Author: Prof Rajeev Singh
Image Courtesy: Wikimedia Commons BIRTH ANNIVERSARY EXCLUSIVE: ACHARYA PC RAY (2 AUGUST 1861) Scene 1: Two people having a sherbet in a cold drink shop at Bankim Chatterjee Street, Calcutta, talking in a low hush tone. A bearded man draped in a shawl enters, orders a drink and goes inside. Scene 2: A plainclothes man rushes inside the shop, scans it. He finds all three missing and asks the person sitting at the shop counter about their whereabouts. The manager shakes his head nodding in the negative. The man turns around distastefully and goes away. Scene 3: Three people sitting…
Matter is 75% Hydrogen, the most abundant chemical element in the universe. In the context of the planet Earth, Hydrogen is not a direct or a primary source of energy but is produced using a chemical reaction, that is, it is an energy vector. Hydrogen is used as raw material in various industrial or metallurgical processes and as fuel, with a rider that it cannot be obtained from nature in its pure state. This is a big rider and therefore the concept of green misses out, thereby limiting its mass uses. The very method utilized to obtain Hydrogen determines whether…