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Agnes Pockels, a Common card
Agnes Luise Wilhelmine Pockels was a German scientist, whose pioneering research was fundamental in establishing the modern discipline known as surface science, which describes the properties of liquid and solid surfaces and interfaces.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 69
- DEF
- 69
- Power
- 138
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 9,500
Power 138 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 70 % of WikiCards cards.
Agnes Pockels quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Agnes Pockels card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
She devised a surface film balance technique to study the behavior of ______ such as soaps and surfactants at air-liquid interfaces.
Answer
molecules. She devised a surface film balance technique to study the behavior of molecules such as soaps and surfactants at air-liquid interfaces. From the Agnes Pockels article on Wikipedia.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Hannah Fry. Hannah Fry 1,200,000 · Alan Stern 13,000 · Agnes Pockels 9,500 · Gliese 581d 6,900 Wikipedia reads over a year.
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The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Pockels became interested in fundamental research in surface science through observations of soaps and soapy water in her own home while washing dishes.
- She devised a surface film balance technique to study the behavior of molecules such as soaps and surfactants at air-liquid interfaces.
- From these studies, Pockels defined the "Pockels point" which is the minimum area that a single molecule can occupy in monomolecular films.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Agnes Pockels article was read about 9,500 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 69 and blocks with 69: each hit it takes is cut by 28 %.
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Text : Wikipedia, Agnes Pockels (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
