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of most or all comets entering the inner solar system (some short-period ... falls of comets onto the Earth that caused mass extinction of life on Earth ...

Typically, giant stars have radii between 10 and 100 solar radii and ... the main sequence. A star whose initial mass is less than approximately ...

into space, most easily seen during a total solar eclipse but also observable ... 106 kelvin.M.J. Aschwanden, Physics of the Solar Corona. An Introduction ...

the vast majority of stars and have a mass of less than one-half that ... Red dwarfs are stars with very low mass, generally no more than 40 ...

quot; is often used as a synonym for "mass," the two are fundamentally ... Recognition of the difference between weight and mass is a relatively ...

The solar wind is a stream of charged particles — a plasma — ejected ... The solar wind creates the heliosphere, a vast bubble in the interstellar ...

planets and many previously unobserved Solar System objects. Also, it ... of their mutual orbit around the center of mass of the system. NASA's ...

A typical neutron star has a mass between 1.35 and 2.1 solar masses ... equivalence formula E = mc²) is one solar mass. It is ultimately this ...

There are 240 known moons within the solar system, including 163 orbiting ... system is unusual in that the center of mass lies in open space between ...

occurs in a stellar system such as the Solar System, the celestial bodies ... is most often used to describe either a solar eclipse, when the Moon's ...

of planets and other objects in the Solar System, relative to the Earth ... the Sun at which a particle of negligible mass, in an unperturbed circular ...

of energy. Imagine that a spaceship of mass m is at a distance r from ... Escape velocity is independent of the mass of the escaping object ...

closed-die forging, which is well suited to mass production. Open-die forging ... Closed-die forging is more expensive for mass production than is casting ...

and other objects similar to those in the Solar System. ... is the final stage of the life of a low-mass star, such as our Sun. Stars ...

In physics, the center of mass (CM) of a system of particles is a ... In the case of a rigid body, the position of its center of mass is ...

space between them. This matter has greater mass than that of the galaxies ... of dark matter that may have 10 times more mass than the total mass of the ...

phases. The source of energy is primarily solar radiation. Evaporation is ... The total amount, or mass, of water in the water cycle remains essentially ...

The Chandrasekhar limit limits the mass of bodies made from electron ... M☉=1.989•1030 kg is the standard solar mass.[http://vizier.u-strasbg ...

other planets—are exposed to galactic and solar cosmic rays; irradiation ... hydrogen, helium, and other rare gases; solar flare tracks; and accreted ...

which is generally the center of mass of the system. The point of ... commonly used for orbits of planets in the Solar System, but the same terms ...

Mass, in classical mechanics, is the measure of an object's resistance ... three subtly differentiated types of mass, which are important precisely ...

In visible light, the Crab Nebula consists of a broadly oval-shaped ... Estimates of the total mass of the nebula are important for estimating ...

beyond the Solar System. The study of chemicals within the Solar System ... 'generations' advance, the mass of the newly formed elements ...

Brown dwarfs are celestial objects ranging in mass between that of ... If, however, the mass of the protostar is less than about 0.08 solar ...

of their orbits. While planets in the Solar System form a stable state ... found that the orbits of the planets in our solar system are elliptical, not ...

raw materials from other bodies within the Solar System at a lower cost than ... materials will need to be moved about the solar system. There are several ...

of a payback scheme: Construction of solar power satellites from lunar ... was a series of functional prototypes of a mass driver, the essential technology ...

quot; as a celestial body that, within the solar system,[http://www.iau.org/news/pr ... :(b) has sufficient mass for its self-gravity to overcome rigid body ...

The ozone layer absorbs ultraviolet solar radiation that could damage ... of its constituent gases, as a result of solar heat. As the Sun heats the ...

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called the heliosphere, is larger than the solar system itself and is characterized ... magnetosphere at times permit some of the solar wind particles to flow into ...

In particular, CPT symmetry predicts the mass and lifetime of the antiproton ... Nucléaire) succeeded in determining the mass of the antiproton, which they ...

largest by diameter and fourth largest by mass. Uranus is similar in composition ... discovery expanded the boundaries of the Solar System for the first time ...

radio waves. Lodge tried to observe solar signals but was unable to ... of galaxies suggest that there is much more mass in galaxies than has been ...

applications in photovoltaic cells for solar power. When zinc is added ... compound is a useful material for solar cells (photovoltaics). It ...

