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  2. NCERT textbook controversies - Wikipedia

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    The poem Sabse Khatarnak by the Hindi poet Pash was included in the NCERT textbook for 11th standard Hindi students in 2006. In 2017, the BJP government affiliated RSS tried to remove it but failed. [25] [26] The NCERT made two controversial changes to the class XII political science textbook ‘Politics in India Since Independence’ in 2017.

  3. Van de Graaff generator - Wikipedia

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    The Van de Graaff generator was developed, starting in 1929, by physicist Robert J. Van de Graaff at Princeton University, with help from colleague Nicholas Burke. The first model was demonstrated in October 1929. [7] The first machine used an ordinary tin can, a small motor, and a silk ribbon bought at a five-and-dime store. After that, he ...

  4. Electricity - Wikipedia

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    This association gave rise to the English words "electric" and "electricity", which made their first appearance in print in Thomas Browne's Pseudodoxia Epidemica of 1646. [11] Isaac Newton made early investigations into electricity, [12] with an idea of his written down in his book Opticks arguably the beginning of the field theory of the ...

  5. Hall effect - Wikipedia

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    The Hall effect is the production of a potential difference (the Hall voltage) across an electrical conductor that is transverse to an electric current in the conductor and to an applied magnetic field perpendicular to the current.

  6. Hydroponics - Wikipedia

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    Hydroponics is a type of horticulture and a subset of hydroculture which involves growing plants, usually crops or medicinal plants, without soil, by using water-based mineral nutrient solutions in an artificial environment.

  7. Begging the question - Wikipedia

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    The term was translated into English from Latin in the 16th century. The Latin version, petitio principii ' asking for the starting point ' , can be interpreted in different ways. Petitio (from peto ), in the post-classical context in which the phrase arose, means ' assuming ' or ' postulating ' , but in the older classical sense means ...

  8. Electric generator - Wikipedia

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    A generator using permanent magnets (PMs) is sometimes called a magneto, or a permanent magnet synchronous generator (PMSG). Armature: The power-producing component of an electrical machine. In a generator, alternator, or dynamo, the armature windings generate the electric current, which provides power to an external circuit.

  9. Notebook (2019 film) - Wikipedia

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    Notebook is a 2019 Indian Hindi-language romantic drama film directed by Nitin Kakkar and produced by Salman Khan under Salman Khan Films and Murad Khetani and Ashwin Varde under Cine1 Studios. A remake of the 2014 Thai film The Teacher's Diary by Nithiwat Tharathorn , it stars debutantes Zaheer Iqbal and Pranutan Bahl , daughter of actor ...