Discoveries & Inventions
- The purity of Milk is determined by
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Lactometer is used to check purity of milk. The specific gravity of milk does not give a conclusive indication of its composition since milk contains a variety of substances that are either heavier or lighter than water. The device works on the principle of Archimedes’s principle that a solid suspended in a fluid will be buoyed up by a force equal to the weight of the fluid displaced.
Correct Option: B
Lactometer is used to check purity of milk. The specific gravity of milk does not give a conclusive indication of its composition since milk contains a variety of substances that are either heavier or lighter than water. The device works on the principle of Archimedes’s principle that a solid suspended in a fluid will be buoyed up by a force equal to the weight of the fluid displaced.
- Radioactivity was discovered by
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Antoine Henri Becquerel, a French physicist, was the discoverer of radioactivity along with Marie Sklodowska-Curie and Pierre Curie, for which all three won the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics. Radioactivity refers to the particles which are emitted from nuclei as a result of nuclear instability.
Correct Option: B
Antoine Henri Becquerel, a French physicist, was the discoverer of radioactivity along with Marie Sklodowska-Curie and Pierre Curie, for which all three won the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics. Radioactivity refers to the particles which are emitted from nuclei as a result of nuclear instability.
- The study of Drugs and their action is known as
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Pharmacology is the study of drugs. It involves examining the interactions of chemical substances with living systems, with a view to understanding the properties of drugs and their actions, including the interactions between drug molecules and drug receptors and how these interactions elicit an effect.
Correct Option: C
Pharmacology is the study of drugs. It involves examining the interactions of chemical substances with living systems, with a view to understanding the properties of drugs and their actions, including the interactions between drug molecules and drug receptors and how these interactions elicit an effect.
- Blood groups were discovered by
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The ABO blood group system is widely credited to have been discovered by the Austrian scientist Karl Landsteiner, who identified the O, A, and B blood types in 1900. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1930 for his work.
Correct Option: A
The ABO blood group system is widely credited to have been discovered by the Austrian scientist Karl Landsteiner, who identified the O, A, and B blood types in 1900. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1930 for his work.
- Trie concept of “Green House Gases” was postulated by
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The theory that gases in the atmosphere might increase Planet Earth’s temperature was first postulated by Joseph Fourier in 1827, a scientist who also seems to have coined the term “greenhouse gases.” But it wasn’t until 1896 that a research chemist by the name of Svante Arrhenius quantified the greenhouse gas theory and apparently coined the term “greenhouse effect.”
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The theory that gases in the atmosphere might increase Planet Earth’s temperature was first postulated by Joseph Fourier in 1827, a scientist who also seems to have coined the term “greenhouse gases.” But it wasn’t until 1896 that a research chemist by the name of Svante Arrhenius quantified the greenhouse gas theory and apparently coined the term “greenhouse effect.”