The Earth reflects about 30 percent of the incoming solar radiation; ... does not rapidly heat or cool, the absorbed solar radiation must be very closely ...

An asteroid is a solid object, smaller than a planet, which in our ... ==Asteroids in the solar system== [[Image:4 Vesta 1 Ceres Moon at 20 ...

* They have a large mass compared to standard particles. (WIMPs with ... observations. Because of their large mass, they would be relatively ...

are among the most massive objects in the Solar System outside the Sun and ... the fourth-largest moon in the Solar System. It was named after ...

==The solar wind and magnetosphere== [[Image:Magnetosphere schematic ... to understand the interactions between the solar wind, the Earth's magnetic ...

Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest in the Solar ... combined, so massive that its center of mass with the Sun actually lies ...

The Sun is the star at the center of the Earth's solar system ... About 74 percent of the Sun's mass is hydrogen, 25 percent is ...

A cloud is a visible mass of condensed droplets, frozen crystals suspended ... efficiently, so that the intensity of the solar radiation decreases with ...

that if it were at the center of the Solar System, it would wholly engulf ... (B-V) of 1.86 and is thought to have a mass of about 20 solar masses.Jim ...

Neptune is the eighth and farthest planet from the Sun in our solar ... Neptune also has the strongest winds of any planet in the solar system ...

one of the major modes of heat transfer and mass transfer. In fluids, convective ... helps clarify the principles of heat and mass transfer in fluids but also ...

=== Solar evaporation of seawater === is suitably high) it is possible to use solar evaporation of sea water ...

The Solar system (or solar system) Capitalization of the name varies ... beings and all known forms of life. The solar system comprises the Sun ...

* m is the rest mass of the ejected electron, and * v_m is the speed ... pc)^2 + (mc^2)^2}, where m is the rest mass of the particle and c is the ...

work needed to accelerate a body of a given mass from rest to its current velocity ... contributes to the system's invariant mass, which is seen as the same ...

in the stratosphere absorbs ultraviolet solar radiation that could damage ... * The mean molecular mass of air is 28.97 g/mol. == Methodology == ...

and xenon arc lamps are used in solar simulators and automotive ... tool for studying the formation of the Solar System. The I-Xe method of ...

Mercury is the innermost and smallest planet in the solar system, ... highest among the various bodies of the solar system, being only slightly ...

on the Moon and Near Earth Asteroids, that solar energy is readily available ... the merits, human travel beyond the Solar System is not feasible in ...

the heliocentric (sun-centered) view of the solar system that we find the early ... bodies interacting under gravity, and solar system objects in particular ...

most common element in the universe (by mass) and is the second most abundant ... Measured by mass, silicon makes up 25.7 percent of the Earth's ...

demonstrated the stability of the Solar System and vindicated Isaac ... the proof of the stability of the whole Solar System on the assumption ...

*The mass of a substance produced at an electrode during electrolysis ... which is provided by the nuclear reactor or solar panels. ...

Most cosmic rays originate from extra-solar sources within earth& ... === Solar cosmic rays === Solar cosmic rays are cosmic rays that originate ...

In the Solar System, Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun. It is ... and others to regard it as a miniature Solar System, with objects of various ...

A comet is a small body in the solar system that orbits the Sun and ... from a nebula that collapsed to produce the solar system, about five billion ...

recorded Thales’ prediction of a solar eclipse that put an end of ... Thales thought that the Earth existed as a mass that floats on water (Aristotle ...

gsfc.nasa.gov/istp/news/9812/solarwind.html Solar Wind Squeezes Some of Earth ... e/headlines/ast07sep99_1.htm]. The solar wind is composed of plasma ...

mainly empty space, and that almost all its mass is concentrated in the tiny ... is an electrically neutral particle with a mass almost equal to that of the ...

and the characteristics of the Sun and solar system which appear favorable ... of other planets and moons within the solar system has provided critical ...

An observer on Earth therefore sees a solar path that is the result of ... (the flat plane made through the center of mass (barycenter) of the solar ...

second-largest known dwarf planet in the solar system and the tenth largest ... known celestial pair combinations in the solar system, and because the barycenter ...

