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  • Nuclear fission is the splitting of the nucleus of an atom into parts ... Nuclear fission produces energy for nuclear power and to drive the ...
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  • Agricultural technology refers to technology for the production of ... the most revolutionary and impactful areas of modern technology, driven by ...
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  • :This article elaborates on the central technology of generating nuclear ... the chain reaction occurs in a fraction of a second and is uncontrolled ...
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  • A ceiling fan is a device suspended from the ceiling of a room, with ... In the summer, the direction of rotation of the blades is set to blow ...
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  • He is best known as a part-owner and leader of Sears, Roebuck and Company ... Over the course of his life, Rosenwald and his fund donated over ...
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  • The State of Florida is located in the southeastern region of the ... United States Department of Energy. [http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/states/sep ...
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  • for nonviolent social change, and one of the most influential American ... elf," rather than the common image of the austere, serious pacifist ...
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  • The World Bank Group is a group of five international organizations ... in some areas. By convention, the United States nominates the head ...
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  • Maple syrup is a sweet syrup (thick, sticky solution of sugar and ... Maple syrup is one of innumerable products that people obtain from ...
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  • white-spotted black borders. It is a member of the milkweed butterflies (family ... The monarch butterfly is perhaps the most well-known of all the butterflies ...
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  • insomnia, and help prevent or offset the effects of depression. increases, and as the population in the United States ages links between ...
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  • nonmetal that belongs to the nitrogen group of chemical elements. Given its ... When purified artificially, several different allotropic forms of ...
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  • United States Department of Energy. [http://www.eere.energy.gov/states/stat ... United States Department of Energy. [http://tonto.eia.doe.gov/state/state_e ...
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  • Industrial engineering is the branch of engineering concerned with ... Industrial engineering draws upon the principles and methods of engineering ...
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  • |country = United States |coor = ... |free = Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools ...
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  • Colorado is a state located in the Rocky Mountain region of the United ... Colorado is one of only four states in the United States to share ...
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  • and author, widely recognized as the founder of Reform Judaism in the United ... Czech Republic before emigrating to the United States in 1846. An early ...
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  • Houston is the fourth-largest city in the United States of America ... in the United States with a population of 5.6 million. Houston was ...
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  • Salmon is the common name for several species of large food and game ... in freshwater lakes—probably as a legacy of the last period of glaciation—salmon ...
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  • Denver is the capital and the most populous city of Colorado, in the ... arts and performing arts scene, dozens of annual outdoor festivals. More ...
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  • is a hydrocarbon belonging to the group of alkynes. It is considered to ... who identified it as a "new carburet of hydrogen." It was rediscovered ...
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  • river in the Pacific Northwest region of North America. It stretches ... The taming of the river for human use, and the industrial waste that ...
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  • found in formations in the Earth consisting of a complex mixture of hydrocarbons ... (petrol), both important "primary energy" sources. In a typical ...
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  • Black powder is the original gunpowder; it was one of the few known ... is that when fired it produces a cloud of smoke. This smoke obscures ...
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  • Texas is a state located in the south-central United States. Austin ... and has a steadily growing population of 23.9 million. Houston is ...
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  • :For Science Museum of London, see Science museum (London) ... tended to concentrate on static displays of objects related to natural ...
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  • ) is a Japanese trading company and one of the largest sogo shosha ... directly from manufacturers instead of through foreign trading houses ...
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  • reptiles that belong to the genus Alligator of the family Alligatoridae and ... mississippiensis in the southern United States and the small Alligator ...
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  • from Maryland, who fatally shot President of the United States Abraham Lincoln ... Booth was a successful professional stage actor of his day and a member ...
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  • Carlos Castaneda (December 25, 1925 – April 27, 1998) was the author ... Castaneda's descriptions of psychedelic experiences stood apart ...
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  • 16, 1912 – June 22, 1993) was the wife of former President Richard Nixon ... Nixon was always supportive of her husband even during the troubled ...
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  • Iowa is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States of America ... A north central state, it forms a bridge between the forests of the ...
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  • different Republican presidents and is one of only two people to have held ... In 1970, he became the first director of the Office of Management ...
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  • Alternative energy is a term for any nontraditional energy form, source ... * United States Department of Energy (USDOE). [http://www1.eere.energy ...
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  • known as soda, pop, or soda pop, in parts of the United States, Canada, ... syrup, the drinks supply an over-abundance of calories. Moreover, the drinks ...
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  • Capitol Reef National Park is a United States National Park located ... The park, which lies along the northwestern edge of the Colorado Plateau ...
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  • sixth in population among cities in the United States. In 2007, the population ... metropolitan area was the fifth-largest in the United States. A commercial ...
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  • known colloquially as "the father of the hydrogen bomb," even ... Teller emigrated to the United States in the 1930s, and was an early ...
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  • and a former four-star general in the United States Army. He was the sixty ... in telling the world that the invasion of Iraq was justified and legal ...
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  • fuel obtained by the fractional distillation of petroleum, often called petrodiesel ... Diesel engines are a type of internal combustion engine. Rudolf Diesel ...
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  • Soil is the mixture of minerals, organic matter, liquids, and gases ... While the general concept of soil is well established, the definition ...
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  • fruit and vine-like plant (Citrullus lanatus of the family Cucurbitaceae) of ... This flowering plant produces a special type of fruit known by botanists ...
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  • Pneumatic tires are used on all types of vehicles, from cars to earthmovers ... 1889 – John Boyd Dunlop patented the pneumatic tire in the United Kingdom ...
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  • Nevada is a state located in the western region of the United States ... largest state. Slightly more than 86 percent of its land is owned by the United ...
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  • a living human being. The exact parameters of what constitutes human subject ... such as effectiveness and side-effects of vaccines and treatments for ...
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  • 19, 1881) was the twentieth President of the United States. He was a ... Garfield is the only person in United States history to be a Representative ...
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  • 28, 1968) was a German chemist and a pioneer of radioactivity and radiochemistry ... 1879, in Frankfurt am Main, the youngest son of the glazier and entrepreneur ...
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  • Prize for non-fiction in 1974, for his The Denial of Death. The thesis of his work was that individuals live in terror of their ...
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  • in the blood. They are the most common type of blood cell and the vertebrate ... have no DNA. In comparison, the erythrocytes of nearly all other vertebrates ...
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  • computing, his role in the development of the atomic bomb and other weapons ... Through his public career, Bush was a proponent of technological innovation ...
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