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  • In chemistry, a base is thought of as a substance which can accept protons or any chemical compound that yields hydroxide ions (OH-) in solution ...
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  • An acid-base reaction is a chemical reaction that occurs between an acid and a base. Several concepts exist which provide alternative definitions ...
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  • The ability of a chemical to behave as both an acid and a base is called amphoterism, and this type of substance is known as an amphoteric substance. ...
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  • In isosceles triangles the angles at the base equal one another, and ... In isosceles triangles the angles at the base equal one another, and ...
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  • upon addition of small amounts of acid or base, or upon dilution. They usually consist of a weak acid and its conjugate base, or, less commonly ...
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  • and cytosine. In RNA, uracil is the base rather than thymine. ... consist of a nitrogen-containing base bonded to a five-carbon (pentose ...
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  • cells. They consist of a nitrogen-containing base bonded to a five-carbon (pentose) sugar. Nucleosides are the biochemical precursors of nucleotides ...
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  • In chemistry, a base is thought of as a substance which can accept protons or any chemical compound that yields hydroxide ions (OH-) in solution ...
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  • == World bauxite mine production, reserves, and reserve base == ... ! rowspan="2" | Reserve base |- ! 2000 ! 2001 ...
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  • An acid-base reaction is a chemical reaction that occurs between an acid and a base. Several concepts exist which provide alternative definitions ...
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  • cases, such as those organisms forming the base of deep-sea vent food webs ... their ability to photosynthesize—are the base of the food chain. ...
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  • fifth carbon of the sugar, and not to the base. The bases are attached to ... the parent compound.) Depending on their base sugar, nucleotides are therefore ...
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  • == Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding == [[Image:Chengdu_panda_breeding ... Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding, or simply Chengdu Panda ...
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  • that has lost a proton can now act as a base (or proton acceptor), and ... an acid is an electron-pair acceptor and a base is an electron-pair donor ...
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  • highest side. The width of the walls at the base is 4.09 meters (13.42 feet ... a walkway around the tower to make the base visible once again. This caused ...
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  • the total money supply, or monetary base. Total money supplies are ... is referred to as the "wide monetary base" or "narrow money ...
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  • binds on one end to a specific codon (three-base region) in the mRNA and binds ... The tRNA also contains a three base region called the anticodon that ...
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  • *Acid-base reactions, broadly characterized as reactions between an ... * Acid-base reaction * Base (chemistry) * Catalyst * Chemical bond ...
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  • x) or ex, where e is a mathematical constant, the base of the natural logarithm, which equals approximately 2.718281828, and is also known as Euler ...
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  • the acid, or the stability of the conjugate base using inductive effects or ... ===Stability of the conjugate base=== [[Image:Resonance stabilization ...
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  • The antennae are jointed at least at the base. There are a wide diversity ... The three basic segments of the typical insect antenna are the scape ...
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  • The system consists of a set of seven base units together with a set ... It has provided a necessary common base for the scientific, technical ...
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  • [R1NR2]-, and is an extremely strong base, due to the extreme weakness ... don't have as clearly noticeable acid-base properties in water. This ...
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  • tautomerism. The reaction with a strong base gives the corresponding enolate ... ketones are prepared from peroxides and base * In the Ruzicka cyclization ...
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  • The pituitary gland, or hypophysis, is an endocrine gland located near the base of vertebrate brain, and that produces secretions that stimulate ...
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  • in 1917 he amassed more hits (2,967), extra-base hits (865), and runs (1,521 ... Besides being a fearsome hitter, he was a skilled base stealer and ...
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  • In mathematics, the logarithm (or log) of a number x in base b is the power (n) to which the base b must be raised to obtain the number x. For ...
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  • (CsOH), an extremely strong chemical base that will rapidly etch the ... carbonate. It is therefore used as a base in organic chemistry. ...
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  • stabilization" of the conjugate base. ===Synthesis=== ... enol tautomerism is catalyzed by either acid or base. ===Common reactions=== ...
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  • A nucleotide is a chemical compound with three components: a nitrogen-containing base, a pentose (five-carbon) sugar (relatively simple carbohydrates ...
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  • feet, and a bare gray-white skin around the base of the bill in front of the ... The base of the adult's bill, loral region, and chin are bare ...
