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Encyclopedia - Zacatecas: Encyclopedia - Zacatecas
Zacatecas is one of the 31 constituent states of Mexico. It is bounded to the north by Durango and Coahuila, to the east by San Luis Poto...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Poison: Encyclopedia - Poison
In the context of biology, poisons are substances that cause injury, illness, or death to organisms, usually by chemical reaction or othe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1 E19 S And More: Encyclopedia - 1 E19 S And More
To help compare orders of magnitude of different times, this page lists times longer than 1019 seconds (320,000 million years) See also t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Wedding Ring: Encyclopedia - Wedding Ring
A wedding ring or wedding band consists of a precious metal ring, usually worn on the base of the left ring finger – the fourth finger ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Water Molecule: Encyclopedia - Water Molecule
Water has the chemical formula H2O, meaning that one molecule of water is composed of two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom. It is in dy...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Shotgun Shell: Encyclopedia - Shotgun Shell
A shotgun shell is a self-contained cartridge loaded with shot or a slug designed to be fired from a shotgun. Most shotgun shells are des...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cobalt: Encyclopedia - Cobalt
Cobalt is a chemical element in the periodic table that has the symbol Co and atomic number 27. Cobalt - Notable characteristics. Cobalt...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chenzhou: Encyclopedia - Chenzhou
Chenzhou(郴州), a city located in the southern area of Hunan province, in China. Major deposits of tungsten, bismuth and molybdenum ma...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gold: Encyclopedia - Gold
Gold is a chemical element in the periodic table that has the symbol Au (L. aurum) and atomic number 79. A soft, shiny, yellow, dense, ma...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 200 Number: Encyclopedia - 200 Number
200 is the natural number following 199 and preceding 201. << 0 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800 900 >> The number appears in ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Clostridium Difficile: Encyclopedia - Clostridium Difficile
Clostridium difficile (pronunciation ▶ (help·info)) (also referred to as C. diff or C-diff) is a species of bacteria of the genus Clos...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Pewter: Encyclopedia - Pewter
Pewter is a metal alloy, traditionally between 85 and 99 percent tin, with the remainder consisting of 1-4 percent copper, acting as a ha...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Polonium: Encyclopedia Ii - Polonium - Applications
When it is mixed or alloyed with beryllium, polonium can be a neutron source. Other uses; This element has also been used in devices tha...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Charles Darwin's Illness: Encyclopedia Ii - Charles Darwin's Illness - Possible Causes
Medical science has tried repeatedly to pinpoint the etiology, and many hypotheses were made, such as: Psychosomatic disease [1] Panic d...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Point-to-point Construction: Encyclopedia Ii - Point-to-point Construction - Terminal Strip Construction
Point-to-point construction uses terminal strips(sometimes know as 'tag boards'). A terminal strip is a stamped strip of tin-plated loops...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Generation Iv Reactor: Encyclopedia Ii - Generation Iv Reactor - Reactor Types
Many reactor types were considered initially, however the list was downsized to focus on the most promising technolgies and those that co...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hydride: Encyclopedia Ii - Hydride - Ionic Hydrides
In ionic hydrides the hydrogen behaves as a halogen and obtains an electron from the metal to form a hydride ion (H-), thereby obtaining ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hydride: Encyclopedia Ii - Hydride - Ionic Hydrides
In ionic hydrides the hydrogen behaves as a halogen and obtains an electron from the metal to form a hydride ion (H-), thereby obtaining ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Height 611 Ufo Incident: Encyclopedia Ii - Height 611 Ufo Incident - Incident Description
A reddish ball was noticed by the inhabitants of the town at around 8 PM on that date. Eye-witnesses say that the ball was about the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Magnetic Levitation: Encyclopedia Ii - Magnetic Levitation - Methods
Magnetic levitation - Diamagnetism. A substance which is diamagnetic repels a magnetic field. Earnshaw's theorem does not apply to diam...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - New Brunswick: Encyclopedia Ii - New Brunswick - History
