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  • The chromatic scale is the scale that contains all twelve pitches ... All the other scales in traditional Western music are subsets of this ...
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  • The scientific definition of a machine is any device that transmits ... Generally these devices decrease the amount of force required to do a given ...
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  • gray-white metal that combines with other elements in various proportions. ... The greatest demand for manganese is for the production of iron and ...
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  • the two difficult to separate. About half of all hafnium metal manufactured ... Hafnium (Latin Hafnia for "Copenhagen," the hometown of ...
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  • Uncertainty is a term used in subtly different ways in a number of ... The philosophical problematics of uncertainty are often tied to a ...
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  • his light, elegant, and airy style and the list of his buildings includes ... Adam was born in Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland, the second son of William ...
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  • found as an alloy in platinum ore. It is one of the densest natural elements. ... The compound osmium tetroxide is very toxic but has a number of important ...
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  • a rare, silver-white metal. It is a member of the platinum group of elements ... addition, this element is useful in a number of other applications, including ...
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  • properties are intermediate between those of metals and nonmetals. It is ... The development of the germanium transistor opened the door to numerous ...
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  • to blue. It belongs to the same family of chemical elements as arsenic ... This element expands on freezing and was long an important component ...
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  • is a rare, hard, white metal. It is a member of the platinum group of elements ... platinum group metals in the Ural Mountains of western Russia and in parts ...
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  • George Gershwin (September 26, 1898 – July 11, 1937), one of America ... Many of his compositions have been used in cinema, and are recognized ...
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  • is a soft, silvery-white metallic element of the alkali metal group. Rb ... and zinnwaldite, which contains traces of up to one percent of its oxide ...
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  • ancient philosophical and ascetic movement of the Indian subcontinent. Philosophically ... The Ajivikas believed that transmigration of the human soul was determined ...
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  • Faience or faïence is the conventional name in English for fine tin ... of a lead glaze, was a major advance in the history of pottery. A ...
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  • A library classification is a system of coding and organizing library ... Library classification forms part of the field of library and information ...
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  • In mathematics and computing, an algorithm is a finite sequence of ... as an algorithm that has nested sets of smaller algorithms within it ...
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  • alkali strontium hydroxide. The properties of strontium are closest to those ... is widely used in the glass screens of color television sets. Strontium ...
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  • is commonly regarded as the fundamental unit of counting and measurement. For ... known as the "identity element" of multiplication (or multiplicative ...
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  • extreme care. It has been used in a number of murders, earning the nickname ... for low-temperature measurements. Crystals of thallium bromide-iodide have ...
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  • temperature and melts in the hand. It is one of only a few materials that expands ... Gallium is most commonly used in the form of the compound gallium ...
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  • In physics, thermal conductivity, k, is the property of a material ... Conduction is the most significant means of heat transfer in a solid ...
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  • a red dwarf star is a small and relatively cool star of the main sequence ... very low mass, generally no more than 40 percent of the ...
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  • human body. It is used in the preparation of wear-resistant, high-strength ... Cobalt compounds are used in the production of inks, paints, and varnishes ...
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  • is a silvery white, soft metal. It has one of the highest melting points ... free in nature. The main commercial source of molybdenum is the mineral molybdenite ...
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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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  • was a leading American essayist and author of children's literature ... ironic onlooker, exploring the complexities of modern society, the unique ...
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  • == Evolution of the glyph == Image:Evolution5glyph.png The evolution of our modern glyph for five cannot be neatly traced ...
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  • chemical element that belongs to the group of metalloids—its chemical properties ... with care. Exposure to even small amounts of tellurium can generate a garlicky ...
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  • The purified metal is primarily used by the nuclear industry to form ... In nature, zirconium is found combined with other elements but has ...
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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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  • 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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  • The Three Kingdoms Period of Korea (hangul: 삼국시대) featured ... Kingdoms." Founded soon after the fall of Gojoseon, the three city-states ...
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