Glaciers, A source of fresh water!

Unaware of the nature. We have no idea that, about 67 to 75 percent of the fresh water (Drinkable water) is in the glaciers. Glacier (Click on the word to hear the pronunciation) is the french word and often call river of ice, because the word la glace in french means ice. glaciers are the frozen thick mass of the snow which forms over the years. It forms when a snow remains at same location long enough to transform in to ice. What makes glaciers unique is their ability to flow. Due to sheer mass, glaciers flow like very slow rivers. Glaciers are of different sizes. Years of compression gradually make the ice denser over time, forcing out the tiny air pockets between crystals. When glacier ice becomes extremely dense, the ice absorbs a small amount of red light, leaving a bluish tint in the reflected light, which is what we see. When glacier ice is white, that usually means that there are many tiny air bubbles still in the ice.

Image: Glacier

Here are the eleven facts of glaciers that will amaze you!

1. North America's longest glacier is the Bering Glacier in Alaska, measuring 190 kilometer (118 miles) long.

2. The Kutiah Glacier in Pakistan holds the record for the fastest glacial surge. In 1953, it raced more than 12 kilometer in three months, averaging about 112 meters (367 feet) per day.

3. Antarctic ice is up to 4.7 kilometer thick in some areas.

4. Approximately 10 percent of the Earth is covered by glaciers; during the last Ice Age, they covered one-third of the Earth’s surface.

5. Glaciers are found in 47 countries.

6. A glacier can range in length from the equivalent of a football field to more than 100 miles.

7. A single glacier ice crystal can grow to be as large as a baseball.

8. Alaska is estimated to have more than 100,000 glaciers. Most remain unnamed.

9. Glacier ice is the largest reservoir of fresh water on the planet, storing an estimated 75 percent of the world’s supply.

10. If all land ice melted, sea level would rise approximately 70 meters (230 feet) worldwide.

11. The Antarctic continent has been at least partially covered by an ice sheet for the past 40 million years.

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Trunk Call: Explained !

What is trunk call?

A long distance call made within country used to call a trunk call.

HOW DID IT WORKED?

A Line Diagram to understand the system

Before STD (Subscriber Trunk dialing) has even started, there were time when there was a middle ground for Phone calls. which connects two person's call, named telephone exchange.

Telephone Exchange station

Closer look at of telephone exchange circuit board

ones you subscribe to the service, the one end of the telephone line connects to your telephone and another end of the line connects to the telephone exchange.

In the early days of telephones, you couldn’t dial a number yourself. You had to call an operator at the telephone exchange of your phone company to connect you for any phone call. Later on, you could make local calls yourself, but had to call the operator to connect you to someone whose phone was connected to a different telephone exchange in the same city or elsewhere. The two telephone exchanges were connected by a trunk line. the trunk line is the bundle of small wires brought together to make a thick single wire. trunk as a word means the main, core, or central part, before subsidiary parts diverge. A tree trunk, not the branches. the line was pretty thick almost like the tree trunk. this was the reason it called trunk line, and call made through trunk line called trunk call.

Telephone Trunk line

Individual circuits in that trunk are not dedicated to a particular subscriber but can be used by any subscriber as and when needed. The number of circuits in such a trunk is less than the number of subscribers connected to the exchange, because not all subscribers are supposed to need a trunk circuit at the same time. If more subscribers would need to use a trunk circuit at the same time than there are circuits in that particular trunk, some of them would get a ‘busy’ signal because all trunk circuits would be in use. This is just the rough information of how it works. The actual system is much more complicated!

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Bonus

Know more:

S.T.D : Subscriber Trunk Dialing

I.S.D : International Subscriber Dialing

P.C.O : Public Call Office

Shampoo or "Champo"? This history event will amaze you! 😆✅

We Shampoo our hair regularly, right? But Do you actually know, what did it actually mean when the word has been started using by British people? When white people from East India Company in 17th century came to India, they wondered when they see a Masseur sitting at the corner of the public road. The masseur always display the bottles of the oils with fragrance. When the massage is finished, customer bend the neck towards the bucket to wash their hair; masseur wash their hair with the foam of Aritha (soap nut).

It was strange for them to believe that the roots of the Aritha tree (soap nut tree) produces foam. White people had never done this before, so they have adopted this new hobby with the word "Champo".Basically this word was pronounced Shampo instead of champo. The dialect difference made this word shampo as time passed. Finally, it became shampoo from Champo. Till the middle of the 19th century shampoo meant massaging and washing the hair with Soap nut foam. In 20th century manufacturer of Europe and America made a product just to wash the hair and not body, called Shampoo. Since then we have believed that the shampoo is the liquid Chemical which is being used to wash our hair. But the reality was totally different back then! Amazing isn't it? This Champo word it self was derived from Sanskrit word chapati which means pressing something. Chapati is something which was taken as a base in Indian Dish. So as you see the process of pressing in a way is the meaning of champo which evolved into word Shampoo.

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Reference:

Almeida, R., 2020.Tracing The Roots Of 25 English Words With Entirely Indian Origins. [online] Homegrown.co.in. Available at: <https://homegrown.co.in/article/44786/tracing-the-roots-of-25-english-words-with-entirely-indian-origins> [Accessed 20 June 2020].