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  • 17) is a nonmetal that belongs to a group of chemical elements known as ... in nature and necessary for most forms of life, including human life ...
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  • and many xenon compounds have been made by now.[http://periodic.lanl.gov/elements/54 ... This element can be extracted by fractional distillation of liquid ...
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  • traditional homes (Indonesian: Rumah adat) of the Minangkabau (also known ... painted floral carvings. Every aspect of the house has a symbolic significance ...
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  • Its chemical properties are similar to those of zinc, and it is found in zinc ... plastics stabilizers, and many kinds of solder. In nuclear reactors ...
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  • A controlled vocabulary is a set of preselected terms from which a ... Vocabulary control includes policies, procedures, and methodologies ...
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  • injuries, or other physical conditions by operative manual and instrumental ... surgery is performed, or simply the office of a physician, dentist, or veterinarian ...
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  • A chemical reaction is a process that leads to the interconversion ... the reactants, and the substances produced by the reaction are called the ...
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  • sexual reproduction requires the mating of two organisms, male and female ... ==Evolution of the glyph== [[Image:Evolution2glyph.png|thumb|400px|left]] ...
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  • distinguished from other manned spacecraft by its lack of major propulsion ... astronauts to live in space for periods of weeks or months, occasionally ...
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  • this sense can be known before one knows any of these other propostions. Not ... further results. To axiomatize a system of knowledge is to show that all ...
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  • † 443 B.C.E. in Argos), was one of the canonical nine poets of ... a poet that, although only a tiny fraction of his works have survived, what ...
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  • Trotskyism is the theory of Marxism as advocated by Leon Trotsky. ... The Trotskyists faced a crisis during WWII, as many of them supported ...
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  • == Evolution of the glyph == Image:Evolution6glyph.png The evolution of our modern glyph for 6 appears rather simple when ...
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  • combined in several minerals and is one of the 26 elements that commonly ... Vanadium was originally discovered by Andrés Manuel del Río, a Spanish ...
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  • 1899 and 1918. It has had several periods of revival since then and is still ... sheet music for piano. Being a modification of the then popular march, it ...
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  • The magma may be derived from partial melts of pre-existing rocks in the Earth ... Igneous rocks make up approximately 95 percent of the upper part of ...
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  • Arnold Geulincx (1624 - 1669), sometimes known by the pseudonym Philaretus ... Geulincx served as professor at the University of Leuven, Belgium ...
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  • reasons, lead has been used during much of human history. Lead and its ... and arsenic. Lead is mentioned in the Book of Exodus. Lead pipes that bear ...
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  • for "discoveries in the chemistry of the transuranium elements" ... , contributed to the discovery and isolation of ten elements, developed ...
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  • artist. He is well known for a number of witty and amusing images. Surrealism ... Magritte was born in Lessines, Belgium, in 1898, the eldest son of ...
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