Search results for "The Five K's" - New World Encyclopedia
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- chemical formula is C10H16O. It is found in the bark and wood of the camphor ... The word camphor derives from the French word camphre, itself from ...11 KB (1,519 words) - 18:58, 25 November 2023
- oscillations about an equilibrium point. The oscillations may be periodic ... which most people call noise. For example, the vibrational motions of engines ...35 KB (5,669 words) - 18:04, 3 May 2023
- economic thought and his influential book, The Great Transformation. He argued ... Michael Polanyi, chemist and philosopher. The son of a prominent member ...16 KB (2,415 words) - 07:19, 5 October 2022
- and bumpy), and a fine sandpaper rash over the upper body that may spread ... with antibiotics is started, following the full course of prescribed ...11 KB (1,507 words) - 08:16, 17 September 2022
- " His work included development of the concept of anomie, derived ... Jewish immigrant family. Educated in the South Philadelphia High School ...30 KB (4,398 words) - 21:28, 16 April 2023
- Spinach is an annual plant, Spinacia oleracea, of the flowering plant ... a rich source of iron is exaggerated due to the fact that the plant contains ...11 KB (1,686 words) - 21:39, 7 February 2023
- persons based on whether or not they accept the authority of the Vedic scriptures ... Hindu philosophy asserts that it is more important to accept the authority ...8 KB (1,157 words) - 01:27, 11 November 2022
- is a clear, water-insoluble liquid with the typical smell of paint thinners ... The name toluene was derived from the older name toluol that refers ...10 KB (1,406 words) - 03:55, 1 May 2023
- As a member of the angiosperms or flowering plants, monocots (and ... Monocots dominate great parts of the earth and comprise the majority ...8 KB (1,275 words) - 13:12, 10 March 2023
- chemical elements known as halogens. It is the only liquid nonmetallic element ... Bromine is an important resource for the production of a wide range ...10 KB (1,346 words) - 04:33, 22 November 2023
- and luminosity than a main sequence star of the same surface temperature. ... between 10 and 1,000 times that of the Sun.Patrick Moore, "Giant ...9 KB (1,364 words) - 18:58, 21 May 2024
- single-celled amoeboid protists comprising the order Foraminiferida (or Foraminifera ... relationships with algae and some use the chloroplasts from ingested ...14 KB (1,865 words) - 06:19, 1 April 2024
- insulin), is normally readily converted from the essential amino acid phenylalanine ... In humans, the L-isomer of tyrosine, which is the only form that is ...14 KB (1,990 words) - 00:41, 3 May 2023
- Stegosaur is the common name for any of the various extinct, plated ... in 1877. These dinosaurs also reflect upon the changing history of life, ...16 KB (2,303 words) - 17:18, 21 October 2022
- (ZrSiO4), usually contain between one and five percent hafnium. Hafnium and ... Hafnium (Latin Hafnia for "Copenhagen," the hometown of ...10 KB (1,277 words) - 16:40, 21 January 2024
- Tardigrade, or water bear, is any of the various very small, segmented ... Tardigrades reflect the remarkable diversity of living organisms, ...13 KB (1,883 words) - 04:32, 27 February 2023
- of southern Italy and a member of the Eleatic School, which began ... Zeno presented paradoxes in order to support the claims of Parmenides: ...8 KB (1,289 words) - 05:50, 13 June 2023
- as Wen·di, personal name Yang Jian, was the founder and first emperor ... Emperor Wen of Sui was definitely one of the most public leaders in ...8 KB (1,229 words) - 12:57, 31 January 2022
- radiation that falls on it, without any of the radiation passing through ... When heated, the black body becomes an ideal source of thermal radiation ...23 KB (3,522 words) - 18:09, 31 October 2023
- [[Image:Mach band.svg|frame|right|Notice the dark band that appears ... provide a valuable way to investigate how the eye and brain process visual ...4 KB (546 words) - 04:49, 5 November 2022
