Carbon dioxide is an atmospheric gas comprised of one carbon and two oxygen atoms. A very widely known chemical compound, it is frequently called by its formula CO2. In its solid state, it is commonly known as dry ice. Carbon dioxide derives from multiple sources including volcanic outgassing, the combustion of organic matter and respiration processes of living aerobic organisms. It is also produced by various microorganisms from fermentation and cellular respiration. Plants utilize carbon dioxide durin ...

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• Carbon dioxide - Chemical and physical properties
• Carbon dioxide - Uses
• Carbon dioxide - Dry Ice
• Carbon dioxide - Uses
• Carbon dioxide - Handling
• Carbon dioxide - Biology
• Carbon dioxide - Atmosphere
• Carbon dioxide - Variation in the past
• Carbon dioxide - Oceans
• Carbon dioxide - History

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A brand may achieve dominant mind share when it is associated with a whole category of products, but has not necessarily become a generic term for these products. For example, Kleenex may sometimes be used to describe any facial tissue product, but retains it status as a proprietary trademark. Other examples include Hoover, which has long been synonymous with vacuum cleaners; Dyson, which subsequently achieved similar status with a more sophisticated model of vacuum cleaner; and the internet search engine provided by Google, from which the term "googling" was d ...

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Mind share, Mind share - Dominant mind share, Mind share - Alternative usage

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According to stereotype, spoken Australian English is thought to be highly colloquial, possibly more so than other spoken variants. Whether this idea is grounded in reality or not, a substantial number of publications aimed at giving an overview of Australian English have been published. Many books about Australian vocabulary have been published, beginning with Karl Lentzner's Dictionary of the Slang-English of Australia and of Some Mixed Languages in 1892. Several similar books soon followed, including a relatively modest but authoritative work by E. E. Morris: Austral English: A Dictionar ...

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• Australian words - Australian vocabulary
• Australian words - A to D
• Australian words - E to K
• Australian words - L to P
• Australian words - Q to Z
• Australian words - Old declining or expired slang
• Australian words - Rhyming slang
• Australian words - Cricket slang
• Australian words - Australian rules slang
• Australian words - Australian Defence Force slang
• Australian words - Terms for people
• Australian words - Nick names by state or territory
• Australian words - Terms or nicknames for ethnicities
• Australian words - Clothes
• Australian words - Swimwear
• Australian words - Food and drink
• Australian words - Processed pork
• Australian words - Beer glasses
• Australian words - Transport
• Australian words - Cars
• Australian words - Work/goods vehicles
• Australian words - Police vehicles

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BAND-AID is the registered trademark of Johnson & Johnson for their adhesive bandages used to cover small wounds. However, much of the consuming public in the United States, Canada and Australia uses the term band-aid generically, to refer to any such adhesive bandages (see genericized trademark). Such bandages are better known in many parts of the world as an 'adhesive plaster' or a 'sticking plaster'. BAND-AID - History. A Johnson & Johnson employee named Earle Dickson is credited w ...

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• BAND-AID - History
• BAND-AID - External link

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An airship is a buoyant aircraft that can be steered and propelled through the air. Unlike aerodynamic craft (e.g. airplanes and helicopters) which stay aloft by moving an airfoil through the air in order to produce lift, aerostatic craft such as airships (and balloons) stay aloft primarily by means of a cavity (usually quite large) filled with a gas of lesser density than the surrounding atmosphere. Airships are also known as dirigibles from the French dirigeable, meaning "steerable". The term airship is s ...

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• Airship - Types
• Airship - History
• Airship - Airship Pioneers
• Airship - Airships in the First World War
• Airship - Airships in the Inter-war period
• Airship - Airships in the Second World War
• Airship - Continued use
• Airship - Present-day research
• Airship - Noteworthy historic prototypes and experiments
• Airship - Fiction

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A vacuum flask or Thermos flask is a bottle that reduces heat transfer from the inside to the outside and conversely to a minimum, and therefore keeps warm drinks warm and refrigerated drinks cold. It was invented by Sir James Dewar, a scientist at Oxford University in 1892. Historically vacuum flasks have been made of glass although they are now also made in metal which makes them more durable and less prone to breakage. They comprise an outer container separated from an inner container by a partial vacuum; the vacuum ensures the reduction of heat transfer via convection or conduction. The interior is ofte ...

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Unix or UNIX is a computer operating system originally developed in the 1960s and 1970s by a group of AT&T Bell Labs employees including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, and Douglas McIlroy. Today's Unix systems are split into various branches, developed over time by AT&T, several other commercial vendors, as well as several non-profit organizations. Unix was designed to be portable, multi-tasking and multi-user. The Unix systems are characterized by various concepts: plain text files, command line interpreter, hier ...

