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  • two drainage basins; that is, the ridge of high land or boundary separating ... People live particular watersheds (in the sense of drainage basin ...
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  • "lead") is the skilled trade of working with pipes, tubing ... plumbing fixtures, and equipment such as water heaters. The plumbing industry ...
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  • – Xenon] Thermophysical properties of neon, argon, krypton, and xenon ... This element can be extracted by fractional distillation of liquid ...
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  • In geology, evaporites are water-soluble, mineral sediments that result ... nitrates are important for the manufacture of fertilizers and explosives. ...
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  • Boiling is the process of rapidly converting a liquid to its gaseous ... The boiling point of a substance is the temperature at which it can ...
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  • Thales (in Greek: Θαλης) of Miletus (ca. 624 – 546 b.c.e.) ... arbitrary will, tricks, anger, and jealousy of the gods, Thales tried to explain ...
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  • or physical process. Some examples of mixtures are oil, ocean water ... are uniformly spread, so that any amount of the mixture has the same composition ...
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  • In human spaceflight, a life support system is a group of devices ... A crew member of typical size requires a total of approximately 5 ...
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  • tames the Nile River and utilizes the power of the river for a variety of ... The Aswan Dam is a rock fill dam, a type of dam that relies on compacted ...
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  • An aqueduct is an artificial channel that is constructed to convey ... Aqueducts have been built to supply water to large cities and to irrigate ...
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  • A drought is an extended period of months or years when a region notes ... Drought is a normal, recurring feature of the climate in most parts ...
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  • An estuary is a semi-enclosed coastal body of water where freshwater ... means "tide" or "boiling (of the sea)." ...
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  • pressure exerted by the atmosphere by using water, air, or mercury. From the ... This concept of "decreasing atmospheric pressure predicts stormy ...
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  • Gas is one of the four major states or phases of matter, along with ... Gas exists in the middle of a heating continuum in which heating the ...
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  • contain fossils and often form reservoirs of petroleum and other hydrocarbons ... is called fissility. Non-fissile rocks of similar composition but made ...
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  • that is directly involved in the promotion of cancer or in the facilitation ... Common examples of carcinogens are tobacco smoke, inhaled asbestos ...
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  • deposited by a river or other running water. Alluvium is typically made ... A river continually picks up and drops solid particles of rock and ...
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  • the first to measure the average density of the earth using the gravitational ... His mother was Lady Anne Gray, daughter of the Duke of Kent and his father ...
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  • The Arabian Sea is located in the northwestern part of the Indian ... The Sea provides an important link between the neighboring areas of ...
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  • It contains 21 percent nitrogen in the form of ammonium ions and 24 percent ... Ammonium sulfate is a salt of ammonia and sulfuric acid, and its chemical ...
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