The original base unit of mass in the metric system was the gram, ... 15, 2005, scientists called for the mass of the standard kilogramme ...

emitting diodes (LEDs), laser diodes, and solar cells. Some of its electronic ... is low, making it a suitable material for solar cell arrays for satellites ...

Earth is the third planet in the solar system in terms of distance ... deflecting charged particles brought by the solar wind. The presence of water ...

All these components of the universe have positive mass/energy. They ... for almost three-quarters of the total mass-energy of the universe. ...

directly affects how it interacts with solar radiation. The chemical constituents ... All aerosols both absorb and scatter solar and terrestrial radiation ...

atom of deuterium has roughly twice the mass of an ordinary hydrogen atom ... symbol D. As an isotope of hydrogen with mass number 2, it is also represented ...

launched on a trajectory to escape the solar system, and the first to ... probes, which famously explored all of the solar system's gas giants ...

The isotopes of chromium range in atomic weight from 43 atomic mass ... of evidence for the early history of the solar system. Variations in 53Cr/52Cr ...

plasma (see astrophysical plasmas). In the solar system, the planet Jupiter ... * The solar wind * The interplanetary medium(the space between the planets) ...

stiffness, as well as in some cases tuned mass dampers to damp out movements. ... has also helped to build railroad bridges, mass-transit systems, and harbors. ...

by temperatures above freezing or by direct solar radiation. By late spring ... exchange processes. The snowpack absorbs solar shortwave radiation that ...

A meteoroid is a small body of debris in the Solar System, roughly ... name, (at 41.28 deg. N, 81.92 deg. W) had a mass of 12.4 kg (27 lb) and was ...

A solar cell or photovoltaic cell is a device that converts solar ... it was not until 1883 that the first solar cell was built, by Charles ...

Assisted Laser-Desorption Time-of-flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF), ... Generally, solar cells on the market today do not produce much electricity ...

combined with the upward forcing of the air mass containing that water vapor ... * Mass migration, resulting in internal displacement and international ...

optic cables to tennis shoes, and from solar cells to sail boats. Materials ... *1855 - Bessemer process for mass production of steel patented ...

===The light reactions convert solar energy to chemical energy=== ... In photosynthesis, transfer of solar energy to reaction centers takes ...

distribution is strongly peaked at 0.6 solar mass, and the majority lie between ... yielding a mass estimate of 0.94 solar mass. (A more modern estimate ...

through roughly 12 regular cycles per solar year, the Moon for millennia ... and Sun in the sky as revealed by a total solar eclipse offers further cause ...

Comparing the mass and luminosity of our Sun to the multitudes of ... suggesting an age for the Solar System and an upper limit for the ...

It is, however, difficult to ignite in mass or bulk. Once ignited, it ... the meteorite must have formed in the solar nebula before the 26Al had ...

Traditionally solar-lunar in nature, Chinese ancient calendars were ... and gives a correct account of lunar and solar eclipses. It is noted that ...

that flow downslope when an unstable mass of sediment that has been ... Mass wasting, slumping, and submarine landslides are forms of slope ...

or constellations at sunrise or sunset, and solar events such as solstices ... business, health and medicine, religion, mass media, transportation, science ...

sintering where the clay becomes a coherent mass. The firing process heats ... it in the presence of water to form a hard mass. This formed the material ...

field is to charge as acceleration is to mass and force density is to volume. ... include energy produced from wind, water, solar, thermal, hydro, combustible ...

forces is primarily a function of its mass ratio and its exhaust velocity ... The mass ratio is a way to express what proportion of the rocket is ...

apparently due to shrapnel.Views of the Solar System, [http://www.solarviews ... clustered rockets to increase the overall mass efficiency would dramatically ...

surrounding Mars may have allowed the solar wind to erode the atmosphere ... such as carbon dioxide would trap incoming solar radiation. Because the raised ...

|solar mass: |\begin{smallmatrix}M_\odot = 1.9891 \times 10^{30}\end{smallma ... seems to be about 8.3 percent of the solar mass, or about 87 times the ...