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• Unix - History
• Unix - 1960s and 1970s
• Unix - 1980s
• Unix - 1990s
• Unix - 2000s
• Unix - Standards
• Unix - List of Unixes
• Unix - Research Unix
• Unix - AT&T UNIX Systems & descendants
• Unix - Free Unix-like operating systems
• Unix - Impact
• Unix - Branding
• Unix - Canonical Unix Commands
• Unix - Sources

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C6H4(OCOCH3)COOH Aspirin or acetylsalicylic acid is a drug in the family of salicylates, often used as an analgesic (against minor pains and aches), antipyretic (against fever), and anti-inflammatory. It has also an anticoagulant (blood thinning) effect and is used in long-term low-doses to prevent heart attacks. Low-dose long-term aspirin irreversibly blocks formation of thromboxane A2 in platelets, producing an inhibitory effect on platelet aggregation, and this blood thi ...

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• Aspirin -  Name
• Aspirin - Discovery
• Aspirin - Synthesis of aspirin
• Aspirin - How it works
• Aspirin - Indications
• Aspirin - Contraindications and warnings
• Aspirin - Common side effects
• Aspirin - Overdose

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Generally speaking, advertising is the promotion of goods, services, companies and ideas, usually by an identified sponsor. Marketers see advertising as part of an overall promotional strategy. Other components of the promotional mix include publicity, public relations, personal selling and sales promotion. Advertising - History. In ancient times the most common form of advertising was 'word of mouth'. However, commercial messages and election campaign displays were found in the ruins of Pompeii. Egyptians ...

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• Advertising - History
• Advertising - Media
• Advertising - Objectives
• Advertising - Political uses
• Advertising - Impact
• Advertising - Techniques
• Advertising - Public service advertising
• Advertising - Social impact
• Advertising - Regulation
• Advertising - Critiques of the medium
• Advertising - Public perception of the medium
• Advertising - Future
• Advertising - Bibliography

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The term "Claymation" is a registered trademark created by Will Vinton Studios to describe their clay animated movies; the more generic term is "clay animation", but "claymation" has entered the English language as a genericized trademark. Clay animation is but one form of stop motion animation; specifically, it is the form where each animated piece, either character or background, is "deformable". All animation is produced in a similar fashion, whether done through traditional cel animation, stop-motion, or CGI. Each fr ...

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• Claymation - Intensity
• Claymation - Other films or television shows produced with clay animation

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A neologism is a word, term, or phrase which has been recently created ("coined") —often to apply to new concepts, or to reshape older terms in newer language form. Neologisms are especially useful in identifying inventions, new phenomena, or old ideas which have taken on a new cultural context. Neologisms are by definition "new," and as such are often directly attributable to a specific individual, publication, period or event. The term "neologism" was itself coined around 1800; so for some time in the early 19th Century, th ...

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• Neologism - Changing culture
• Neologism - Cultural acceptance
• Neologism - Versions of neologisms
• Neologism - Types of neologism
• Neologism - Neologisms in literature
• Neologism - Quotation
• Neologism - Miscellaneous

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Ouija (pronounced wee-juh or wee-jee) refers to the belief that one can receive messages during a séance by the use of a Ouija board (also called a talking board or spirit board) and planchette. The fingers of the participants are placed on the planchette which then moves about a board covered with numbers, letters and symbols so as to spell out messages. Ouija is a trademark for a talking board currently sold by Parker Brothers. While the word is not a genericized trademark, it has become a ...

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• Ouija - History
• Ouija - How is it done?
• Ouija - Skeptical view
• Ouija - Criticism of Ouija boards
• Ouija - Literature
• Ouija - Etymology
• Ouija - Non-occult usage
• Ouija - Books

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Webster's Dictionary is a common title given to English language dictionaries in the United States, deriving its name from American lexicographer Noah Webster. In America, the phrase Webster's has become a genericized trademark for dictionaries. Although Merriam-Webster dictionaries are descended from those of the original purchasers of Noah Webster's work, many other dictionaries bear his name, such as those by the publishers Random House and John Wiley & Sons. Webster's Dictionary - 19th- and e ...