The aboriginal nations of New Brunswick include the Mi'kmaq (Micmac), Maliseet and Passamaquoddy. The Mi'kmaq territories were mostly in ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Fries Rearrangement: Encyclopedia Ii - Fries Rearrangement - Mechanism
Despite many efforts a definitive reaction mechanism for the Fries rearrangement is not available. Evidence for inter- and intramolecular...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Nuclear Power: Encyclopedia Ii - Nuclear Power - Reactor Types
Nuclear power - Current Technology. There are two types of nuclear power sources in current use: The nuclear fission reactor produces ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Geography Of Kyrgyzstan: Encyclopedia Ii - Geography Of Kyrgyzstan - Environmental Problems
Kyrgyzstan has been spared many of the enormous environmental problems faced by its Central Asian neighbors, primarily because its design...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Phosphor: Encyclopedia Ii - Phosphor - Materials
Phosphors are usually made from a suitable host material, to which an activator is added. The best known type is a copper-activated zinc ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 83 Number: Encyclopedia Ii - 83 Number - In Mathematics
Eighty-three is the sum of three consecutive primes (23 + 29 + 31) as well as the sum of five consecutive primes (11 + 13 + 17 + 19 + 23)...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Selenium: Encyclopedia Ii - Selenium - Applications
Selenium is an essential micronutrient in all known forms of life; it is a component of the unusual amino acid selenocysteine. Because of...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Subcritical Reactor: Encyclopedia Ii - Subcritical Reactor - Technical Challenges
There are technical difficulties to overcome before ADS can become economical and eventually be integrated into a future nuclear waste ma...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Radium: Encyclopedia Ii - Radium - Notable Characteristics
The heaviest of the alkaline earth metals, radium is intensely radioactive and resembles Barium chemically. This metal is found (combined...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Radiography: Encyclopedia Ii - Radiography - Uses
The most common use of radiography is in the medical field (where it is known as medical imaging), but veterinarians and engineers also u...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Quern-stone: Encyclopedia Ii - Quern-stone - Uses Of Quern-stones
Quern-stones have been used throughout the world to grind materials, the most important of which was usually grain to make flour for brea...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Salicylic Acid: Encyclopedia Ii - Salicylic Acid - Salicylic Acid As A Plant Hormone
Here is a list of some of salicylic acid's properties when acting as a plant hormone. It is interesting to note, in light of these proper...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Elements Song: Encyclopedia Ii - The Elements Song - Lyrics
There's antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium, And hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium, And nickel, neodymium, neptunium, german...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tin: Encyclopedia Ii - Tin - Applications
Tin bonds readily to iron, and has been used for coating lead or zinc and steel to prevent corrosion. Tin-plated steel containers are wid...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - New Brunswick: Encyclopedia Ii - New Brunswick - History
The aboriginal nations of New Brunswick include the Mi'kmaq (Micmac), Maliseet and Passamaquoddy. The Mi'kmaq territories are mostly in t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Astatine: Encyclopedia Ii - Astatine - Notable Characteristics
This highly radioactive element has been confirmed by mass spectrometers to behave chemically much like other halogens, especially iodine...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Roentgenium: Encyclopedia Ii - Roentgenium - History
It was first created at the Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung (GSI) in Darmstadt, Germany on December 8, 1994. Only three atoms of i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Radon: Encyclopedia Ii - Radon - Precautions
Radon is a carcinogenic gas. Radon is a radioactive material and must be handled with care at all times. It is hazardous to inhale this e...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tuskegee Syphilis Study: Encyclopedia Ii - Tuskegee Syphilis Study - Study Clinicians
The study group was formed as part of the venereal disease section of the U.S. Public Health Service (PHS). The start of the Tuskegee Syp...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Water Molecule: Encyclopedia Ii - Water Molecule - Physics And Chemistry Of Water
Water molecule - Density of water and ice. For most substances, the solid form of the substance is more dense than the liquid form; thu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Wedding Ring: Encyclopedia Ii - Wedding Ring - Traditional Customs
