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  • The term soft drink—more commonly known as soda, pop, or soda pop ... (though not always) carbonated. By contrast, the term "hard drink" ...
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  • sedimentary rock composed primarily of carbon, along with other assorted ... as collapsing mines and gas explosions. In addition, mining methods can ...
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  • odorless, heavy noble gas that occurs in the Earth's atmosphere ... Xenon is a trace gas in the Earth's atmosphere, occurring in ...
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  • Nitrogen (symbol N, atomic number 7) is the chief constituent of the ... In living organisms, nitrogen atoms are part of the molecular structures ...
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  • The Mesozoic (from the Greek prefix meso meaning “between” and ... After the great extinction event at the end of the Paleozoic era, ...
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  • Sulfuric acid (or sulphuric acid in British English) is a strong mineral ... Sulfuric acid has many applications, and is produced in greater amounts ...
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  • :This article is about the chemical element. number=16 | symbol=S ... stable compounds with all elements except the noble gases. Abundant in nature ...
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  • :This article is about the French mathematician and physicist. For ... and government administrator during the reign of Napoleon who is best ...
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  • space humanization, or space habitation) is the concept of permanent, autonomous ... Many people think of space colonies on the Moon or Mars, but others ...
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  • Venus is the second-closest planet to the Sun, orbiting it every 224 ... planet” or “Earth’s twin,” as the two are similar in size and ...
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  • Ecology or ecological science, is the scientific study of the distribution ... Ecology may be more simply defined as the relationship between living ...
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  • by seawater and chlorine. It is used in strong, lightweight alloys ... The element occurs in numerous minerals with the main sources being ...
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  • The general term "ice age" or, more precisely, "glacial ... More colloquially, when speaking of the last few million years, "the ...
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  • Planetary habitability is the measure of a planet's or a natural ... An absolute requirement for life is an energy source, and the notion ...
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  • from space that impinge on Earth's atmosphere. Almost 90 percent of all ... sources--ranging from energetic processes on the Sun all the way to the farthest ...
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  • its reactivity with air, it is never found in its pure form in nature. In ... sulfate is useful for X-ray diagnostics of the digestive system and as a ...
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  • sour taste and pungent smell. It is one of the simplest carboxylic acids ... reagent and industrial chemical useful for the production of various synthetic ...
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  • Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun in our solar system and is ... Like the Earth, Mars has a rocky surface and polar ice caps. Its rotational ...
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  • Earth is the third planet in the solar system in terms of distance ... Since its formation, the Earth has been transformed through various ...
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  • The haloalkanes (also known as halogenoalkanes or alkyl halides) are ... chlorine, bromine and iodine results in fluoroalkanes, chloroalkanes ...
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