ranga
Britishnoun
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Origin of ranga
from orang-utan
Example Sentences
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A U of R statement did not say whether the scientist, Ranga Dias, resigned or was fired.
From Science Magazine
Ranga Dias of the University of Rochester gained worldwide acclaim with a pair of papers in 2020 and 2023 in Nature describing two compounds that appeared to conduct electricity without resistance near ambient temperature.
From Science Magazine
In the 8 March issue of Nature, researchers led by Ranga Dias, a physicist at the University of Rochester, reported making a blue crystalline compound that when squeezed to moderate pressures turned red and exhibited a long-sought property: It conducted electricity without resistance at room temperature.
From Science Magazine
Led by physicist/engineer Ranga P. Dias, they reported in an article in Nature the discovery of a room-temperature superconductor — a material that can conduct electricity with no loss of efficiency from friction and no production of heat.
From Los Angeles Times
It was the second superconductor paper involving Ranga P. Dias, a professor of mechanical engineering and physics at the University of Rochester in New York State, to be retracted by the journal in just over a year.
From New York Times
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