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  • The term potash has more than one meaning. In a narrow sense, it refers ... Potash has been used since antiquity in the manufacture of glass, ...
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  • Feldspar is the name of a group of rock-forming minerals that make ... Feldspar is derived from the German Feld (field) and Spat (a rock ...
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  • occur when there are too many protons in the nucleus of an atom and insufficient ... This process leaves the atom of the daughter element in an excited ...
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  • wherein one set of substances, called the reactants, is converted into ... The reactants and products are shown using their chemical formulas ...
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  • The Kelvin scale is a thermodynamic (absolute) temperature scale. ... It can be shown from the laws of thermodynamics that absolute zero ...
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  • Umam) (c. 1500 - December 20, 1524) was the last ruler and king of the ... 1960, and is commemorated on February 20, on the anniversary of his death. ...
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  • The word "acid" comes from the Latin acidus meaning "sour ... An acid (often represented by the generic formula HA) is any substance ...
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  • areas of geometry. Intuitively, curvature is the amount by which a geometric ... The primordial example of extrinsic curvature is that of a circle ...
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  • In mathematics, the concept of a curve tries to capture the intuitive ... The term curve is also used in ways making it almost synonymous with ...
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  • Joris-Karl Huysmans; he is most famous for the novel À rebours. His style ... Huysmans," using an approximation of the Dutch equivalent of his forenames ...
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  • In physics, thermal conductivity, k, is the property of a material ... Conduction is the most significant means of heat transfer in a solid ...
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  • Neon (chemical symbol Ne, atomic number 10) is the fourth most abundant ... Neon (from the Greek word νέος, meaning "new") was discovered ...
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  • In mathematics, the parabola (from the Greek word παραβολή ... A particular case arises when the plane is tangent to the conical ...
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  • The gas constant (also known as the molar, universal, or ideal gas ... Denoted by the symbol R, the value of the gas constant is: ...
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  • of considerable accomplishment, avoiding the overly pro-Slavic style of ... Tolstoy was born in Saint Petersburg to the famous family of Count ...
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  • of air or aerial acid) is a weak acid with the formula H2CO3. It is formed ... The presence of carbonic acid in the blood and other body fluids helps ...
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  • In geology, the term crust is used for the outermost solid shell of ... Earth has the best characterized and perhaps the most complex crust ...
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  • was a Hungarian-born sociologist, one of the founding fathers of classical ... Hungary, which is now Hungary. He was the only child of a Hungarian ...
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  • #039;s ability to properly metabolize the sugar galactose. The disease ... Much more serious than lactose intolerance, which prevents the body ...
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  • Astatine (chemical symbol At, atomic number 85) is the rarest naturally ... The total amount of astatine in the Earth's crust has been estimated ...
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