Railway RRB 2016: General Awareness Test – Day 12

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There are 8 allotropes of carbon divided in crystalline and amorphous forms. Diamond is crystalline form of carbon.

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According to the Coinage Act, 1906, the Government of India has the sole right to mint coins. GOI supplies the coins to Reserve Bank of India which then circulates the coins.

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The colored part of the eye is called the iris. It controls light levels inside the eye similar to the aperture on a camera. The round opening in the center of the iris is called the pupil. Iris is responsible for controlling the diameter and size of the pupil and thus the amount of light reaching the retina.

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A goitre (sometimes spelt “goiter”) is an abnormal swelling of the thyroid gland that causes a lump to form in the neck which occurs by the deficiency of Iodine.

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Isostasy is the state of gravitational equilibrium between Earth’s crust and mantle such that the crust “floats” at an elevation that depends on its thickness and density of underlying roots of the low density of the mountain.
Tectonics is concerned with the processes which control the structure and properties of the Earth’s crust, and its evolution through time.

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Glimpses of World History, a book published by Jawaharlal Nehru in 1934, is a panoramic sweep of the history of humankind.

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Batch processing is the execution of a series of programs on a computer without manual intervention. It is the execution of a series of programs on a set or “batch” of inputs, rather than a single input.

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Solids are packed together tighter than liquids and gases and solids are more dense than gases also, so Sound travels faster in solids than in gases

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Speaker of Lok Sabha decides that if a finance bill is a money bill or not under article 110.

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Luminous flux is measure of the total amount of visible light emitted by a source

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Venus is very bright. Sunlight is easily reflected by acidic clouds that blanket the planet’s atmosphere.

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Socialism is an economic system characterized by social ownership or control of the means of production and cooperative management of the economy.

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As the length increases and the cross sectional area decreases, the electrical resistance of the wire also rises.