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  • For both definitions, log10 denotes the base-10 logarithm; therefore ... between the hydrogen ions and the conjugate base. The following shows the equilibrium ...
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  • of clay body. Stop at about 1/4 inch from the base # Widen the inside ... a toggle or cheese wire underneath the base of the pot to separate it ...
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  • this system the definition of each of the base units refer to specific empirical ... variations, with different choices of base units, though these do not ...
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  • interest rates, reducing the monetary base, or increasing reserve requirements ... policy involve modifying the amount of base currency (M0) in circulation ...
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  • first baseman and he was also a threat as a base stealer (he lead the league ... The following year he switched to first base; like Babe Ruth, he was too ...
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  • Sodium hydroxide, also known as lye or caustic soda, is a caustic metallic base. Its chemical formula is NaOH. Forming a strongly alkaline solution ...
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  • treatment of a parent alcohol with a strong base to form the alkoxide anion ... acidic, they readily react with a strong base, like sodium hydroxide, to ...
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  • built up the city's agricultural base by expanding the chinampa system (floating gardens) around the island, and by capturing lakeshore ...
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  • a proton donor is an acid and a proton acceptor a base (see acid-base reaction theories). [[image:protonrll.jpg|thumb|250px|A representation of ...
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  • A decimal (or denary) system is a numeral system that has the number ten as its base. The term decimal is also used for a number written in this ...
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  • reached the Hellespont, and established a base at Abydos. From there, he ... he had taken Lampsacus, and established a base at Sestos. However, perhaps ...
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  • better than most steels. The cost of copper-base alloys is generally higher than that of steels but lower than that of nickel-base alloys. ...
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  • five attempts to encircle the Communist base in the Jinggang Mountains ... interested in expanding their own power base. The CCP therefore planned ...
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  • Cellulose acetate is used as a synthetic fiber, a film base in photography ... Paris for nonflammable motion-picture film base. A small but growing amount ...
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  • the county of Devon, is the largest naval base in Western Europe. It has ... a major naval training establishment and a base for the Royal Marines. ...
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  • several variations, with different choices of base units, though these do not affect its day-to-day use. Over the last two centuries, different variants ...
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  • ruddy. The coat has a warm, reddish-brown base, with black ticking. In the ... which has a cinnamon (yellowish-brown) base, with chocolate brown ticking ...
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  • *The area, A, of a parallelogram is A = BH where B is the base of the parallelogram and H is its height. * The area of a parallelogram is twice ...
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  • blocks: a diamine (which is a chemical base) and a dicarboxylic acid ... In synthesizing nylon, it is difficult to get the diamine (base) and ...
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  • bronze wires glued or soldered to a metal base, forming cells (cloisons) ... The base of this ware is of copper, and designs an it are in five ...
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  • distinguishing it from imaginary numbers. Ten is the base of the decimal ... Ten is the base of the decimal numeral system, by far the most common ...
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  • a phosphate unit, a sugar unit, and a "base" unit) linked recursively ... The size of genomes is measured in terms of the number of base pairs ...
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  • in situ by the reaction of chloroform with a strong base. ... organolithium reagents (or another strong base). It is not certain that in ...
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  • lamps, and the hydroxide, a chemical base, is used to clean up acid ... as baryta, is a strong, corrosive chemical base. It has a white granular or ...
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  • with vertical mercury column and reservoir at base.]] an open mercury-filled reservoir at the base. Mercury in the tube adjusts ...
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  • side. This opposite side is called the base of the altitude, and the point ... where S is area, b is the length of the base of the triangle, and ...
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  • strong. The largest overseas French military base is located there. There is also a US base, the only US base in Sub-Saharan Africa. ...
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  • Williams set a Major League record for on-base percentage in a season at ... fielders positioned to the right of second base. Williams may also have been ...
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  • Walter Perry Johnson (November 6, 1887 – December 10, 1946), nicknamed "The Big Train," was an American right-handed pitcher in Major ...
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  • much debate and taxonomic revision. At the base of the genus is probably the ... leopard originally was seen as being at the base of the Panthera, but newer ...
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  • Thus, a genomic sequence is an absolute measure of base composition ... different individuals differ at one DNA base, for example where the sequence ...
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  • goal, but no "built-in" knowledge base of their environment. They ... with an initial data set or knowledge base, but this should not be immutable ...
