Material Science

Mohs Hardness Scale

Polymers 101: Exploring the Building Blocks of Modern Materials 🔬🧪

Introduction Polymers are everywhere! From the plastic containers in your kitchen to the rubber tires on your car,…

Periodic Table Stories: Elements That Shaped Chemical Engineering 🔬🧪

Introduction The Periodic Table is more than just a chart of elements—it’s a history book of science and…

Natural gas

Natural gas, colourless highly flammable gaseous hydrocarbon consisting primarily of methane and ethane. It is a type of petroleum that commonly occurs in association with crude…

Sintering

Sintering, the welding together of small particles of metal by applying heat below the melting point. The process may be used…

Synthetic diamond

Synthetic diamond, man-made diamond that is usually produced by subjecting graphite to very high temperatures and pressures. Synthetic diamond resembles natural diamond in most…

Fracture

Fracture, in mineralogy, appearance of a surface broken in directions other than along cleavage planes. There are several kinds…

Cleavage

Cleavage, tendency of a crystalline substance to split into fragments bounded by plane surfaces. Although cleavage surfaces are seldom as…

Intelligent design

Intelligent design (ID), argument intended to demonstrate that living organisms were created in more or less their present…

Intermetallic compound

Intermetallic compound, any of a class of substances composed of definite proportions of two or more elemental metals,…