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  • Also, the uranium-235 that remains in depleted uranium emits only a small amount of low-energy gamma radiation. According to the World Health ...
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  • Scandium (chemical symbol Sc, atomic number 21) is a soft, silvery-white metal. Scandium ore occurs in rare minerals from Scandinavia and elsewhere ...
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  • Mendelevium (chemical symbol Md (formerly Mv), atomic number 101), also known as unnilunium (symbol Unu), is a synthetic element in the periodic ...
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  • Modern geologists and geophysicists consider the age of Earth to be around 4.54 billion years (4.54 9 years).1997. [http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/geotime/age ...
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  • Carbonatites are unusual igneous rocks that contain carbonate minerals at levels that exceed 20 percent (by volume). Their additional mineral ...
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  • Nobelium (chemical symbol No, atomic number 102), also known as unnilbium (symbol Unb), is a synthetic element in the periodic table. A radioactive ...
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  • The outback, also known as the Great Australian Desert, is the remote and arid interior (and north) of Australia. The term "outback" ...
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  • The Republic of Chad is a landlocked country in central Africa. Though it has started exporting oil, these bright prospects are marred by widespread ...
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  • Kakadu National Park is in the Northern Territory of Australia, 171 kilometers (106 mi) east of Darwin. Located within the Alligator Rivers ...
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  • Namibia, officially the Republic of Namibia, is a sparsely populated country in Southern Africa on the Atlantic coast. It gained independence ...
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  • isotopes in Earth are potassium-40, uranium-238, uranium-235, and thorium-232. Robert Sanders, [http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2003/12/10_heat ...
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  • Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria (Georgian: ლავრენტი ბერია; Russian: Лаврентий Павлович Берия; March ...
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  • Sedimentology encompasses the study of modern sediments such as sand, Raymond Siever, Sand (New York: Scientific American Library, 1988, ISBN ...
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  • A bullet is a solid projectile propelled by a firearm or air gun, normally made from metal—usually lead. A bullet (in contrast to a shell) ...
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  • Saskatchewan is a prairie province in Canada, with an area of 227,134.67 square miles (588,276.09 sq. km) and a population of around 1 million ...
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  • In the most general terms, convection refers to the movement of molecules within fluids (that is, liquids, gases, and rheids). It is one of the ...
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  • The State of Wyoming is a state in the western region of the United States of America. The majority of the state is dominated by the mountain ...
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  • John Malcolm Fraser, AC, CH, PC (May 21, 1930 - March 20, 2015) was an Australian politician who was the 22nd Prime Minister of Australia. He ...
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  • The Namib Desert is a coastal desert in Namibia and southwestern Angola that encompasses the world's highest sand dunes, gravel plains, ...
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  • Coal is a black or brownish-black sedimentary rock composed primarily of carbon, along with other assorted substances, including sulfur. It is ...
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