Six STEM Tweets #63

Lunar Firefly, hand-drawn Radium. Raman effect and more

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This newsletter is my way of sharing interesting science-related news with my curious friends. I enjoy finding science and math connections in our world.

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- Harshal (@hschhaya on X/Twitter)

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This is issue #63. Here’s some interesting things about 63:

  • 63 is the sum of the first six powers of 2 (20 + 21 + ... 25 )

  • It is a palindromic number is base 2 (binary) and base 8 (octal)

    • Binary: 1111112

    • Octal: 778

  • +63, telephone country code for the Philippines

  • 63 is the atomic number of Europium, a silvery-white metal of the lanthanide series. Europium is the most chemically reactive, least dense, and softest of the lanthanides.

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Harshal