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  • Aaron also holds the career marks for runs batted in (2,297), extra ... and a sophomore, playing outfield and third base for the school's baseball ...
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  • enough promise to start development of base selection for a limited ABM ... was allowed two sites at which it could base a defensive system, one for ...
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  • was clearly meant to sever the landed power base of aristocratic officialdom ... Sinmun was making efforts to strengthen the base of royal power by moving away ...
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  • Mountain”). It is 500 feet wide at its base and in total is 15 times higher ... from the closest point on the river to the base of the Falls is not easy going ...
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  • * Preston, Richard A. Acid-Base, Fluids, and Electrolytes Made Ridiculously Simple. MedMaster Series. Miami: MedMaster, Inc, 2002 (original 1997 ...
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  • bind on one end to specific codons (three-base region) in the mRNA and bind ... regions tend to be stabilized by internal base pairs; this impedes degradation ...
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  • resulting joints are not as strong as the base metal, but they have adequate ... Though the base material is not melted in a soldering process, some ...
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  • These stations transmit back to a base station the major parameters ... that periodically transmit telemetry to a base station. ...
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  • flower head of this plant, including the base, which is known as the heart ... portions of the involucral bracts and the base, or center, known as the ...
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  • Ribonucleic acid or RNA is a polymer or chain of nucleotide units, each comprising a nitrogenous base (adenine, cytosine, guanine, or uracil ...
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  • 1950s until the early 1970s. Following the base closures, many people living ... so the island was used as a hunting base, and occupation sites were ...
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  • tuberous under ground organs from the base of the stem, weighing up to ... the main shoot develops from the tuber, the base of the shoot close to the ...
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  • with gardens, moats, and walls at the base of the rock. The architects ... wall on all sides, the rock overhangs its base in many places.Encyclopædia ...
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  • the tie-point, long enough to reach the base of the poles. These tripod ... The base of the skin is pegged to the ground. Traditionally pegs were ...
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  • pelvic fins, a dorsal fin with a very long base, depressible into groove, ... in the adult; a dorsal fin with a very long base that is sometimes sail-like ...
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  • * by Favorskii rearrangement of α-haloketones in presence of base ... be catalyzed both by acids and bases. The base-catalyzed process is called ...
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  • left the following inscription on the base's walls nonetheless: "Sostratus, the son of Dexiphanes, the Cnidian, dedicated (or erected ...
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  • seems to have derived from the Proto-Indo-European base *(e)nebh- meaning "moist", which forms the base for the Latin nebula, referring to ...
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  • 91 left Mehran (Sindh province) Naval Base in Pakistan at 9:15 a.m. ... MiGs tried to escort it to a nearby Indian base, when the Pakistani aircraft ...
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  • of the offensive lineup advances past first base, second base, third base, ... can also hold the ball while touching a base, when an offensive player ...
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  • covered by a single scale, enclosing at its base two very small opposite buds ... a nectariferous gland and inserted on the base of a scale, which is itself ...
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  • * Neoprene base * Polysulfide * Polyurethane * Polyvinyl chloride (PVC) * Rubber base * Silicon base * Albumin glue * Ceramic adhesive ...
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  • are combined in the presence of a strong base, the product is methyl formate ... (atm) pressure. The most widely used base is sodium methoxide. Hydrolysis ...
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  • |align=center| base-centered |- || [[image:Monoclinic.png|80px|Monoclinic ... || [[image:Monoclinic-base-centered.png|80px|Monoclinic, centered]] ...
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  • In Latin America in the 1970s, base communities, a form of a cell church, were organized among the poorest groups of people by priests desiring ...
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  • being walked, Rose would sprint to first base. He was also known for sliding ... Hustle" after Rose sprinted to first base after drawing a walk. Rose ...
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  • Jasminum sambac). This tea which often has a base of green tea, but sometimes an Oolong base is used. Jasmine tisane (any herbal infusion other than from ...
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  • produced tend to vary according to the base alloy. Though some may prefer ... oxide created occupies more space than the base metal converted. This will ...
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  • shaped award mounted on a square wooden base," also presented between ... rectangular prisms on a silver metal base, green felt on bottom"; ...