Wedding ring - Pre-wedding customs. According to some customs, the wedding ring forms the last in a series of gifts, which also may inc...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Meitnerium: Encyclopedia Ii - Meitnerium - History
Meitnerium was first synthesized on August 29, 1982 by a German research team led by Peter Armbruster and Gottfried Münzenberg at the In...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Diamond Enhancement: Encyclopedia Ii - Diamond Enhancement - Color Enhancements
The color of a diamond can be artificially altered by three distinct methods: irradiation with high-energy subatomic particles; the appli...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Poison: Encyclopedia Ii - Poison - Types Of Poisons
The majority of this section is sorted by ICD-10 code, which classifies poisons based upon the nature of the poison itself. However, it i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Shotgun Shell: Encyclopedia Ii - Shotgun Shell - Construction Of A Typical Shotshell
Modern shotshells typically consist of a plastic case, with the base covered in a thin brass covering. Paper shells used to be common, an...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Clostridium Difficile: Encyclopedia Ii - Clostridium Difficile - Bacteriology
Clostridium difficile - Characteristics. Clostridia are motile bacteria that are ubiquitous in nature and are especially prevalent in s...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Nuclear Reprocessing: Encyclopedia Ii - Nuclear Reprocessing - Possible Methods For Future Use
Nuclear reprocessing - Aqueous methods. The PUREX process can be modified to make a UREX (URanium EXtraction) process which could be u...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gold: Encyclopedia Ii - Gold - Notable Characteristics
Gold is a metallic element with a characteristic yellow color, but can also be black or ruby when finely divided, while colloidal solutio...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Nuclear Power: Encyclopedia Ii - Nuclear Power - Risks
Opponents of nuclear power, such as Greenpeace, argue against its use due to issues like the long term problems of storing radioactive wa...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cobalt: Encyclopedia Ii - Cobalt - Applications
Co-60 is useful as a gamma ray source partially because it can be produced - in known quantity, and very large amounts - by simply exposi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ranitidine: Encyclopedia Ii - Ranitidine - Clinical Use
Main article: H2-receptor antagonist Certain preparations of ranitidine are available over the counter (OTC) in various countries. In the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - E-waste: Encyclopedia Ii - E-waste - Definition Of E-waste
E-waste includes computers, entertainment electronics, mobile phones and other items that have been discarded by their original users. Wh...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Uranium Dioxide: Encyclopedia Ii - Uranium Dioxide - Uses
Enriched UO2 is used mainly as nuclear fuel, specifically in the fuel rods. Depleted UO2 (DUO2) can be used as a material for radiation s...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tin Pest: Encyclopedia Ii - Tin Pest - Supposed Historical Examples
Tin pest - Scott expedition to Antarctica. In 1910 British polar explorer Robert Scott hoped to be the first to reach the South Pole, b...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Trail British Columbia: Encyclopedia Ii - Trail British Columbia - Smelter And Children Lead Monitoring
Teck Cominco, starting operations in Trail in 1902, operates a smelter, producing zinc, lead, copper, gold, silver, cadmium, bismuth and ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Extractive Metallurgy: Encyclopedia Ii - Extractive Metallurgy - Mineral Processing
Mineral processing involves the use of physical processes to manipulate ore particle size, and concentrate valuable minerals using the pr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Poison: Encyclopedia Ii - Poison - Biological Poisoning
Contact or absorption of poisons can cause rapid death or impairment. Agents that act on the nervous system can paralyze in seconds or le...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cobalt: Encyclopedia Ii - Cobalt - Notable Characteristics
Cobalt is a hard ferromagnetic silver-white element. The Curie temperature is of 1388 K with 1.6~1.7 Bohr magnetons per atom. It is frequ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cobalt: Encyclopedia Ii - Cobalt - Precautions
Powdered cobalt in metal form is a fire hazard. Cobalt compounds should be handled with care due to cobalt's slight toxicity. Cobalt-60 i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cobalt: Encyclopedia Ii - Cobalt - Isotopes
Naturally occurring cobalt is composed of 1 stable isotope, 59-Co (59Co). 22 radioisotopes have been characterized with the most stable b...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Nuclear Reprocessing: Encyclopedia Ii - Nuclear Reprocessing - Current Methods Which Are In Use
