Wood is made termite-resistant by treating it with creosote oil, black oil or other wood preservatives. This is applied in large tanks under pressure to make sure it penetrates the wood deeply. Most termites will die if their supply of moisture is cut off. Funny Logics By treating it with pungent chemicals. By ‘woodpeckering’ the termite.

The term is named after George Eastman (1854-1932), an American photographic inventor and manufacturer. He introduced machine-coated plates, the Kodak camera, paper roll, celluloid roll and daylight-loading films, thereby creating the basic materials for still and motion picture photography. He founded Eastman Kodak Co in 1892. Funny Logics Indian movies inspired by Japanese, Chinese, and Korean films. The colour technology …

Acid rain was first noticed and studied in 1872. The formation of acid rain starts as soon as polluting chemicals namely nitrogen and sulphur oxides emissions from factories and car engines are sent up into the atmosphere. When these pollutants reach the atmosphere, they combine with existing water vapors, oxygen and sunlight. The reaction creates a diluted ‘soup’ of highly …

Photo chromatic glass contains extremely small crystals of silver chloride, silver bromide or silver iodide. Silver chloride is especially sensitive to ultraviolet radiation and splits into silver and chlorine. Silver causes the glass do darken. When the source of light is removed, the reaction gets reversed and the glass comes back to its original colour. Funny Logic Because ‘shady’ characters …

Radio-carbon dating is a method of determining the age of an ancient matter developed by Willard F Libby in 1949, at the University of Chicago. Radio-carbon or carbon-14 is produced in nature and is available in the atmospheric carbon dioxide which enters plants through photo-synthesis. Thus, it also reaches the animals through the food chain. In samples like bones, wood, …

रसोई के उत्तर-पूर्व की ओर हल्के सामान का भंडारण करें, जबकि दक्षिण और पश्चिम की ओर भारी वस्तुओं का। भोजन कक्ष का निर्माण रसोई घर के नजदीक ही करना चाहिए, यथासंभव पूर्व या पश्चिम की तरफ हो। बैठने का आयोजन इस प्रकार हो कि खाने वाले का मुंह दक्षिण की तरफ न हो। वास्तु वास्तविकता में जीवन को दिशा देने …

एक राजा बहुत बड़ा प्रजापालक था, हमेशा प्रजा के हित में प्रयत्नशील रहता था। वह इतना कर्मठ था कि अपना सुख, ऐशो-आराम सब छोड़कर सारा समय जन-कल्याण में ही लगा देता था। यहां तक कि जो मोक्ष का साधन है अर्थात भगवत-भजन, उसके लिए भी वह समय नहीं निकाल पाता था। एक सुबह राजा वन की तरफ भ्रमण करने के …

Looking at everything Haryanvi that has been hitting the silver screen, right from the hallucinating Mr Mandola to the Haryanvi spewing Datto, it seems Haryana and its inimitable dialect is the new flavour of the Bollywood season. The rustic dialect and the original accent ensured that the adorable Tanu and Manu did Return, and that too with a bang. When …

Scientists have found the underlying mechanism of how sleep helps us learn and memorise. A new study suggests that sleeping triggers the synapses in our brain to both strengthen and weaken, which prompts the forgetting, strengthening or modification of our memories in a process known as long-term potentiation (LTP). Researchers led by Sidarta Ribeiro at the Brain Institute of the …

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