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Why do the hydrogen-based jet engines create propulsion?
The heating of the water vapor cannot compensate for this
But it can, and it does.
The constant-pressure adiabatic flame temperature approximates the temperature resulting from a flame in an open ...
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Is the electron pair in an orbital entangled?
Yes, they are. The search terms that you're looking for are "singlet state" (in atomic physics) or "Bell pair" (in quantum information). It would be rather difficult to extricate ...
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How to calculate the thickness of ice formed on a lake with a known temperature gradient?
Here is a partial answer that should get you started.
As the comments said, assuming steady state, between the 1.5m we either have ice or water, fixed "positions". Furthermore, $\frac{dq}{...
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Why is the change in energy between products and reactants equal to the heat of reaction?
A fundamental law of nature is that energy is conserved. If it wasn't produced as heat, where would the extra energy go?
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Where does the activation energy for ATP come from?
I've been researching this question for a while now and here is my crack at it:
So, ATP does actually break down on its own. It takes a few hours for all of it to break down, but we can see it in dead ...
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