Nuclear reprocessing - PUREX. PUREX is an acronym standing for Plutonium and Uranium Recovery by EXtraction. The PUREX process is a liq...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Quern-stone: Encyclopedia Ii - Quern-stone - Types Of Quern-stones
There are a variety of types of quern-stone, with the two most common being the saddle quern and the rotary quern. The saddle quern is pr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Shotgun Shell: Encyclopedia Ii - Shotgun Shell - Shot Sizes
Shotshells (shotgun shells loaded with shot) are loaded with different sizes of shot depending on the target. For skeet shooting, a small...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Nuclear Reprocessing: Encyclopedia Ii - Nuclear Reprocessing - Current Methods Which Are In Use
Nuclear reprocessing - PUREX. This process can be used to recover weapon-grade materials from spent nuclear reactor fuel, and as such,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Nuclear Reprocessing: Encyclopedia Ii - Nuclear Reprocessing - Old Methods Which Are No Longer Used
Nuclear reprocessing - Bismuth phosphate. The bismuth phosphate process is a very old process which adds lots of material to the final ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Poison: Encyclopedia Ii - Poison - Biological Poisoning
Contact or absorption of poisons can cause rapid death or impairment. Agents that act on the nervous system can paralyze in seconds or le...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Radon: Encyclopedia Ii - Radon - Applications
In the United States and Europe there are a few "radon spas," where people sit for minutes or hours in a high-radon atmosphere in the bel...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Radon: Encyclopedia Ii - Radon - Notable Characteristics
Essentially chemically inert, but radioactive, radon is the heaviest noble gas and one of the heaviest gases at room temperature. (The he...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Radium: Encyclopedia Ii - Radium - History
Radium (Latin radius, ray) was discovered by Marie Curie and her husband Pierre in 1898 in pitchblende/uraninite from North Bohemia. Whil...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Radium: Encyclopedia Ii - Radium - Radioactivity
Radium is over one million times more radioactive than the same mass of uranium. Its decay occurs in at least seven stages; the successiv...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Radon: Encyclopedia Ii - Radon - History
Radon (named for radium) was discovered in 1900 by Friedrich Ernst Dorn, who called it radium emanation. In 1908 William Ramsay and Rober...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Nuclear Reprocessing: Encyclopedia Ii - Nuclear Reprocessing - Spent Nuclear Fuel
Spent low enriched uranium fuel contains: 3% of the mass consists of fission products of 235U (also indirect products in the decay chain...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tin Pest: Encyclopedia Ii - Tin Pest - The Allotropic Transformation
At 13.2 degrees Celsius (about 56 degrees Fahrenheit) and below, pure tin transforms from the (silvery, ductile) allotrope of β-modifica...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Poison: Encyclopedia Ii - Poison - Poisoning In Children
Poison - Background. Poisoning is the fourth most common cause of accidents in children. Children less than 5 years of age and adolesce...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Radon: Encyclopedia Ii - Radon - Occurrence
On average, there is one atom of radon in 1 x 1021 molecules of air. Radon can be found in some spring waters and hot springs. The towns ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Radon: Encyclopedia Ii - Radon - Isotopes
There are twenty known isotopes of radon. The most stable isotope is radon-222, which is a decay product (daughter product) of radium-226...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Nuclear Reprocessing: Encyclopedia Ii - Nuclear Reprocessing - History
The first large-scale nuclear reactors were built during World War II. These reactors were designed for the production of plutonium for u...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - New Brunswick: Encyclopedia Ii - New Brunswick - People
The Acadians are survivors of the Great Expulsion (1755) which drove several thousand French residents into exile in North America, the U...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gold: Encyclopedia Ii - Gold - Production
Economic gold extraction can be achieved from ore grades as little as 0.5 g/1000 kg (0.5 ppm) on average in large easily mined deposits, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gold: Encyclopedia Ii - Gold - Occurrence
Due to its relative chemical inertness gold is usually found as the native metal or alloy. Occasionally large accumulations of native gol...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gold: Encyclopedia Ii - Gold - Gold And The Money Supply
In January 1959 US M3 money supply was $288.8 billion, and the official gold holdings of the United States was then 17,335.1 tonnes, or a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gold: Encyclopedia Ii - Gold - History
