Nouns denoting natural phenomena
- food chain
- (ecology) a community of organisms where each member is eaten in turn by another member
- equatorial current
- any of the ocean currents that flow westward at the equator
- sun-ray
- a ray of artificial ultraviolet light from a sunray lamp
- rest energy
- the energy equivalent to the mass of a particle at rest in an inertial frame of reference; equal to the rest mass times the square of the speed of light
- atmospheric phenomenon
- a physical phenomenon associated with the atmosphere
- polarisation
- the phenomenon in which waves of light or other radiation are restricted in direction of vibration
- gun smoke
- smoke created by the firing of guns
- magnetic field
- the lines of force surrounding a permanent magnet or a moving charged particle
- color force
- (physics) the interaction that binds protons and neutrons together in the nuclei of atoms; mediated by gluons
- van der Waal's forces
- relatively weak attraction between neutral atoms and molecules arising from polarization induced in each particle by the presence of other particles
- mirage
- an optical illusion in which atmospheric refraction by a layer of hot air distorts or inverts reflections of distant objects
- moment of inertia
- the tendency of a body to resist angular acceleration
- gentle breeze
- wind moving 8-12 knots; 3 on the Beaufort scale
- load
- a deposit of valuable ore occurring within definite boundaries separating it from surrounding rocks
- blackbody radiation
- the electromagnetic radiation that would be radiated from an ideal black body; the distribution of energy in the radiated spectrum of a black body depends only on temperature and is determined by Planck's radiation law
- response
- a result
- engine
- something used to achieve a purpose
- electric current
- a flow of electricity through a conductor
- Brownian movement
- the random motion of small particles suspended in a gas or liquid
- alpha radiation
- the radiation of alpha particles during radioactive decay
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