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  • to float on and provide transport over water. It is usually operated on ... and ferryboat. These are examples of large boats, but they generally ...
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  • Chalcedony is one of the cryptocrystalline—a term which refers to ... The term chalcedony is derived from the name of the ancient Greek ...
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  • traditional group (superorder or subclass) of amphibians that constituted ... toothed," describes the pattern of infolding of the dentine and ...
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  • Trawling is a method of fishing that involves pulling a large fishing ... There are two types of trawling: bottom trawling and midwater trawling ...
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  • Vitrification is a process of converting a material into a glass-like ... create hollow, branching rootlike structures of glass, called fulgurite. When ...
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  • 35) is a nonmetal that belongs to a group of chemical elements known as ... Bromine is an important resource for the production of a wide range ...
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  • Phenol, also known under an older name of carbolic acid, is a toxic ... group (-OH). In effect, phenols are a class of organic compounds of which ...
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  • The solubility of a chemical substance is a physical property referring ... Solubility is measured in terms of the maximum amount of solute that ...
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  • from the Greek for spiny skin) are a phylum of marine invertebrates that are ... terrestrial representatives. Representatives of the phylum can be found at ...
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  • metal container traditionally used to boil water in Russia. In its traditional ... Iran, but they are considered icons of Russian tea culture. Providing ...
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  • which are balls or irregular lumps of ice typically measuring between ... == Formation of hail == [[Image:Granizo.jpg|thumb|left|A large hailstone ...
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  • Typically, a fire extinguisher consists of a hand-held cylindrical pressure ... Fire extinguishers have been a major part of fire prevention. The ...
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  • Tidal power, sometimes called tidal energy, is a form of hydropower ... * Tidal stream systems make use of the kinetic energy from the moving ...
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  • Water is a common chemical substance that is essential for all known ... In typical usage, the term water refers to its liquid state, but the ...
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  • Fractional distillation is a special type of distillation designed ... The separation technology of fractional distillation is useful in ...
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  • Land pollution is the degradation of earth's land surfaces often ... The Industrial Revolution set in motion a series of events which impinged ...
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  • Odonata is an order of insects (class Insecta) encompassing dragonflies ... valuable in that they consume large numbers of insect pests, including mosquitoes ...
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  • *Water (Chinese: 水, pinyin: shuǐ) *Fire (Chinese:火, pinyin: huǒ), ... The system of five phases was used for describing interactions and ...
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  • but it is frequently tinted by the presence of impurities. Possible colors ... meters in width. This mineral has a hardness of 7.5-8, and its specific gravity ...
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  • in this article) replaces the hydrogen atom of a hydroxyl group in an oxoacid ... Esters are named similarly to salts; although they are not composed ...
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