Gold ( Sanskrit jval, Greek χρυσóς [khrisós], Latin aurum for "shining dawn", Anglo-Saxon gold, Chinese 金 [jīn],Japanese 金 [k...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Quern-stone: Encyclopedia Ii - Quern-stone - Manufacture Of Quern-stones
The best type of stone to manufacture quern-stones from are igneous rocks such as basalt. These have naturally rough surfaces, but grains...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - New Brunswick: Encyclopedia Ii - New Brunswick - Education
New Brunswick has a complete network of English and French language public schools serving from kindergarten to high school. There are al...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hydride: Encyclopedia Ii - Hydride - Interstitial Hydrides Of The Transitional Metals
Their bonding nature vastly differs from element to element and changes according to external criteria such as temperature, pressure and ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - New Brunswick: Encyclopedia Ii - New Brunswick - Cities
New Brunswick has eight officially incorporated cities, listed here in descending order by population: Saint John Moncton Fredericton Mi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hydride: Encyclopedia Ii - Hydride - Covalent Hydrides
As the name suggests, the hydrogen is covalently bonded to more electropositive p-block (boron, aluminium and Group 4-7) elements and ber...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - New Brunswick: Encyclopedia Ii - New Brunswick - Politics
New Brunswick has a unicameral legislature consisting of 55 seats. The governing party normally is the party that wins the most seats in ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gold: Encyclopedia Ii - Gold - Symbolism
Gold has been associated with the extremities of utmost evil and great sanctity throughout history. The Golden Calf is a widely-recognise...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Geography Of Kyrgyzstan: Encyclopedia Ii - Geography Of Kyrgyzstan - Resources And Land Use
Natural resources: abundant hydropower; significant deposits of gold and rare earth metals; locally exploitable coal, petroleum, and natu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Geography Of Kyrgyzstan: Encyclopedia Ii - Geography Of Kyrgyzstan - Area And Boundaries
Area: total: 198,500 km² land: 191,300 km² water: 7,200 km² Area - comparative: slightly smaller than South Dakota Land boundaries: to...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Nuclear Power: Encyclopedia Ii - Nuclear Power - Reactor Types
Nuclear power - Current Technology. There are two types of nuclear power sources in current use: The nuclear fission reactor produces ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Nuclear Power: Encyclopedia Ii - Nuclear Power - Current And Planned Use
In 2005, there were 441 commercial nuclear generating units throughout the world, with a total capacity of about 368 gigawatts.[5] 111 re...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Nuclear Power: Encyclopedia Ii - Nuclear Power - Life Cycle
Main article: Nuclear fuel cycle A Nuclear Reactor is only a small part of the life-cycle for nuclear power. The process starts with m...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Charles Darwin's Illness: Encyclopedia Ii - Charles Darwin's Illness - Development Of Illness And Symptoms
Darwin was too sensitive to the sight of blood and the brutality of surgery at the time as a student of medicine at Edinburgh University,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Nuclear Power: Encyclopedia Ii - Nuclear Power - Economy
Opponents of nuclear power claim that any of the environmental benefits are outweighed by safety compromises and by the costs related to ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Nuclear Power: Encyclopedia Ii - Nuclear Power - History
Nuclear power - Origins. The first successful experiment with nuclear fission was conducted in 1938 in Berlin by the German physicists ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Charles Darwin's Illness: Encyclopedia Ii - Charles Darwin's Illness - Contribution To Darwin's Work
Interestingly enough, it seems that Darwin's maladies actually may have contributed a lot to what many believe was a long and fruitful cr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Geography Of Kyrgyzstan: Encyclopedia Ii - Geography Of Kyrgyzstan - Topography And Drainage
The mountains of Kyrgyzstan are geologically young, so that the physical terrain is marked by sharply uplifted peaks separated by deep va...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - New Brunswick: Encyclopedia Ii - New Brunswick - Media Outlets
New Brunswick has four daily newspapers. Three of these dailies are anglophone; the Daily Gleaner based in Fredericton, the Times & T...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - New Brunswick: Encyclopedia Ii - New Brunswick - Demographics
Racial Composition 96.4% White 2.3% Aboriginal 0.5% Black 0.8% all others Religious Profile 53.4% Roman Catholic 35.7% Protestant 1.4%...   » Read the article