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  • Magnesium (chemical symbol Mg, atomic number 12) is the eighth most ... In its ionic form, magnesium is one of the most essential elements ...
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  • He often drew upon his own life experiences and addressed the nature ... The novel The Man in the High Castle bridged the genres of alternate ...
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  • Galaxy groups and clusters are the largest gravitationally bound objects ... For example, the Virgo Cluster, located in the constellation Virgo ...
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  • 9, 1850) was an American military leader and the twelfth president of the United ... Virginia on November 24, 1784. He was the third of nine children of ...
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  • and permanent component of ribosomes, the small, cellular particles ... The formation of proteins by rRNA, mRNA, and tRNA is remarkably complex ...
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  • any one of a group of plants classified in the Division Pteridophyta, formerly ... Ferns are among the oldest land plants, dating back to the Carboniferous ...
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  • social worker and reformer. She was one of the "ladies of Halsted Street ... 12, 1859 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the daughter of U.S. congressman ...
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  • In zoology, cricket is the common name for any of the grasshopper ... Crickets provide values for the ecosystem and for humans. Ecologically ...
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  • It is found in the minerals gadolinite, monazite, and xenotime. The ... monazite sand (~0.03 percent ytterbium). The element is also found in euxenite ...
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  • a bright silvery metal that is a member of the lanthanide series of chemical ... techniques, and electrochemical deposition. The metal is often prepared by ...
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  • as stainless steel, and in chrome plating. The human body needs trace amounts ... colored and used in paints and pigments. The red color of rubies derives ...
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  • between that of large gas giant planets and the lowest mass stars. Unlike ... heavier than about 65 M_J also fuse lithium. The only planet known to orbit ...
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  • The Bhimbetka rock shelters compose an archaeological site and World ... The Bhimbetka shelters exhibit the earliest traces of human life in ...
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  • benthos, and plankton), they rank among the top five most abundant groups ... . For most humans, other than adding to the wonder of nature, gastrotricha ...
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  • It is associated with several other rare earth elements in the mineral ... exchange production techniques developed in the late twentieth century have ...
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  • In the discussions of ethics, courage is considered to be a moral ... Existentialists in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries approached ...
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  • Uranus is the seventh planet from the Sun. It is the third largest ... (astronomical). The first symbol derives from the name of its discoverer ...
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  • Dambulla Cave Temple (also known as the Golden Temple of Dambulla ... north of Kandy. The largest and best-preserved cave temple complex ...
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  • The Crab Nebula (catalog designations M1, NGC 1952, Taurus A) is a ... This nebula was the first astronomical object identified with a historical ...
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  • Helium (chemical symbol He, atomic number 2) is a minor component ... In the present-day universe, almost all new helium is created as a ...
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