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Thursday, 27 November 2025
13 facts about Deimos
13 facts about Deimos
A smaller moon of Mars
Deimos is a smaller and more distant Martian moon. Its diameter is only 12.4 km, although it is difficult to talk about the diameter in the case of su ...

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Phobos
It is the closest orbiting moon in the Solar System.
It orbits Mars faster than it rotates, completing an orbit in 7 hours and 39 minutes.
Mushrooms
Mushrooms are an essential component of the circulation of matter in nature, they are decomposers - the last link in the food chain.
As the only organisms have the ability to break down lignin and are of great importance in the break ...
Tears
Tears are primarily made of water.
They also consist of fatty oils, salt, and proteins.
Nicotine
Tobacco, whose leaves are the source of nicotine, was cultivated by people living in America two thousand years before its discovery by Columbus.
It came to Europe in the 16th century and both tobacco and the nicotine it contained were originally ...
Moon
The Moon's core consists of a solid part made mainly of iron and a semi-liquid part surrounding it.
The solid core has a diameter of 240 km and the semi-liquid core has a diameter of about 330 km.
Mushrooms
Fungi are a separate kingdom, more closely related to animals than to plants.
This is established on the basis of phyologenesis (origin), biochemistry and anatomy. Fungi are reco ...
Nicotine
Nicotine is an organic chemical compound (C10H14N2) from the group of pyridine alkaloids.
Under natural conditions, nicotine occurs in the leaves and roots of noble tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum), which is most often used in the tobacco industry. The leaves contain 1 to 3 percent of nicotine.
Anorexia Nervosa
The earliest medical descriptions of the disease are attributed to English physician Richard Morton in 1689.
However, it was not until the late 19th century that mental anorexia nervosa was widely accepted by ...
Silver
Silver compounds are used to silver mirrors and to produce explosives (e.g. silver acetylides).
They are also used in analytical chemistry, e.g. to detect aldehydes (Tollens test).
Cosmos
The basic and most widely accepted theory of the origin of the universe is the Big Bang theory.
This theory assumes that the universe began at a single point the size of a pinhead, which, as a res ...