…the ratio of the gas constant to Avogadro’s constant, equal to 1.381 × 10−23 joules per kelvin in the case where the number of molecules is equal to Avogadro’s number…
…the SI base unit of thermodynamic temperature, equal in magnitude to the degree Celsius…
…the chemical element of atomic number 19, a soft silvery-white reactive metal of the alkali-metal group…
…any of a group of vitamins found mainly in green leaves and essential for the blood-clotting process. They include phylloquinone (vitamin K1) and menaquinone (vitamin K2)…
…(1906–2001), Indian novelist and short-story writer; full name Rasipuram Krishnaswamy Narayan. His best-known novels are set in an imaginary small Indian town, and portray its inhabitants in an affectionate yet ironic manner; they include Swami and Friends (1935) and The Man-Eater of Malgudi (1961)…
…(b.1965), English novelist; full name Joanne Kathleen Rowling. She created the highly successful Harry Potter children’s books, the first volume of which, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, was published in 1997…
…(1874–1936), English essayist, novelist, and critic; full name Gilbert Keith Chesterton. His novels include The Napoleon of Notting Hill (1904) and a series of detective stories featuring Father Brown, a priest with a talent for crime detection…
…(1859–1927), English novelist and dramatist; full name Jerome Klapka Jerome. He is chiefly remembered for his humorous novel Three Men in a Boat (1889)…
…(1920–2005), Indian statesman, President 1997–2002; full name Kocheril Raman Narayanan. A member of the Congress party, Narayanan served as Vice President 1992-7…
…day care with some educational content for children younger than five, provided by elementary schools or preschools…
…a white crystalline compound used as a low-calorie artificial sweetener, typically in the form of a potassium salt (acesulfame-K)…
…the division between the Cretaceous and Tertiary periods, about 65 million years ago…
…a rough-coated grazing antelope with pointed hoofs and long horns, found in swampy grassland in southern Africa and Sudan…
…(551–479 bc), Chinese philosopher; Latinized name of Kongfuze (K’ung Fu-tzu) ‘Kong the master’. His ideas about the importance of practical moral values, collected by his disciples in the Analects, formed the basis of the philosophy of Confucianism…
…a white crystalline compound used as a low-calorie artificial sweetener, typically in the form of a potassium salt (acesulfame-K)…
…(1908–2006), Canadian-born American economist. He was well known for his criticism of consumerism and of the power of large multinational corporations…
…(551–479 bc), Chinese philosopher; Latinized name of Kongfuze (K’ung Fu-tzu) ‘Kong the master’. His ideas about the importance of practical moral values, collected by his disciples in the Analects, formed the basis of the philosophy of Confucianism…