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• Webster's Dictionary - Changes
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• Webster's Dictionary - Revisions and updates
• Webster's Dictionary - The Collegiate Dictionary
• Webster's Dictionary - The name Webster used by others
• Webster's Dictionary - Competition
• Webster's Dictionary - Online editions

Petroleum jelly or petrolatum is a byproduct of the refining of petroleum, made from the residue of petroleum distillation left in the still after all the oil has been vaporized. Vaseline is a well-known brand of petroleum jelly originally produced by Chesebrough Manufacturing which merged with Pond's Extract Company in 1955 to form Chesebrough-Pond's, Inc. Unilever purchased Chesebrough-Pond's in 1987. Vaseline has become an example of generic brand name (genericized trademark) meaning Petroleum Jelly. ...

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• Petroleum jelly - History
• Petroleum jelly - Appearance
• Petroleum jelly - Production process
• Petroleum jelly - Uses

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A speedo, which takes its name from the swimsuit brand Speedo, may refer to any briefs-style male swimsuit such as those used in competitive swimming, regardless of the actual manufacturer (see genericized trademark). The term is most common in American English but is also widely used in other English-speaking countries. Like the brief, speedos feature a "V-shape" front and solid back providing form-fitting coverage. They are typically worn below the lower waist. They are ...

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• Speedo suit style - Manufacturers
• Speedo suit style - Styles
• Speedo suit style - Racing Suits
• Speedo suit style - Drag Suits
• Speedo suit style - Triathlon Suits
• Speedo suit style - Square Leg Suits
• Speedo suit style - Men's Bikinis
• Speedo suit style - Fashion
• Speedo suit style - World
• Speedo suit style - North America

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There are two main types of glass fiber manufacture and two main types of glass fiber product. First, fiber is made either from a direct melt process or a marble remelt process. Both start with the raw materials in solid form. They are mixed together and melted in a furnace. Then, for the marble process, the molten material is sheared and rolled into marbles which are cooled and packaged. The marbles are then taken to the manufacturing facility where they are inserted into a can and remelted. Then the molten glass goes to the bushing to be formed into fiber. In the direct melt process, the molten glass in the furnace ...

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Fiberglass, Fiberglass - Formation, Fiberglass - Chemistry, Fiberglass - Properties, Fiberglass - Manufacturing Processes, Fiberglass - Bibliography

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Whereas marketing aims to identify markets that will purchase a Product or support an idea and then facilitate that purchase, advertising is the communication by which information about the product or idea is transmitted to potential consumers. In general, advertising is used to convey availability of a "product" (which can be a physical product, a service, or an idea) and to provide information regarding the product. This can stimulate demand for the product, one of the main objectives of advertising. More specifically, there ...

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Advertising, Advertising - History, Advertising - Media, Advertising - Objectives, Advertising - Political uses, Advertising - Impact, Advertising - Techniques, Advertising - Public service advertising, Advertising - Social impact, Advertising - Regulation, Advertising - Critiques of the medium, Advertising - Public perception of the medium, Advertising - Future, Advertising - Bibliography

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Jeep - The origin of the term jeep. The origin of the name "jeep" is unclear. Popular notion has it that the vehicle bore the designation "GP" (for "General Purpose"), which was phonetically slurred into the word jeep. R. Lee Ermey, on his television series Mail Call, disputes this, saying that the vehicle was designed for specific duties, was never referred to as "General Purpose," and that the name may have been derived from Ford's nomenclature referring to the vehicle as GP (G for government-use, ...

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Jeep, Jeep - History, Jeep - The origin of the term jeep, Jeep - The origins of the vehicle: the first jeep, Jeep - The Jeep marque, Jeep - Jeep lineup, Jeep - Historical models, Jeep - Current models, Jeep - Future models

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The brand name Aspirin was coined by the Bayer company of Germany. In some countries the name is used as a generic term for the drug rather than the manufacturer's trademark. In countries in which Aspirin remains a trademark, the initialism ASA is used as a generic term (ASS in German-language countries, for Acetylsalicylsäure; AAS in Spanish- and Portuguese-language countries, for ácido acetilsalicílico). The name "aspirin" is composed of a- (from the acetyl group) -spir- (from the spiraea flower) and -in (a common ending for drugs at the time). Bayer registered it ...

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Aspirin, Aspirin - Name, Aspirin - Discovery, Aspirin - Synthesis of aspirin, Aspirin - How it works, Aspirin - Indications, Aspirin - Contraindications and warnings, Aspirin - Common side-effects, Aspirin - Overdose

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Governments have been protecting trade names and trademarks used in relation to food products identified with a particular region since at least the end of the nineteenth century, using laws against false trade descriptions or passing off, which generally protect against suggestions that a product has a certain origin, quality or association when it does not. In such cases the consumer protection benefit is generally considered to outweigh the limitation on competitive freedoms represent ...

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Geographical indication, Geographical indication - History and legal effect, Geographical indication - Provisions of TRIPS

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