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Nanotechnology is used for

  1. storing hydrogen for fuel cell powered cars

  2. reducing power loss in electric transmission wires

  3. improving the performance of batteries

  4. All of these

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Correct Option: D
Explanation:

 All the given options are the uses of nanotechnology.

What is 'buckyball' that is used in nanotechnology?

  1. A carbon molecule (C60)

  2. Collapse of X-rays in circular form

  3. Plastic explosives nanoparticle (C4)

  4. Colony of probes

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Correct Option: A

In India, the Centre for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (CNSNT) is located at

  1. Bangalore

  2. Delhi

  3. Chennai

  4. Thiruvananthapuram

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

The Centre for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (CNSNT) is located at Chennai in India.

The first 'Nanotech Conference & Expo 2012' was held in ________________.

  1. Boston, Massachusetts

  2. Santa clara, California

  3. Houston, Texas

  4. Anaheim, California

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Correct Option: B

Which of the following scientists made a claim at California Technical Institute, that" There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom"?

  1. Richard P. Feynman

  2. Ed Regis

  3. K. Eric Drexler

  4. Ralph Merkle

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Correct Option: A

In molecular nanotechnology, which term is used for possibility of badly or maliciously designed self-assembling structures that could get out of control, and destroy or disassemble all structures they encounter in their blind quest to replicate?

  1. Blue Goo

  2. Green Goo

  3. Red Goo

  4. Gray Goo

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Correct Option: D

In which of the following instruments is nanotechnology applied?

  1. Telescope

  2. Microscope

  3. Stethoscope

  4. Thermometer

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Nanotechnology is applied in microscopes.

What is the length scale used in nanotechnology?

  1. Size of the order of 10–9 m

  2. Size of the order of 10–8 m

  3. Size of the order of 10–7 m

  4. Size of the order of 10–6 m

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:

The length scale used in nanotechnologythe length scale used in nanotechnology is size of the order of 10–9 m.

The India's first magazine on Nanotechnology- Nano Digest is published in

  1. Chennai

  2. Hyderabad

  3. Delhi

  4. Thiruvananthapuram

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Correct Option: B

Which of the following correctly defines nanofabrication?

  1. The term related to design and manufacture of devices with dimensions measured in nanometers.

  2. The colouring of fabric with nano based dyes.

  3. The building of metal structures by cutting, bending, and assembling processes with nano based tools.

  4. None of these

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Correct Option: A

The Pioneer Awards in Nanotechnology is presented by

  1. National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI)

  2. Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

  3. Nanoscale Science, Engineering and Technology committee (NSET)

  4. Centre for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (CNSNT)

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Correct Option: B

Which famous personality warned of the "risks" of nanomachines taking over the world like "grey goo"?

  1. Albert Einstein

  2. Prince Charles

  3. John Lennon

  4. E. Eric Drexler

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Correct Option: B

Who is known as ‘Godfather of Nanotechnology’?

  1. Richard Smalley

  2. K. Eric Drexler

  3. Sajeev John

  4. Pallab Bhattacharya

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Kim Eric Drexler is an American engineer, best known for popularizing the potential of molecular nanotechnology, from the 1970s and 1980s. His 1991 doctoral thesis at Massachusetts Institute of Technology was revised and published as the book Nanosystems: Molecular Machinery Manufacturing and Computation (1992), which received the Association of American Publishers award for Best Computer Science Book of 1992.

What are nanofluids?

  1. Fluids which are filled in nanosize devices

  2. Mixture of different fluids in nano quantities

  3. Fluids with suspensions of solid nano-particles

  4. None of these

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Nanofluids are engineered colloidal suspensions of nanoparticles in a base fluid. The nanoparticles used in nanofluids are typically made of metals, oxides, carbides or carbon nanotubes.

Who coined the term “Robotics”?

  1. Isaac Assimov

  2. Gregory Moss

  3. James Smith

  4. Ronald Mare

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word robotics was first used in print by Isaac Asimov in his science fiction short story "Liar!" published in May 1941 in Astounding Science Fiction.

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