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  • Celsius (or centigrade) is a temperature scale named after the Swedish ... The Celsius scale has been adopted as a standard for regular temperature ...
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  • ores and is important as a trace element in the human body. It is used in ... Cobalt compounds are used in the production of inks, paints, and varnishes ...
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  • 2 (two) is a number, numeral, and glyph that represents the number ... The number two also represents a pair or duality. In biology, sexual ...
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  • inventor. He is believed to have built the first self-propelled mechanical ... of a Jesuit mission in China, may have been the first to build a 'car ...
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  • branch of astronomy that focuses on the study of celestial objects ... Astronomers have discovered various types of X-ray sources in the ...
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  • There are many physical constants in science. Some of the most widely ... * the rationalized Planck's constant ħ, * the gravitational constant ...
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  • or solute (substance in solution) binds to the surface of a solid or liquid ... systems. For example, activated carbon, the most common adsorbent, is ...
    19 KB (2,837 words) - 06:18, 15 June 2023
  • publisher, and spelling reformer. He was the co-founder of Funk & Wagnalls. Funk founded the I.K. Funk & Company in 1876. The firm's ...
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  • ethyl chloride is produced according to the chemical equation. ... At various times in the past, ethyl chloride has also been produced ...
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  • Union politician and General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet ... Siberia. He joined Komsomol in 1926 and the Communist Party in 1931. After ...
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  • Fisher is the common name for a largely arboreal, North American carnivorous ... With its speed and agility, the fisher is a remarkable predator that ...
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  • :This article is about the hypothetical class of particles. ... serving as one possible solution to the dark matter problem. They ...
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  • ghosts, spirits, and black magic, based on the award-winning novel of the ... Ananthabhadram won five awards in the Kerala State Film Awards 2005 ...
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  • to its intense radioactivity, it glows in the dark with a pale blue light ... more commonly made in milligram amounts by the neutron irradiation of 226Ra ...
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  • According to the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram, The Hertzsprung-Russell ... a red dwarf star is a small and relatively cool star of the main sequence ...
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  • :This article is about the geometric shape. Reg polyhedron stat table|C ... or sides, with three meeting at each vertex. The cube can also be called a ...
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  • Lemur is the common name for any of the prosimian primates belonging ... large eyes with a reflective layer over the retina; a tail, if present ...
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  • as evidence or argument for anything; the exception being when a tautology ... formal two-valued logic (i.e. logic based on the two principles: (1) that nothing ...
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  • was a Japanese theoretical physicist and the first Japanese person to win ... in theoretical physics, particularly in the theory of elementary particles ...
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  • :This article is about the chemical compound. {{Chembox new ... point and a characteristic smell. It is the most common member of a class ...
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