and the surface area over which the two materials contact. Materials that wet against each other tend to have a larger contact area than those that do...

mineral hydrates that are not very water-soluble. This allows setting in wet conditions or under water and further protects the hardened material from...

convex meniscus, whereas the meniscus of water is concave. Mercury will not wet the glass, unlike water and many other liquids, and if the glass is tipped...

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concept of force was basically qualitative, but other authors reject this. Archimedes corrected Aristotle's theory that bodies move towards their natural resting...

has its origins in Ancient Greece with the writings of Aristotle and Archimedes (see History of classical mechanics and Timeline of classical mechanics)...

swords, daggers, spears, and maces. According to a recent hypothesis, the Archimedes' screw may have been used by Sennacherib, King of Assyria, for the water...

concentrate light momentum-enhanced solar sail Tradition states that Archimedes used a large array of mirrors to burn Roman ships during an attack on...

as available fuels, physical setting, and weather. Climatic cycles with wet periods that create substantial fuels, followed by drought and heat, often...

aether, an influential philosophy that would dominate for centuries. Archimedes (287–212 BC) designed a planetarium that could calculate the motions of...