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Only a pressure greater than the osmotic pressure of seawater can push pure water backwards through the membrane. In ordinary osmosis, water moves through a semipermeable membrane from the dilute side to the concentrated side.

Its careful restoration earned the Award of Merit in UNESCO's Asia-Pacific Awards for Cultural Heritage Conservation, 2017. The Sri Ranganathaswamy Temple stands on Srirangam, an island in the Kaveri near Tiruchirappalli in Tamil Nadu.

Cartagena is a port city on Colombia's Caribbean coast, where talks on the biosafety protocol were held in 1999. The Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety is a supplementary agreement to the Convention on Biological Diversity of 1992.

Silver sits near the bottom of the reactivity series and does not combine with oxygen even when heated in air.

INSPIRE-MANAK is the school-level part of INSPIRE. INSPIRE is run by the Department of Science and Technology to draw young talent into science.

All three features match the Dw type of Köppen's scheme, found mainly over north-eastern Asia. In the Dw climate, an intense high-pressure system, the Siberian anticyclone, builds up over the frozen land in winter and sends cold, dry winds outward.

An aphid is a sap-sucking insect pest of crops, so it is the target of biocontrol, not an agent of it.

These records preserve petitions that women sent to the panchayat seeking redress. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries village panchayats settled disputes and punished misconduct.

He won gold in the men's javelin F46 class at Rio 2016 with a world record throw of 63.97 m. Devendra Jhajharia, from Churu in Rajasthan, lost his left arm to an electric shock as a child.

Bacteria on the floor break down the urea in urine and release ammonia, which has a sharp, pungent smell. Urea, CO(NH2)2, is the main nitrogenous waste of humans.

SPARSH stands for Scholarship for Promotion of Aptitude and Research in Stamps as a Hobby. The scheme was launched by the Department of Posts under the Ministry of Communications in 2017.

CAATSA stands for Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act, a US federal law of 2017. The US Congress passed CAATSA in July 2017 and President Donald Trump signed it in August 2017.

The UN World Tourism Organization chose India to host the official World Tourism Day celebrations of 27 September 2019. World Tourism Day is observed every year on 27 September.

It is very cold, chemically inert and cheap, which makes it the standard coolant for preserving cells and tissues. Liquid nitrogen boils at about −196 °C. At such low temperatures the chemical and enzyme activity inside cells almost stops, so tissues can be kept unchanged for years.

Christopher Nolan's film on the father of the atomic bomb was named Best Picture at the 96th Academy Awards in March 2024.

The Earth is slightly flattened at the poles, and the poles themselves are points, not lines. Because the Earth is an oblate spheroid, a degree of latitude is a little shorter at the equator, about 110.6 km, than near the poles, about 111.7 km.

Both statements describe how nucleases are used as tools of recombinant DNA technology. Nucleases are enzymes that break the phosphodiester bonds of DNA.

Tritium is the only radioactive isotope of hydrogen; its nucleus is unstable and decays by giving out beta particles. Hydrogen has three natural isotopes, all with one proton but different numbers of neutrons.

The National Mission on Edible Oils - Oil Palm (NMEO-OP), approved in August 2021, gives special focus to these two areas because their high rainfall and humid climate suit oil palm.

RCEP is a free trade agreement built around ASEAN and its FTA partners, and India chose to stay out of it.