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unusual facts about Kundt's tube


Kundt's tube

The tube is a transparent horizontal pipe which contains a small amount of a fine powder such as cork dust, talc or Lycopodium.


Beelzebub's tube-nosed bat

It was named "Beelzebub" and "demon" because of its coloration and fierce behavior, alluding the use of the term "Beelzebub" as reference to the underworld in Christian texts.

Daniel Salamanca Urey

A string of devastating defeats on the southern front of the war at the hands of the Paraguayans, who knew the terrain much better than the Bolivians (most of whom hailed from the Altiplano Highlands) precipitated Kundt's replacement by General Enrique PeƱaranda at the end of 1933.

Hilgendorf's tube-nosed bat

The smaller, brown coloured bat Ussuri Tube-nosed Bat is found in Korea, Russia (Far East and Sakhalin), and Japan (Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu, Tsushima and Yakushima).

In Japan they are called 'tengu komori', after the mythical creature called the Tengu.

Keast's tube-nosed fruit bat

The Keast's Tube-nosed Fruit Bat (Nyctimene keasti) is a species of megabat in the Pteropodidae family found in Babar, Tanimbar, and the Kai Islands.


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