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  • formed, with larger sediment forming the base, and finer particles making ... of a river. They have a wide earthen base and taper at the top. Natural ...
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  • that are normally free or united at the base. Flowers have compound pistils ... nine stamina inserted on the torus at the base of the peranthium. The flowers ...
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  • In base 10, a number is evenly divisible by nine if and only if its ... The only other number with this property is three. In base N, the ...
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  • strictly a reaction type design with the base of the blade solely impulse ... turbines are easily cabled to a terrestrial base and connected to a grid or ...
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  • The Port of Yokohama quickly became the base for foreign trade in Japan ... The Port of Yokohama quickly became the base for foreign trade in ...
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  • feet (264 meters) high as measured from its base and 1,267 feet (386 meters ... is also a sizable prairie dog town near the base, the circumference of which ...
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  • Chemically, aniline is a weak base. Aromatic amines such as aniline ... found that on reducing nitrobenzene, a base was formed which he named ...
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  • than the hindwings and hardened at the base, while the hindwings are membranous ... katydids, the stridulatory edge is at the base of the tegmina, while in crickets ...
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  • bearing two axillary ovules. Sometimes the base of the ovary is circled by ... corolla, with the petals joined only at the base. They are insect pollinated ...
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  • example) and a claim in the "reduction base" (physics). Continuing ... difference in the theory that provides the base for reduction (e.g. 3 strings ...
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  • 18), RBI (40), runs (42), walks (43), extra-base hits (26), and total bases (123). ... was known as the "fastest man to first base." ...
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  • on the planet, as measured from their base at the bottom of the ocean. ... In 1944, American forces constructed a small and short-lived air base ...
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  • that combines the cylindrical wall and the round base; the transition between the wall and base is usually somewhat gradual. Such cans have a single ...
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  • grows at its tip rather than at the base. The basal body has many traits ... flagella grow by the addition of subunits to the base. * Bacterial ...
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  • the axis. The equipment consists of a fixed base and a rotating component, ... The U.S. Air Force at Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico, operates ...
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  • as well as a founder of the Knickerbocker Base Ball team and creator of the ... While establishing the Knickerbockers Base Ball club in 1845 Cartwright ...
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  • "First" 1758 Edition (Tableau with base of 400l., accompanied by Remarques sur les variations de la distribution des revenus annuels ...
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  • attached to the stem by a little, peg-like base; pendulous cones (hanging ... four to ten years old, while the peg-like base remains on the branch, leaving ...
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  • the human nervous system, beginning at the base of the spinal column and moving ... in a column of energy that spans from the base of the spine to the middle ...
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  • place long enough to form a strong local power base. The Taira and Minamoto nobles were thus familiar with the members of the imperial court. Taira ...
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  • a feedstock component for the production of base petrochemicals in steam cracking ... , as a feedstock for the production of base petrochemicals in steam cracking ...
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  • One cannot be used as the base of a positional numeral system. Sometimes ... The logarithms base 1 is undefined, since 1x=1 and so has no unique ...
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  • ===Base materialism=== Bataille developed base materialism during the late 1920s and early ...
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  • of a single pole supported by a sturdy base and a number of pegs at the top. * Table: A table consists of a surface supported by a base, usually ...
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  • met on the following day at Qoleiat air base in North Lebanon and elected President Rene Mouawad 409 days after Amine Gemayel vacated this position ...
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  • Sakuya Hime is revered at shrines at the base and around the rim of the ... Around 800 C.E. a shrine was built at the base of the mountain to placate ...
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  • caustic potash or potash lye, is a metallic base. Readily soluble in water ... Potassium hydroxide is a major industrial chemical, used as a base ...
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  • bond. This type of bond forms when a Lewis base (an electron donor or giver ... To function as the Lewis base an atom in a compound must contains ...
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  • The DSpace community has attempted to base its formal structure along the same lines as the Apache Foundation community development model. That ...
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  • Like other alkali metal oxides, it is a strong base. It thus reacts rapidly with water to form rubidium hydroxide (RbOH), releasing heat. Rubidium ...
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  • |base of operations= |rank= |commands= |battles= |wealth= ... Morgan and his crew returned to their base at Port Royal, Jamaica, to ...
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  • after the closing of the United States naval base on Trinidad at Chagaramas. In the 1957 Broadway musical Jamaica Harold Arlen and Yip Harburg cleverly ...
