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Giovanni Battista Venturi, a Common card
Giovanni Battista Venturi was an Italian physicist, Catholic priest, savant, man of letters, diplomat and historian of science.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 56
- DEF
- 36
- Power
- 92
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 6,100
Power 92 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 35 % of WikiCards cards.
Giovanni Battista Venturi quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Giovanni Battista Venturi card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Because of this discovery, he is the ______ for the Venturi effect, Venturi tube, Venturi flow meter, and the Venturi pump.
Answer
eponym. Because of this discovery, he is the eponym for the Venturi effect, Venturi tube, Venturi flow meter, and the Venturi pump. From the Giovanni Battista Venturi article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Lyman-alpha emitter. Lyman-alpha emitter 62 · Giovanni Battista Venturi 56 · Edward Raymond Turner 53 · Hino Rainbow 49 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- He was the discoverer of the Venturi effect, which was described in 1797 in his Recherches Experimentales sur le Principe de la Communication Laterale du Mouvement dans les Fluides appliqué a l'Explication de Differens Phenomènes Hydrauliques, translated into English by William Nicholson as "Experimental Inquiries Concerning the Principle of the Lateral Communication of a Motion in Fluids," and…
- Because of this discovery, he is the eponym for the Venturi effect, Venturi tube, Venturi flow meter, and the Venturi pump.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Giovanni Battista Venturi article was read about 6,100 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 56 and blocks with 36: each hit it takes is cut by 14 %.
How to get Giovanni Battista Venturi
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Giovanni Battista Venturi (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Rijksmuseum, CC0, Wikimedia Commons.
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