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  • a unit weight. The tension in each line is half the unit weight, yielding ... allows a unit weight to be lifted with only half the force needed to lift the ...
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  • countries. 232Th decays very slowly (its half-life is about three times the ... radioactive isotope: 232Th, which has a half-life of 14.05 billion years ...
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  • all his psychophysical energies in the spiritual life. ==Symbolism== ... bones of sage Dadhichi who gave up his life willingly for a noble cause ...
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  • == Life == Charles Prestwich Scott was born on October 26, 1846 in ... and had been editor for exactly 57-and-a-half years. His successor as editor ...
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  • most stable radioisotopes are: 46Sc, with a half-life of 83.8 days; 47Sc, with a half-life of 3.35 days; and 48Sc, with a half-life of 43.7 hours ...
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  • do not include the tonic triad, such as half cadences and deceptive cadences ... on the tonic, a second phrase ends with a half cadence, then a final, longer ...
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  • with the most stable being 160Gd with a half-life of more than 1.3×1021 years (the decay is not observed, only the lower limit on the half-life ...
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  • The most long-lived ones are 150Nd, with a half-life (T½) of >1.1×1019 years; 144Nd, with a half-life of 2.29×1015 years; and 147Nd, with a ...
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  • with the most stable being 138La with a half-life of 105×109 years, and ... LaB6 are used in high brightness, extended life, thermionic electron emission ...
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  • radioactive isotopes, some with a half-life of up to 373.59 days. Therefore ... the longest half-lives are: 106Ru, with a half-life of 373.59 days; 103Ru, ...
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  • longest-lived radioisotopes are 107Pd, with a half-life of 6.5 million years; 103Pd, with a half-life of 17 days; and 100Pd, with a half-life of 3.63 ...
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  • It was in the secluded country life of Devon that he wrote some of ... ::An hour or half's delight, :::And so to bid good-night? ...
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  • Lone Horn, he was cousin to Crazy Horse and half brother of Sitting Bull. He ... traditions. He encouraged them to adapt to life on the reservation by developing ...
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  • body rips apart at the constriction. Each half grows replacements of the ... This also means that if a flatworm is cut in half, each half will ...
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  • isotopes, but they have such long half-lives that they can be considered ... The most stable of these are 181W, with a half-life of 121.2 days; 185W, with ...
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  • The radioactive isotope with the longest half-life is Y-88 (half-life of 106.65 days), followed by Y-91 (half-life of 58.51 days). Nearly all ...
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  • derived elements are radioactive with short half-lives so that any such atoms ... And in the second half of the twentieth century physics laboratories ...
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  • abundance). The radioisotope 142Ce has a half-life of greater than 5×1016 years. characterized, including 144Ce, with a half-life of 284.893 days; 139Ce ...
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  • entitled The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, which ... ==Early life and slavery== By his own account, Olaudah Equiano's ...
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  • and secular literature in the first half of the nineteenth century ... of thinking and feeling pervaded Belinsky’s life. In 1934, Belinsky ...
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