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  • in Hawaii is tallest when measured from its base; it rises about 6.3 miles ... for three days entirely alone from his base camp at 19,500 feet (6500 ...
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  • many forms. A pagoda has three sections; a base, a body, and a top, which ... many forms. A pagoda has three sections; a base, a body, and a top, which ...
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  • Sodium hydroxide is a powerful chemical base, but sodium bicarbonate and ... lye or caustic soda, is a strong chemical base, widely used in chemical laboratories ...
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  • A metalloid is a chemical element with properties that are intermediate between those of metals and nonmetals. The following elements are generally ...
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  • system, using a combination of two bases (base-2 and base-5) to represent ... This Mesoamerican abacus used a 5-digit base-20 system. ...
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  • that stabilize the arc and shield the base material from impurities continued ... electric arc between an electrode and the base material to melt metals at ...
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  • Wat Phou (Vat Phu) is a Khmer ruined temple complex in southern Laos located at the base of Mount Phu Kao, 6|km from the Mekong river in Champassak ...
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  • DNA sequences is the substitution of the base uracil (U) in RNA in place ... traverses the template strand and uses base pairing complementarity with ...
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  • In Watson-Crick base pairing, cytosine forms three hydrogen bonds with guanine. From the point of view of structure, it is remarkable that cytosine ...
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  • Senators at RFK Stadium. The same runners were on base on both home runs—Dave McNally on third, Don Buford on second and Paul Blair on first. ...
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  • Fouls may occur in bowling when a player crosses the foul line at the base of the lane as they release the ball. If a player crosses the line ...
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  • *Ashkenazic Orthodox Jews have traditionally base most of their practices ... *Mizrahi and Sephardic Orthodox Jews generally base their practice ...
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  • the National Association of Professional Base Ball Players, it is sometimes ... the National Association of Professional Base Ball Players, and followed ...
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  • planning purposes and not at least as a base for sampling surveys. ... and other values encoded by knots in a base ten positional system. ...
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  • A nonmetal is a chemical element with several properties that are opposite those of a metal. Based on their properties, the elements of the periodic ...
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  • head); 3–7 hairy sepals may be fused at base, and the petals are 3–7 ... yellow-green bristle fibers attached to the base of each achene. These bristles ...
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  • An inference system's job is to extend a knowledge base automatically ... Let us return to our Socrates syllogism. We enter into our Knowledge ...
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  • the 300s C.E. they built a monastery there at its base. ... Serbal, and a monastery was founded at its base in the fourth century; it ...
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  • He obtained it by treating 2-chloroethanol with a base. It achieved industrial importance during World War I as a precursor to both the coolant ...
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  • President Roosevelt covertly said its base was Shangri-La, a fictional ... airfields and transport while returning to base. This contributed significantly ...
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  • to see herself as a secure and stable base from which people can participate ... to see herself as a secure and stable base from which people can participate ...
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  • defense, often depending on the presence of base runners; specialized pitches ... by the umpire. A batter can take first base either through safely hitting ...
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  • often serving as a throne for buddhas and base for stupas. The architecture ... The journey for pilgrims begins at the base of the monument and follows ...
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  • a short distance of a personal or domestic base station connected to a fixed ... Cordless telephones, invented by Teri Pall in 1965, consist of a base ...
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  • dark appearance of the clouds at their base. Thin clouds may appear to ... Clouds are classified by the cloud base height, not the cloud top ...
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  • Civil or civilian law is a legal tradition which is the base of the ... source of law. By default, courts thus base their judgments on the provisions ...
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  • can behave as an acid and as a base. For example, it dissolves in base to form the stannate ion, Sn(OH)62-, which can then form stannate compounds ...
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  • are combined with the fragrance and incense base mixture, and kneaded into ... Incense base can also be formed into incense shapes without the addition ...
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  • constituency primarily functioned as a base of political capital. The ... Film Academy. A large decorated flagpole base within Union Square Park is ...
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  • components: A nitrogenous heterocyclic base (either a purine or a pyrimidine ... sugar and phosphate subunits. A nitrogenous base is attached to each sugar ...
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  • * Width at base of monument: 55 feet 1.5 inches (16.80 meters) ... * Thickness of monument walls at base: 15 feet (4.6 meters) ...
