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  • Rubidium (chemical symbol Rb, atomic number 37) is a soft, silvery ... and zinnwaldite, which contains traces of up to one percent of its oxide ...
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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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  • Strontium (chemical symbol Sr, atomic number 38) is a soft, silvery ... is widely used in the glass screens of color television sets. Strontium ...
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  • Chlorine (chemical symbol Cl, atomic number 17) is a nonmetal that ... in nature and necessary for most forms of life, including human life ...
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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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  • Cobalt (chemical symbol Co, atomic number 27) is a hard, lustrous ... Cobalt compounds are used in the production of inks, paints, and varnishes ...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • ) of Chalcedon (396 – 314 B.C.E.) was a Greek philosopher and third ... In his biography of Xenocrates, Diogenes Laertius recounts several ...
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  • Molybdenum (chemical symbol Mo, atomic number 42) is a silvery white ... free in nature. The main commercial source of molybdenum is the mineral molybdenite ...
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  • Tellurium (chemical symbol Te, atomic number 52) is a relatively rare ... with care. Exposure to even small amounts of tellurium can generate a garlicky ...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Xenon (chemical symbol Xe, atomic number 54) is a colorless, odorless ... This element can be extracted by fractional distillation of liquid ...
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  • Zirconium (chemical symbol Zr, atomic number 40) is a strong, lustrous ... The purified metal is primarily used by the nuclear industry to form ...
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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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  • 4 (four) is a number, numeral, and glyph that represents the number ... that follows 3 and precedes 5. It is an integer and a cardinal number ...
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