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Trivia Questions

HDTV, which uses more lines to give clearer pictures, stands for this

GOES, INSAT & METEOSAT are satellites used for this purpose

Every year Australia moves 2 in. away from this nearest U.S. state & Japan moves 3 in. closer

France derives a higher percentage of its electricity from this energy source than any other country

Term for the least amount of fuel needed to keep up a chain reaction in a reactor

Carbohydrates, such as sugars & starch, contain these 3 elements

Pu doesn't refer to the smell of a reactor but to this fuel in it

In nuclear fission mass from the neutron and the bombarded nucleus become energy as per this equation

J.J. Thompson developed a cathode-ray tube with a screen to measure velocity of these particles

A space telescope to be launched by the space shuttle in 1990 is named for this 20th century astronomer