Science FAQ
What Is A Biogas?
I am new to Blurtit and would like to ask questions but I am not sure how to steep in the ask question section on the site itself. Biogas refers to a gas which is produced by the biological breakdown of life matter in the absence of oxygen. Biogas is mostly...
What is a biotic environment?
The biotic environment concerns all kinds of living things which an organism comes into contact with. The place where on earth an organism lives is its habitat which may be a pond, a stream, a river, a forest or a desert. An organism in any habitat is never an independent...
What is a bitmap?
A Bitmap also known as a raster graphics image or digital image, is primarily a data file, which represents a rectangular grid of pixels, or colors which is displayed either on a computer monitor, quality newspaper or other display piece of equipment. These pixels are determined by the RGB color...
What Is A Black Hole And How Is It Formed?
A black hole is formed when stars are 10 and 15 times more bigger than the star and expload. A Black hole is a theoretical concept of a Supernova that implodes upon itself, that being instead of exploding and scattering out to the ends...
What is a Black Hole?
A black hole is a region of spacetime that nothing, including light, can escape. It is impossible to see a Black Hole because they are Black, but people still believe they exist even though you can't see them. If a supergiant star explodes into a supernova, the unwanted core forms...
What Is A Black-hole?
Black hole is something whose existence in space has been theorize by majority of the space scientists. According to the scientists and researchers, black hole is an extremely dense body having very strong gravitational field so that nil can be escaped from its zone. This body is completely dark and black...
What is a blind spot?
Retina is positioned at the back of the eyeball where light rays are projected. Retina contains two types of light-sensitive cell – cones and rods. Once stimulated by the light, cones and rods convey neural message to bipolar cells. These bipolar cells after stimulate ganglion cells. Ganglion cells (actually axons...
What Is A Blizzard?
Blizzard is a very heavy snowstorm with glorious winds. According to National Weather Service, a technical definition of Blizzard is, a violent snowstorm next to winds blowing at a minimum speed of 35 miles (56 kilometers) per hour and visibility of less than one-quarter mile (400 meters) for three hours. Apart...
What is a blue moon?
A blue moon is when you have two full moons in one month. This is a misunderstanding dating from the early 1900's. When within are four full moons in a season, the third of the four was differenced in the Maine Farmer's Almanac by printing it surrounded by blue. It's...
What is a Blue Ray?
The correct spelling of this term is blu-ray, without the 'e'. A blu-ray disc is abbreviated as BD. It is a high-density optical disc format. It has the dimensions to store a large amount of high-definition video clips and data. It uses a blue-violet laser beam to read and...
What is a boer?
Boer is a word that describes a farmer and can trace its origin in the Dutch and Afrikaans vernacular. These farmers are considered to be the descendents of Afrikaans – speaking pastoralists who were the resident of Eastern Cape frontier in South Africa and the word can also be used to...
What Is A Bog?
Please explain in details A bog is an area of ground that is impressively wet and usually has a lot of peat, or weedy bits and pieces in it. They can be man made or formed just from rain marine falling in a depression in the ground. Because of the decomposed plants...
What is a Bongo?
A bongo is a large, brightly colored antelope that is usually found in the dense forest of crucial Africa. It is shy, swift and elusive and it usually lives and thrives in small groups or in pairs. It stands almost 51 inches tall (1.3 meters) at the shoulders and has an...
What is a bop deficit and how can it be corrected?
I want to find out if there are any solutions to the current BOP deficit in Zimbabwe BOP means Balance of Payments. It funds that how much amount is due on a country and how much amount it has to take from others....
What Is A Boyle?
The pressure and volume of a gas are inversely proportional to each other when the temperature and number of molecules of a gas are kept constant. When the the temperature of a gas is constant and we increase the pressure, the volume of the gas will diminish. This law is known...
What Is A Bunsen Burner And Who Invented It?
A Bunsen burner is a small burner that is widely used in laboratories – from school labs to top research labs and university. It is powered by gas and consists of a metal base and a vertical tube about 12 cm long. The flame is lit...
What Is A Burrow?
A burrow is a hole or tunnel that is dug into the soil. It is usually done by animals, so that they get some kind of place to live into or as an offshoot of locomotion. These burrows are a house to various animals against predation and revelation to...
What is a burst rumpus?
It's an electronic noise, occurs mostly in semiconductors, this clatter is also known as popcorn noise, following website would give the detailed information: en.wikipedia.org
What is a bushbuck?
A bushbuck is a small to medium-sized antelope and found throughout Southern Africa. Adult males stand about 80 centimetres at the shoulder, while females are marginally smaller growing to around 70 centimetres at the shoulder when reaching adulthood. Only male bushbucks own horns, and these can grow to an impressive 50...
What is a buttercup?
Buttercup is a plant belonging to the Ranunculus family. These herbs are distinguished for their white or yellow flowers replete near pistils and leaves which resemble crow's feet. These plants grow abundantly in the North Temperate Zone and the icy regions throughout the year. The Ranunculus family connections including...