Electronic grade silicon must be at least is 99.9999999% pure. Also referred to as nine-nines or 9N, this level of purity means that only one in a billion atoms is allowed to be something other than silicon.
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Blue LEDs are being used in refrigerators to keep food fresh as they have a strong anti-bacterial effect.
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If we were to look at the sky with a radio telescope tuned to 408 MHz, the sky would appear radically different from what we see in visible light. Instead of seeing point-like stars, we would see distant pulsars, star-forming regions, and supernova remnants would dominate the night sky.
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According to one study, as little as 30 minutes of gardening can dramatically improve a man’s sex life. Weeding, digging, or mowing the lawn for 30 minutes almost halved a man’s risk of impotence.
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The Thulean Route, also known as the North American Land Bridge (NALB), was a volcanic Thulean plateau that arose around 56 million years ago. It stretched from Greenland to the British Isles, connecting North America with Eurasia.
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Humans accidentally created a protective bubble around Earth. Decades of use of very low frequency (VLF) radio communications have resulted in an artificial cocoon that could help protect the planet from solar flares and radiation particles.
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If Earth’s history were condensed into 24 hours, life would’ve appeared at 4am, land plants at 10:24 pm, dinosaur extinction at 11:41 pm and human history would’ve begun at 11:58:43 pm.
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