* Four terrestrial (or rocky) planets in the Solar System: Mercury ... * The orbits of four planets in the solar system lie within that of ...

is low and not directly detectable: roughly one solar mass of baryons per cubic megaparsec per year or roughly one hydrogen atom per cubic meter per ...

constituting 23 percent of the elemental mass of the universe. It is concentrated ... into space due to its inertness and low mass. In the Earth's heterosphere ...

long-term health effects. In the case of solar flares, all current habitats ... long when a Progress is attached, and has a mass of 183.3 metric tons (202 ...

* Mass transport loss (depletion of reactants at catalyst sites under ... Mass production |- | |Microbial fuel cell |Polymer membrane or humic acid ...

of two stars orbiting around their center of mass. *The Roman numeral ... *Two is the Saros number of the solar eclipse series that began on ...

standard metric system. Metric units of mass, length, and electricity are ... angles, the meter for length, the gram for mass and the liter for capacity ...

in the definition is energy generated from solar, wind, biomass, geothermal ... at a faster rate than they are consumed. Solar, wind, geothermal, hydro ...

well. However a star of sufficient mass to form such a well would ... convert on the order of 10 percent of the mass of an object into energy, ...

and providing the basis for energy from solar cells. Semiconductors ... smaller than silicon wafers thus making mass production of GaAs devices ...

methane and also less efficient relative to mass. It has also been detected ... The existence of ethane in these distant Solar System bodies may implicate ...

Normal clocks therefore indicate solar time. Astronomers studying ... to motion constituted by their magnitude or mass. For Aquinas's ...

let light into buildings but trap heat for solar heating. ... nm and 14.3 µm, making them efficient for solar energy collectors. ...

out that the hole should have the same mass as the electron. The existence ... are additive, such as charge, but not to mass, for example. The positron ...

to geostationary orbit (GSO) and a counter-mass beyond. Space elevators have ... space elevator. This is because the total mass of conventional materials ...

systems. These include electric, steam, solar, turbine, rotary, and piston ... it could be produced by economical mass-production methods; and it ...

radioactive isotopes are known, with atomic mass numbers ranging from 87 to ... actively studied for their potential in solar energy technologies. ...

* The smallest atomic mass number (the sum of protons and neutrons ... * The Saros number of the solar eclipse series which began on April ...

is more predictable than wind energy and solar power. In Europe, tide mills ... the Canadian west coast will eventually see mass production and roll out over ...

the Earth, it is a rocky body. In size and mass, it is very similar to the ... origin.C. Frankel (1996), Volcanoes of the Solar System (Cambridge: Cambridge ...

The isotopes of manganese range in atomic weight from 46 atomic mass ... (26Al and 107Pd) for the early history of the solar system. ...

multiple bodies in free motion within the Solar System. Poincaré was awarded ... of more than two orbiting bodies in the Solar System had eluded mathematicians ...

significant. Spacecraft can be buffeted by solar winds, but planets are too ... masses in the universe is found, not in the solar systems or nebulae, but in ...

In the 1920s, industrial advances allowed steel to be mass-produced ... *Solar powered fan Electric fans used for ventilation may be powered ...

ago, when the planets of the Solar System were formed out of ... Some of this object's mass merged with the Earth and a portion ...

which every star is surrounded by its own solar system; he was eventually ... century astronomers convinced that our solar system, and perhaps others ...

A well-designed sundial can measure local solar time with reasonable accuracy ... and public events), and for modeling the solar system. The former purpose ...

Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun in our solar system and is ... of the Earth. Of all the planets in the Solar System, it has the highest ...

nearby space and time. As it is often put: mass tells spacetime how to curve ... experienced by bodies due to their mass. Several physicists, including ...

short of the idea of using satellites for mass broadcasting and as telecommunications ... use of communications satellites for mass communications. ...

and drop prices to make his lamp a mass-market product. ... Panasonic was the primary sponsor of the 2007 World Solar Challenge ...

such environmentally preferred sources as solar, water power, biomass, wind ... such as biomass, hydro, geothermal, solar, wind, ocean thermal, wave ...

system, first put forward the idea of a mass public transport system for ... The Indian independence movement's call for mass non-violent ...

lubricants, sealants, computer chips, and solar cells. The simplest oxide ... Atomic Mass (u) Melting Point (º C) Boiling Point (º C) ...

of the Earth's crust (46.6% by mass), the second most common component ... The absorbed solar energy also raises the temperature of the atmosphere ...

