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  • Curium (chemical symbol Cm, atomic number 96) is a radioactive, metallic, transuranic element "Transuranic elements" are the chemical ...
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  • Americium (chemical symbol Am, atomic number 95) is a radioactive, synthetic metallic element, classified as an actinide. It was the fourth transuranic ...
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  • Fuel is any material that is burned or altered to obtain energy. Fuel releases its energy either through chemical means, such as combustion, ...
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  • ==== Pu-239 ==== Plutonium-239 is one of the three fissile materials ... with a half-life of 373,300 years, and Pu-239, with a half-life of 24,110 ...
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  • Thorium (chemical symbol Th, atomic number 90) is a naturally occurring, slightly radioactive metal and is a member of the actinide series. It ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropologists Woolley, Leonard Sir Leonard Charles Woolley (April 17, 1880 – February 20, 1960 ...
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  • Nuclear fission is the splitting of the nucleus of an atom into parts (lighter nuclei), often producing photons (in the form of gamma rays), ...
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  • Neptunium (chemical symbol Np, atomic number 93) is a silvery radioactive metallic element, belonging to the actinide series. It is the first ...
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  • Einsteinium (chemical symbol Es, atomic number 99) is a synthetic element in the periodic table. A metallic, highly radioactive, transuranic element ...
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  • The Lüshi Chunqiu is an encyclopedic Chinese classic text compiled around 239 B.C.E. under the patronage of the Qin Dynasty Chancellor Lü Buwei ...
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  • Traditional Chinese: 韓非 Simplified Chinese: 韩非 Pinyin: Hán Fēi Wade-Giles: Han Fei Han Fei (韓非) (ca. 280 B.C.E. – 233 B.C.E., ...
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  • reaction (by converting fertile U-238 to Pu-239) which allows an operational ... into plutonium-239, which is another fuel. Pu-239 is a viable fuel and must ...
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  • Qu Yuan ( c=屈原|p=Qū Yuán , Ch’u Yuan) (ca. 340 B.C.E. - 278 B.C.E.) was a Chinese patriotic poet from southern Chu during the Warring ...
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  • Pǔyí (Traditional Chinese: 溥儀; Simplified Chinese: 溥仪) (February 7, 1906–October 17, 1967) of the Manchu Aisin-Gioro Aisin-Gioro is ...
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  • Yunnan ( s=云南 |t=雲南 |p=Yúnnán ; literally "south of the clouds") is a province of the People's Republic of China located ...
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  • Hua Tuo (華佗, 華陀, 华陀, Huá Tuó) (? - 208) was a renowned physician during the Eastern Han Dynasty and Three Kingdoms era of China ...
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  • The Manhattan Project was the project undertaken during World War II by the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada to develop the first ...
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  • Yáng Guìfēi ( t=楊貴妃|s=杨贵妃|p=Yáng Guìfēi ) (literally means, "precious princess consort") (June 1, 719 — July 15 ...
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  • Beryllium (chemical symbol Be, atomic number 4) ranks among the lightest of all known metals. Steel-gray in color, it is strong but brittle. ...
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  • Dahui Zonggao (大慧宗杲) (1089–1163) (Wade-Giles: Ta-hui Tsung-kao; Japanese: Daie Sōkō) was a twelfth century Chinese Chan (Zen) master ...
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