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  • Category:Sociologists Mannheim, Karl Karl Mannheim (March 27, 1893 – January 9, 1947) was a Hungarian-born sociologist, one of the founding ...
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  • Astatine (chemical symbol At, atomic number 85) is the rarest naturally occurring chemical element. It is a member of the halogen family of elements ...
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  • The term xylene refers to a group of three benzene derivatives, each of which has two methyl functional groups attached to the benzene ring. ...
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  • Boyle's law (sometimes called the Boyle-Mariotte law) is one of several gas laws and a special case of the ideal gas law. Boyle's law ...
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  • A spring is a flexible, elastic device used to store mechanical energy. When a force is applied to a spring, it expands or contracts to a certain ...
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  • In the Standard Model of particle physics, a meson is a composite subatomic particle comprising one quark and one antiquark. Mesons are part ...
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  • Nitrogen dioxide is a chemical compound with the formula NO2. It is one of the several nitrogen oxides. At ordinary temperatures and atmospheric ...
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  • Butane, also called n-butane (normal butane), is an unbranched alkane with four carbon atoms in each molecule. Its molecular formula may be written ...
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  • Fahrenheit is a temperature scale named after Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (1686–1736), a German physicist who did most of his work in the Netherlands ...
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  • Potassium (chemical symbol K, atomic number 19) is a member of a group of chemical elements known as alkali metals. It is a soft metal and is ...
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  • Argon (chemical symbol Ar, atomic number 18) is a member of the noble gas family of elements. It is present in the Earth's atmosphere at ...
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  • Silane is a chemical compound with the chemical formula SiH4. It is the silicon analog of methane and, like methane, it is a gas at ordinary ...
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  • John Kenneth Galbraith (October 15, 1908 – April 29, 2006) was an influential Canadian-American economist. He was a Keynesian and an institutionalist ...
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  • When liquid helium-4 is cooled to a temperature close to absolute zero, it acquires an unusual set of properties known as superfluidity, and ...
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  • In music, a serenade (or sometimes serenata) is a musical composition and/or performance in someone's honor, originally songs of courtship ...
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  • Mica is an important group of rock-forming silicate minerals, belonging to the subgroup called phyllosilicates. The group consists of more than ...
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  • Vacuoles are membrane-bound compartments within some eukaryotic cells that serve a variety of secretory, excretory, and storage functions. These ...
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  • Wade-Giles ( ˌweɪdˈʤaɪlz ; s=威妥玛拼音 or 韦氏拼音|t=威妥瑪拼音 or 韋氏拼音|p=wēituǒmǎ pīnyīn ), sometimes abbreviated ...
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  • David Kellogg Lewis (September 28, 1941 – October 14, 2001) is considered by many philosophers and observers of philosophy to have been one ...
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  • An antiproton (symbol Antiproton , pronounced p-bar) is the antiparticle of the proton. An antiproton is relatively stable, but it is typically ...
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