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table tennis

(Encyclopedia)table tennis, game played, usually indoors, by two or four players; it is more or less a miniature form of lawn tennis. It is also called Ping-Pong, after the trade name that a manufacturer adopted (c...

water table

(Encyclopedia)water table, the top zone of soil and rock in which all voids are saturated with water. The level of the water table varies with topography and climate, and depends on the degree to which the groundwa...

Round Table

(Encyclopedia)Round Table, in Arthurian legend, the table at which King Arthur and his knights held court. It was allegedly fashioned at the behest of Arthur to prevent quarrels among the knights over precedence. A...

periodic table

(Encyclopedia)CE5 periodic table, chart of the elements arranged according to the periodic law discovered by Dmitri I. Mendeleev and revised by Henry G. J. Moseley. In the periodic table the elements are arrange...

Cretaceous period

(Encyclopedia)Cretaceous period krĭtāˈshəs [key], third and last period of the Mesozoic era of geologic time (see Geologic Timescale, tablegeologic timescale, table), lasting from approximately 144 to 65 millio...

Periodic Table of the Elements (table)

(Encyclopedia)Periodic Table of the Elements (showing atomic number and atomic symbol; click on atomic symbol for more detailed information) Lanthanide Series(Rare Earth Elements) Actinide Series(Radioactive Rar...

Elementary Particles (table)

(Encyclopedia)Elementary Particles Leptons Quarks1 Gauge Bosons Some Sample Hadrons For each of these particles, except the photon, gluon, and Z-boson, there is an antiparticle with the same mass and op...

Chinese Dynasties (table)

(Encyclopedia)Chinese Dynasties

Morse Code (table)

(Encyclopedia)Morse Code International Morse Code American Morse CodeThe American Morse differs in the following symbols: ...

Nobel Prizes (table)

(Encyclopedia)Nobel Prizes