if it were located at the center of mass of the Earth. Thus, the tidal ... frame that translates with the center of mass of the Earth. Consider ...

of 244Pu remain from the birth of the solar system from the waste of ... periodic table than uranium), by analogy to solar system planet order as Pluto ...

has also been used to check variations in solar activity and the age of ice cores. ... similar reasons. For example, the critical mass of a plutonium sphere is significantly ...

glass-like crystal, absorbs vast amounts of solar energy ... highly accurate measurements of tiny changes in mass. ==Fused quartz== ...

limit. The limit describes the maximum mass (~1.44 solar masses) of a white dwarf star, or equivalently, the minimum mass for which a star will ...

summer. An ice-free Arctic Ocean absorbs solar radiation during the long ... wind and ocean currents; variations in solar output; the orbital dynamics ...

and the quark, in that it has zero rest mass; therefore, it travels (in ... properties of photons—such as charge, mass and spin—are determined ...

18, 2018. all orbiting a common center of mass. Galaxies can also contain ... to account for around 90 percent of the mass of most galaxies. Observational ...

transistors. The very high surface area to mass ratio of graphene suggests ... Brillouin zone, leading to zero effective mass for electrons and holes. J ...

Earth’s magnetic field protects the planet from the solar wind whose ... Scientific instruments such as cyclotrons, galvanometers, and mass ...

A homogeneous universe of constant mass and growing radius accounting ... (similarly for neutrons-antineutrons), so a mass annihilation immediately followed ...

light-emitting diodes, laser diodes, and solar cells. Some of its electronic ... How Arsenic Caused The World's Worst Mass Poisoning. [http://www.macmillanscience ...

to compose only 4.6 percent of the total mass. The remainder is believed ... albedo, greenhouse gases, variations in the solar luminosity, and changes to ...

The two-year siege culminated in the mass suicide of the Jewish defenders. ... the reduced ultraviolet component of solar radiation, and the higher ...

but highly non-linearly also gravo-magnetic mass in dependence of string tension ... * Seven stellar objects in the Solar System are visible to the naked ...

Later in 499, Aryabhata, who proposed a heliocentric Solar System ... fundamental equivalence between energy and mass with his famous equation ...

with railways in transporting freight. Mass-produced cars flooded out ... stations in the state of California. BP Solar has been a leading producer ...

radicals are produced and can be detected by mass spectrometry. ... normally unreactive chlorofluorocarbons, by solar ultraviolet radiation or ...

have a similar contribution to total body mass as the flight muscles of flying ... and the tips of the feathers are black. Solar radiation is absorbed by ...

which can be used for light detection or solar cells. Mercury cadmium telluride (HgCdTe) is sensitive to infrared. == Precautions == ...

ice) areas precipitation is lower than mass loss by sublimation causing ... are typically moderate. During summer, more solar radiation reaches the surface ...

than nuclear fission—that is, per unit of mass the reactions produce far ... the Lawson criterion is gravity. The mass needed, however, is so great ...

The total mass of the hydrosphere is about 1.4 × 1021 kilograms, ... zone. The neritic encompasses the water mass directly above the continental ...

used to adjust the glider's center of mass. Although heavier gliders ... lift areas in an otherwise invisible air mass can therefore be realized ...

through slumping and other forms of mass wasting, as well as through ... whole, 24 percent of the Earth's land mass is mountainous.[https://web ...

temperatures for different parts of the solar disk. They determined that ... New Liberal Arts Series. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press. ISBN 026203199X ...

The original observation of fullerenes in mass spectrometry was not anticipated, ... and the first mass-production technique by Krätschmer and Huffman ...

of harmony and unity. During a year of a solar eclipse, it is typical for ... in modern times due to the availability of mass-produced plastic lanterns ...

:From the Son of Heaven down to the mass of the people, all must ... such as floods, earthquakes, locusts, and solar eclipses, since these were ...

in Lake Superior to cover the entire land mass of North and South America ... cover. Less winter ice cover allows more solar radiation to penetrate the ...

the Turkish and Byzantine invasions and the mass migration of the Armenians ... motion and periodicity of lunar and solar eclipses. Accepting the roundness ...

including the Earth's location in the Solar System. If Earth were about ... (or ice, if cool enough) will fail to lose mass through evaporation when exposed ...

makeup, the province is also rich in solar, wind and geothermal energy ... East Asian monographs, 266. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Asia Center ...

or longer), whether caused by natural (solar changes, etc.) or anthropogenic ... forcings such as modulations of the solar cycles, volcanic eruptions ...

