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  • The major heat-producing isotopes in Earth are potassium-40, uranium-238, uranium-235, and thorium-232. Robert Sanders, [http://www.berkeley.edu/news/m ...
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  • The Gulf War (August 28, 1990 – February 28, 1991) was a conflict between Iraq and a coalition force of approximately 30 nations ...
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  • Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria (Georgian: ლავრენტი ბერია; Russian: Лаврентий Павлович Берия; March ...
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  • Sedimentology encompasses the study of modern sediments such as sand, Raymond Siever, Sand (New York: Scientific American Library, 1988, ISBN ...
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  • A bullet is a solid projectile propelled by a firearm or air gun, normally made from metal—usually lead. A bullet (in contrast to a shell) ...
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  • Saskatchewan is a prairie province in Canada, with an area of 227,134.67 square miles (588,276.09 sq. km) and a population of around 1 million ...
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  • In the most general terms, convection refers to the movement of molecules within fluids (that is, liquids, gases, and rheids). It is one of the ...
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  • The State of Wyoming is a state in the western region of the United States of America. The majority of the state is dominated by the mountain ...
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  • John Malcolm Fraser, AC, CH, PC (May 21, 1930 - March 20, 2015) was an Australian politician who was the 22nd Prime Minister of Australia. He ...
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  • The Namib Desert is a coastal desert in Namibia and southwestern Angola that encompasses the world's highest sand dunes, gravel plains, ...
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  • Coal is a black or brownish-black sedimentary rock composed primarily of carbon, along with other assorted substances, including sulfur. It is ...
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  • Yttrium (chemical symbol Y, atomic number 39) is a lustrous, silvery metal that is found in most rare-earth minerals. It is relatively stable ...
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  • Fertilizers (also spelled fertilisers) are compounds given to plants to promote growth; they are usually applied either via the soil, for uptake ...
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  • Neodymium Neodymium is frequently misspelled as neodynium. (chemical symbol Nd, atomic number 60) is a silvery metallic element that is a member ...
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  • Estonia (older English spelling Esthonia), officially the Republic of Estonia (Estonian: Eesti or Eesti Vabariik), is a country in Northern Europe ...
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  • Regolith is a layer of loose, heterogeneous material covering solid rock. It includes dust, soil, broken rock, and other related materials. It ...
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  • Apatite is the name given to a group of phosphate minerals, usually referring to hydroxylapatite (or hydroxyapatite), fluoroapatite (or fluorapatite ...
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  • Fossil fuels or mineral fuels are hydrocarbon fuels found within the top layer of the Earth’s crust. They range from highly volatile materials ...
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  • beneath caldera volcanoes from uranium-238-thorium-230 disequilibrium dating of zircon and allanite.” 2004. ==External links== All links retrieved ...
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  • Electronegativity is one of the fundamental concepts for an understanding of chemical bonding. The first modern definition was suggested by Linus ...
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