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  • center of the podium, which comprises their base. The temples group into three ... (spires) cluster to create an appropriate base for the main shikhara over ...
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  • yuyera (herbalist) and use the mate as a base for their herbal infusions ... opening tilted just slightly upward of the base. The mate is then shaken very ...
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  • together in a seamer and held in place by the base plate and chuck, respectively. The base plate provides a sure footing for the can body during the seaming ...
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  • baseman, but he was unable to win the first base job in high school, so he ... know, we'd ask, 'Who plays second base for the Bums?'" ...
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  • A 1.8 shakuhachi produces D4 (D above Middle C, 293.66Hz) as its base note--the note it produces with all five finger holes covered, and a normal ...
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  • radius of the gear and the radius at the base of the teeth. ... 'Base circle'. Applies only to involute gears, where the ...
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  • the protection of the fortified naval base of Port Arthur. However, the ... 4th and 5th flotillas to attack the Russian base at Dalny. ...
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  • German philosopher Christian Wolff attempted to base an entire philosophical system on it), but some historical figures appear to have denied it (arguably ...
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  • and tragedy masks, mounted on a black base with a pewter swivel. ... The medallion has been mounted on a black base since 1967. ...
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  • 1988 genetic study points to an East Asian base, probably in Siberia, as the ... into a rope and coiling it upwards from a base. Vessels were heaped up and ...
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  • sprained his ankle in a collision at first base and finished the season with ... pitching arm while diving back to second base to beat a pick-off throw. ...
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  • 150,000 in Angeles City, and 20,000 at Clark Air Base. Several important ... saturated all the seismographs at Clark Air Base, which were later rendered ...
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  • #039;s Fascist troops used Asmara as the base for the invasion of Ethiopia ... #039;s Fascist troops used Asmara as the base for the invasion of Ethiopia ...
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  • The U.S. Air Force at Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico, houses a human centrifuge. It is operated by the aerospace physiology department, ...
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  • Company intended to establish a permanent base on the island of Zhoushan ... fought to liberalize trade to China. With a base in Hong Kong, British traders ...
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  • in 1823. Norton's bullet had a hollow base which expanded under pressure ... Norton's bullet except that the hollow base of the bullet was fitted with ...
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  • from its close proximity to Canadian Forces Base Esquimalt, the Canadian military’s ... in 1858, Victoria became the port, supply base, and outfitting centre for ...
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  • In addition, many hydrocarbons serve as base materials for the synthesis of organic chemicals used in the production of consumer products and ...
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  • N2H4) is also common. Ammonia is a chemical base— more basic than water by ... . An inorganic amide is an extremely strong base and decomposes in water. Note ...
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  • reform of 1882, which reduced the minimum tax base required for males above 24 to vote to 5 guilders. Before this reform, the tax base was set locally ...
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  • These hydrogen bonding modes are for classical Watson-Crick base pairing. Other hydrogen bonding modes are seen in both DNA and RNA. Of significance ...
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  • The term refers to a system with a tax base of consumption. It usually ... Consumption tax refers to a system with a tax base of spending or ...
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  • which means that it can act as an acid or as a base, depending on the solution it is in. It is used as an acousto-optic material. It is also a conditional ...
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  • to the ground. By 1404, only the very base of the structure was still ... At this time a party of knights entered the base of the monument and ...
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  • as the anterior appendage, composed of a base segment and a fang portion). Extant chelicerates include spiders, scorpions, ticks, and mites ...
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  • Found in RNA, it base pairs with adenine through hydrogen bonding and is replaced by thymine in DNA. Uracil can base pair with any of the bases ...
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  • though the Kanembu became the main power-base of the Sayfuwa, Kanem's ... and other seminomadic peoples. As a base for the resistance he eventually ...
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  • Iqaluit was home to an American Air Force base from 1949 to 1963, providing ... Baffin Island has become popular among the BASE jumping community ...
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  • INR, or about US $12. The diameter of the base measures 14.3 meters wide ... stating that ten meters from the base of the minaret. Jain tirthankar ...
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  • property #18), constructed with a base and pedestal with carved designs in the base, from the late Silla period. *Bowing Stone, a rectangular ...