Copernicus had argued that the Earth is not the center of the Solar ... constants (the gravitational constant, the mass of the proton, the age of ...

of the prismatic analysis of light to solar and stellar chemistry had ... science of biofluorescence. Cambridge, Mass: Belknap Press of Harvard ...

in the Earth's crust (0.63 percent by mass) and is present in most igneous ... which when exposed to UV light (either solar or man-made) and moisture ...

| Molar mass | 47.998 g/mol |- | Appearance | bluish colored gas ... atmospheric circulation patterns as well as solar intensity. ...

Day (Anglo-Saxon hlaf-mas, "loaf-mass"), the festival of the ... In Wicca, Lughnasadh is one of the eight "sabbats" or solar ...

which means it takes more fuel (volume and mass) to produce the same amount ... from water and state-of-the-art clean solar thermal energy processes. ...

charged particles coming from the solar wind. In addition, people ... magnets of various shapes can be easily mass-produced. The resulting magnets ...

to produce a protonema, which is either a mass of thread-like filaments or ... or those exposed to high levels of direct solar radiation (Schuster 1966 ...

may lose 30-60 percent of their body mass and still recover. ... in the summer. In turn, changes in solar insolation are caused by ...

is available, where heat is derived from solar collectors, or electricity ... refrigeration cycle will require a large mass flow rate and would be bulky. ...

2, which indicates the relationship between mass and energy (or mass-energy ... E = m c^2, suggesting that tiny amounts of mass could be converted into huge ...

to the highest mountains. Elsewhere in the solar system, the vast polar ice ... below the freezing point, so most of their mass loss is due to sublimation ...

|- | Electron affinity || -53 kJ/mol 702 | 1470 | 2850 135 183 156 color1=#ffc0c0 | color2=black no data 50.6 7440-26-8 isotopesof=technetium ...

platform, with a number of shrines for the solar bark along the side of the ... However all its passageways "had become blocked by a solidified ...

it is used in photocells, light meters and solar cells. * It was once widely used in rectifiers. These uses, however, have been or are being ...

research in the whole field of solar energy." Arjun Makhijani ... to produce and use weapons. The weapons of mass destruction used in chemical ...

It is a contraction meaning "Christ's mass." The name ... the Roman Empire. Its god, Mithras, was a solar deity of Persian origin, ...

night services (also called Watch-night Mass) are held late on New Year ... the lunar calendar and is corrected for the solar every three years. The holiday ...

be defined as the ratio of the mass m (in kg) of X in the box to its ... lifetime. GWP is measured relative to the same mass of CO|2 ...

although other sources of heat such as solar power, nuclear power ... the pressure vessel has considerable mass, which reduces the acceleration ...

he burned charcoal in a closed vessel, the mass of the resulting ash was much ... net/solar_cola/carbon_dioxide.htm Solar Navigator on Carbon Dioxide ...

of the heliocentric model of the solar system. Among other scientific ... of the idea of the interchangeability of mass and energy: "Gross bodies ...

(temperature, food supplies, degree of solar illumination, etc.). Of course ... The twentieth century saw a major renewal of interest in mass extinction ...

is caused by the volcano's effect on solar radiation reaching the surface ... world’s reef systems to die. Since then, mass coral bleaching has become ...

With other leading mass producers of the automobile, General Motors ... the Sunraycer which won the inaugural World Solar Challenge and was a showcase ...

were examined at the National Science Foundation Mass Spectrometry Center of Excellence at the University of Nebraska. Pyrolysis-mass-spectrometry ...

| Molar mass | 17.0304 g/mol |- | Appearance | Colorless gas with strong ... -33.3 °C and solidifies at -77.7 °C to a mass of white crystals. ...

of consciousness symbolized by the upper solar region of heaven. From this ... As with other psychologies which have infiltrated mass thought, archetypes ...

