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  • was marked by a massive continental collision between the southern end of the Iberian peninsula and the European plate. However, this continental ...
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  • The first official Space Shuttle collision avoidance maneuver was ... debris fragments resulting from a collision are plotted with respect ...
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  • Its northern limit is defined by the Zagros collision zone, a mountainous uplift where a continental collision between the Arabian Plate and ...
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  • was created in the early Devonian by the collision of Laurentia and Baltica ... began to uplift deep water deposits, a collision that was the prelude to ...
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  • of the vehicle to determine when a collision has occurred and the severity of the collision. Accelerometers are perhaps the simplest MEMS device ...
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  • [[Image:First Gold Beam-Beam Collision Events at RHIC at 100 100 GeV c per beam recorded by STAR.jpg|thumb|right|400px|Particles erupt from the ...
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  • English, it is described as "the collision of two bodies to produce a sound." The usage of the term is not unique to music but has ...
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  • a nuclear reaction can involve the collision of more than two nuclei ... nuclear reaction, it is initiated by the collision. If the particles collide ...
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  • motion of 29 km/s (18 miles per second), collision speeds can reach 71 km/s ... chance of a daylight (or near daylight) collision with Earth, as Earth orbits ...
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  • A collision with a vehicle is capable of killing a kangaroo. Kangaroos ... bars" to minimize damage caused by collision. Mounted devices, designed ...
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  • impression of a major impact event. The collision between Earth and an asteroid ... The observation of the Shoemaker-Levy 9 cometary collision with Jupiter ...
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  • What some say caused the first axial shift was the collision of tribal ... The second axial shift, then, represents the collision of earlier ...
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  • but it is typically short-lived because any collision with a proton will cause both particles to be annihilated in a burst of energy. It was discovered ...
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  • of collisions with other particles through collision theory, the application of force to a surface may not be infinitely constant for such values ...
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  • was created in the early Devonian by the collision of Laurentia and Baltica ... eastern North America. This continental collision resulted in the Hercynian ...
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  • of natural laws governing the motion and collision of matter. It follows that ... entirely in terms of the motion and collision of material bodies, whereas ...
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  • The second most important process is the collision and wake capture process, occurring in clouds with warmer tops, in which the collision of ...
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  • ===Automobile collision in the U.S.A.=== In the 1950s Meher Baba established ... ===Automobile collision in India=== On December 2, 1956, outside Satara ...
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  • suffered a separated shoulder in the collision, but it went undiagnosed ... * Reston, James. Collision at Home Plate: The Lives of Pete Rose and ...
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  • the loss of the said ship was due to collision with an iceberg, brought ... of the tragic loss of lives. After the collision with the iceberg, one hour ...
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  • to each other. Many aircraft now carry collision avoidance systems that ... from the on-board automatic Traffic Collision Avoidance System software ...
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  • theories of universal order, and brought him into collision with the popular faith. He attempted to give a scientific account of eclipses, meteors, rainbows ...
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  • The geological process and study of the movement, collision and division ... earlier cycles of subduction, continental collision, and break-up from plate ...
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  • is large compared to the electron-neutral collision frequency (measuring frequency ... gyration around the magnetic field before making a collision. ...
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  • partial t}\left.{\!\!\frac{}{}}\right|_\mathrm{collision} ... The form of the collision term assumed by Boltzmann was approximate ...
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  • unique underground ridges. After the initial collision of the two land masses, the Arabian Sea has been shaped by a variety of highly influential factors ...
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  • effect to both motorist and animal. In a collision of this nature, a car& ... in regions where there is a danger of collision with the animal. The triangular ...
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  • empirically determined parameters: the collision diameter (σ), the maximum ... * {\sigma} = the collision diameter (Å) *{\epsilon}/{\kappa} = the ...
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  • htm Angular Momentum in a Collision Process] - derivation of the three dimensional case. Category:Physical sciences Category:Physics ...
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  • movement of falling in a straight line), collision (forced movement resulting ... or gravity) and the movement caused by collision, Epicurus introduced a ...
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  • easily, the east is regarded as on some sort of collision course with the West, a notion that has been promoted by talk of a clash of civilizations ...
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  • after his involvement in an early morning auto collision—he had been drinking, hit another car and then left the scene of the accident. ...
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  • towards the other. The first to swerve to avoid a collision loses. In such a game, the optimal outcome is to have your opponent swerve. The worst outcome ...
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  • safety device that automatically inflates upon collision to protect the riders from serious injury. Audi, [http://www.audi.com/audi/com/en2/tools/gloss ...
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  • | This cluster is actually two galaxy clusters in collision. |- | Burbidge Chain | | |- | Copeland Septet | | |- | Deer Lick Group ...
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  • spacing between atoms and the creation of various collision products. Subsequent chemical and particle analysis of the target material may give insight ...
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  • the risk and severity of a spill in case of a collision or grounding. == Estimating the volume of a spill == For an oil spill on water, one can ...
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  • Because collision with other gliders is an ever-present risk, the anti-collision device, FLARM is becoming increasingly common in Europe and ...
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  • Kashmir lies in the area of collision of the Eurasian and Indian tectonic plates. The geological activity that precipitated the collision, lay ...
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  • and part of the material ejected into space by the collision underwent accretion to form the Moon. As the Moon formed, the outer part of it is thought ...
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  • Collision with icebergs constitutes a serious hazard for shipping near the polar regions. A well-known example is the sinking of the RMS Titanic ...
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  • deplete their lithium. This occurs by a collision of Lithium-7 and a proton ... CH4, H2O, and molecular hydrogen (H2) collision-induced absorption (CIA ...
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  • SSN-772|6 in dry dock, following collision with a fishing boat.]] A dry dock is a narrow basin or vessel that can be flooded to allow a load to ...
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  • collided with the Eurasian Plate, and the collision of the two plates pushed ... and Vanuatu, were pushed up by the collision of the Australian plate ...
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  • emits a flash of light upon an alpha particle collision. Rutherford hypothesized that, assuming the "plum pudding" model of the atom was ...
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  • during a metamorphic period brought on by the collision of ancient volcanic island arcs with the southern end of what we now know as Wyoming. The lighter ...
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  • off the surface of the platter should a collision occur. However, this head ... head crash, external trauma (dropping or collision), power surges, and so ...
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  • India landmass (Indian Plate) before its collision with Asia (Eurasian Plate ... formation is a result of a continental collision or orogeny along the convergent ...
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  • sedimentary rocks until there was a collision between the North American continent and a terrane. This collision, called the Trans-Hudsonian ...
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  • include attrition which is particle to particle collision that results in agglomerate break up or particle shearing. Compression which is applying compressive ...
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