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  • Barium (chemical symbol Ba, atomic number 56) is a soft, silvery chemical element classified as an alkaline earth metal. Given its reactivity ...
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  • Rocket propellant is the material used by a rocket engine to generate thrust. The most common propellants consist of a fuel and an oxidizer that ...
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  • In genetics, an allele (pronounced al-eel or al-e-ul) is any one of a number of viable DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) codings occupying a given ...
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  • Deoxyribose, also known as D-Deoxyribose and 2-deoxyribose, is a pentose sugar (monosaccharide containing five carbon atoms) that is a key component ...
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  • Category:Image wanted {{Infobox_Politician | name = Richard Joseph Daley | image = Daley_closeup.jpg | birth_date = 1902|5|15|mf=y ...
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  • Lawrencium (chemical symbol Lr, atomic number 103), once known as eka-lutetium, is a radioactive synthetic element in the periodic table. Its ...
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  • An airport is a facility where aircraft, such as airplanes and helicopters, can take off and land. A military airport is known as an airbase ...
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  • Medicine wheels, or sacred hoops, are stone structures built by certain Indigenous peoples of the Americas apparently for astronomical, ritual ...
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  • Samoa, is part of an archipelago in the South Pacific Ocean formerly known as the Navigators' Islands -- a reference to Samoan seafaring ...
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  • Jeroboam ("increase of the people"), the son of Nebat, (1 Kings 11:26-39), was the first king of the break-away ten tribes or Kingdom ...
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  • Urea is an organic compound of carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, and hydrogen. Its chemical formula may be written as CO(NH2)2, CON2H4, or CN2H4O. It ...
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  • Jiandao (間島), known in Korean as Gando, refers to northeastern parts of the People's Republic of China populated mostly by Koreans. ...
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  • Brass is the term used for alloys of copper and zinc. It has a yellow color, somewhat similar to gold. The proportions of zinc and copper can ...
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  • Thomas Tallis (c.1505 – November 23, 1585) was an extremely talented English composer. Tallis flourished as a church musician during the often ...
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  • Absurdism is a philosophical perspective which holds that the efforts of humanity to find meaning or rational explanation in the universe ultimately ...
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  • In geology, evaporites are water-soluble, mineral sediments that result from the evaporation of restricted bodies of water on the Earth's ...
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  • Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, also known as pseudo-Denys, is the name scholars have given to an anonymous theologian and philosopher of the ...
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  • Fisher is the common name for a largely arboreal, North American carnivorous mammal, Martes pennanti, of the marten genus (Martes) and weasel ...
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  • Palm Sunday is a Christian feast day which falls on the Sunday before Easter. It commemorates the triumphal entry of Jesus into Jerusalem in ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Archaeological sites [[Image:Sutton.hoo.helmet.JPG|thumb|right|225px|Sutton ...
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