The most important factors are heating by solar radiation, radiational cooling ... normally compresses the snow to a hard mass. Shovels are essential for ...

and gave him the means to measure the mass of the gold wreath. He was ... Aristarchus of Samos' theory of the solar system, concluding that it ...

imaging agents), therapeutics and in organic solar cells. ==Carbon nanotubes== [[Image:Kohlenstoffnanoroehre Animation.gif|frame|This animation ...

parts per thousand (3.3 - 3.7 percent) by mass and varies with latitude and ... and reflect the latitudinal distribution of solar energy, range from 28 - 84°F ...

the former abandonment of concelebration of Mass, so that priests always celebrated ... Rome, in which case the priest celebrating Mass faced the congregation and ...

air from a thunderstorm is blown through a mass of stationary, warm, moist ... dependent on the time of day, because of solar heating. Worldwide, most ...

because its original sense, poison is a mass noun like the English word ... materials, self-assembly, liquid crystals, solar cells, batteries, fuel cells ...

civilizations on other planets outside our solar system—Scientologists do ... Since its inception, the Church of Scientology has made use of mass ...

skeptics hold the incident to be an example of mass hysteria. ... which sea water turning sweet that led to mass hysteria in Mumbai. ...

The Enlightenment was a time when the solar system was truly discovered: With the accurate calculation of orbits, such as Halley's comet ...

In the Himalayas, the rate at which an air mass's temperature falls per ... winds originating from a high-pressure mass centered over the southern ...

of the ecosystem is based on the input of solar energy. Plants and photosynthetic ... primary productivity (the increase in the mass of plants during a given time ...

depiction of the true story of a historic mass escape from a World War II ... 908 was entered by his production company Solar Productions as a camera car ...

(the kernels) never fuse into a single mass. The grains are about the ... 7,500 to 12,000 years ago (corrected for solar variations). Recent genetic ...

of the lunar Muslim calendar in favor of a solar calendar more useful for ... liked Hindu festivals, but promoted mass conversion to Islam; he persecuted ...

is mandatory in the rite of the Tridentine Mass. Salt is used in the third ... salt, and is now often called sea salt or solar salt. Refined salt is also ...

Wovoka reported a vision he experienced during a solar eclipse on January 1, 1889, in which he had stood before God in Heaven, and had seen many ...

that the Davidians were going to commit mass suicide, as had happened in ... reflection theory using the principles of solar geometry. Cox's Sun ...

ice caps and similar planets in other solar systems may have oceans. ... Sea temperature depends on the amount of solar radiation falling on ...

(1994) Their land has been confiscated for mass agricultural purposes and ... * Conroy, Ronan. Solar Disinfection of Drinking Water and Diarrhea ...

sheet, which covers over 80 percent of its land mass. It is a self ... in summer, allowing them to absorb more solar radiation and warm more than ...

uprising spread throughout the island, and mass slaughter of Frenchmen occurred ... the center. The Trinacria is most likely a solar symbol, although most recently ...

Thai is the national language and is used for education and mass communication ... The Thai solar calendar is based on the Eastern version of the Buddhist ...

to a great variety of unpainted pottery mass-produced by specialists on ... formulating a heliocentric view of the solar system, to which they assigned ...

elements of Iraqi society and mobilizing mass support, he closely followed ... #039;s cease fire, by developing weapons of mass destruction and other banned ...

water vapor condensing at high altitudes, with solar heating being the initial source for evaporation. Therefore, a tropical cyclone can be visualized ...

been developed using recombinant DNA to mass produce medically important ... into a rapidly reproducing bacteria to mass produce the protein. As a ...

In 2006, the world's largest solar power plant began operating ... Church, but only about 19 percent attend Mass and take the sacraments regularly ...

damaged the Inuit way of life, causing mass death through new diseases ... father figures. There are no wind gods and solar creators. There are no eternal ...

evolved as a protection against ultraviolet solar radiation, as melanin is ... the development and use of weapons of mass destruction, and increased ...

and support of elite sectors of the mass communications media. It was ... energy, Carter wore sweaters, installed solar power panels on the roof ...

East Germany for political change, and mass demonstrations involving eventually ... sources (including hydro, wind, and solar power) (6 percent), and oil ...

have been mascons—concentrations of high mass that could have altered the ... #039;s trans-lunar injection remains in a solar orbit near to that of Earth. ...

in ethnically mixed cities, leading to mass nationalist movements. ... renewable energy sources such as wind, solar and biomass powerplants, ...