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  • Category:Public Pain is an unpleasant sensation that may be associated with actual or potential tissue damage and may contain physical and emotional ...
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  • Rocket propellant is the material used by a rocket engine to generate thrust. The most common propellants consist of a fuel and an oxidizer that ...
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  • Kana is a general term for the syllabic Japanese scripts hiragana (ひらがな) and katakana (カタカナ) as well as the old system known ...
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  • The Kingdom of Lunda (c. 1665-1887), also known as the Lunda Empire was a pre-colonial African confederation of states in what is now the Democratic ...
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  • Orpheus (Greek: Ορφεύς; pronunciation: ohr'-fee-uhs) The mythological name "Orpheus" is commonly pronounced "ohr' ...
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  • Cadmium (chemical symbol Cd, atomic number 48) is a relatively rare, soft, bluish-white metal. Its chemical properties are similar to those of ...
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  • Prion ( ˈpriːɒn ; 'prē,än The Oxford American College Dictionary (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2002). ; "pree-on" ...
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  • Valine is an α-amino acid that is found in most proteins and is essential in the human diet. It is similar to leucine and isoleucine in being ...
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  • Cellular differentiation is an embryological process by which an unspecialized cell becomes specialized into one of the many cell types that ...
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  • Sulfur or sulphur (see spelling below) (chemical symbol S, atomic number 16) is a yellow crystalline solid at ordinary temperatures and pressures ...
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  • safeguard the taiga for future generations. The world's largest terrestrial biome, the taiga ( ˈtaɪgə ) is a major subarctic, geographic ...
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  • Evangelista Torricelli (October 15, 1608 – October 25, 1647) was an Italian physicist and mathematician, best known for his invention of the ...
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  • An aerogel is a low-density solid-state material derived from a gel in which the liquid component of the gel has been replaced with gas. The ...
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  • Moss is the common name for any of the small, green, non-vascular land plants of the division Bryophyta, characterized by multi-cellular rhizoids ...
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  • A white dwarf, also called a degenerate dwarf, is a small star composed mostly of electron-degenerate matter. As white dwarfs have mass comparable ...
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  • Measles, also known as rubeola, is a very highly contagious [[virus|viral] disease caused by a paramyxovirus of the genus Morbillivirus, and ...
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  • The Hetmanate or officially Viysko Zaporozke ( Гетьманщина, Het’manshchyna; Військо Запорозьке, Viys’ko Zaporoz’ke ...
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  • Germ layer is any of three cellular layers formed during animal embryogenesis that give rise through further differentiation to the various structures ...
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  • In anatomy, the heart is the muscular, pumping organ of the closed circulatory system of all vertebrates and some invertebrates (annelids and ...
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  • Watershed has traditionally designated the dividing line, or drainage divide, between two drainage basins; that is, the ridge of high land or ...
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