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  • used in the pharmaceutical industry as a base material for tablets of other ... of lime), is a medium-strength chemical base that reacts violently with ...
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  • from coins made from precious metals, to base metal fiat currency, to the ... metals, today most coins are made of a base metal, their value coming ...
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  • number five can be represented by both the base ten numeral '5' ... In the base ten number system, in almost universal use today for arithmetic ...
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  • is no precise definition of surrounding base, but Denali which has a rise ... from base to peak, Adam Helman, The Finest Peaks: Prominence and Other ...
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  • Asian species have three or four hairs at the base of each scale, but the African species lack hairs at the base of the scales (Atkins 2004). ...
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  • a settlement there. By 1536, it was a base for the export of slaves. ... at which point the city became an important base for the conquest of the western ...
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  • Mecca and carried the Black Stone away to their base in Bahrain. According to this version of the story, the Stone was returned twenty-two years later ...
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  • : A—Aim the nozzle at the base of the fire, from a safe distance ... : S—Sweep the extinguisher from side to side while aiming at the ...
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  • as a game in which no batter reaches first base safely, thus no hits, walks ... For at least a portion of Young's career, statistics such as ...
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  • that is, it can behave as an acid as well as a base. In strongly acidic conditions, the ion Ga3+ is formed; in strongly basic conditions, Ga(OH)4 ...
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  • and his preferred position was first base. He became a basketball standout ... baseman. Harris placed Greenberg at third base with disastrous results. Greenberg ...
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  • contacts are used, such as a screw base (one or more contacts at the ... towel or carefully holding the porcelain base. If the quartz is contaminated ...
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  • terminals of the BJT are named emitter, base and collector. Two p-n junctions ... light, since absorption of photons in the base region generates a photocurrent ...
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  • because 2 and 5 are factors of ten, the decimal base. Two is the base of the simplest numeral system in which natural numbers ...
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  • occupies a total of just over 3 billion DNA base pairs and has a data size ... between every 1 in 100 and 1 in 1,000 base pairs in the euchromatic human ...
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  • value. By contrast, the more common "base" metals can be protected in ways that are more temporary. For some metals, their corrosion ...
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  • symbolic value, often provides the base for the erect linga. Lingas ... the lord of all yogins. The yoni, as the base of the erect linga, serves ...
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  • with each other from their common base of shared experience, interests, attitudes, and identity. This is, however, coupled with the desire to ...
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  • of roots above the growing medium at the base of a bonsai. Nebari helps ... often a base mixture of coarse sand or gravel, fired clay pellets ...
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  • Wheat flour is also used to make a roux as a base for gravy and sauces. White wheat flour is the traditional base for wallpaper paste. It is also the ...
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  • education. Animal fables decorate the base and staircase. ... by sand diggers, four meters deep. Square base of main temple visible. Secondary ...
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  • to a group of compounds that shared a chemical base. They could all be derived from purine, which Fischer first predicted the existence of and later ...
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  • above its immediate southwestern base on the Dakkhni Nanda Devi Glacier ... and thence to Longstaff Col. The trek to base camp goes through the villages ...
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  • In base 10, 6 is a 1-automorphic number. ===List of basic calculations=== ... hexa- with the Latinate decimal to name a number base of 16 ...
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  • by some solutions (such as concentrated acid or base), and may tear during the filtration of large volumes of solution. #The alternative is a ...
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  • there, intending to use it as a base to dominate the Muslim world ... Albuquerque planned to use Goa as a naval base against the Muslims, and as ...
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  • of country music beyond its normal fan base. For two years in a row, Travis ... entertainment, yet there remained a solid base of die-hard, traditional country ...
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  • an aircraft mechanic at George Air Force Base, Victorville, California. ... pilot at Muroc Army Air Field (now Edwards Air Force Base). ...
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  • was splitting time between catching, first base, and the outfield. a majority of his playing time was at first base, where he would play the remainder ...
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  • the development of socialism, a theoretical base supporting the repression ... to establish an eastern industrial base, beyond the Urals, that could ...
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  • 19, 2024. When Steve Bilko played first base, Cubs announcer Bert Wilson ... and Taylor, Musial tried to run for second base. Seeing that Musial was running ...
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  • also used the territory granted them as a base to extend the frontiers of ... wooden castle near Hastings as a base. The choice of landing was a ...
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