Hentai
February 25, 2010, 4:08am
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Williamson ether synthesis - an organic reaction involving the formation of an ether using an organohalide and an alcohol.
Haissan
February 25, 2010, 4:32am
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Xenobiote-Any biote displaced from its normal habitat; a chemical foreign to a biological system.
Hentai
February 25, 2010, 2:56pm
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zebrafish - an important model organism for scientific research
batholith
A batholith (from Greek bathos, depth + lithos, rock) is a large mass of intrusive igneous rock (also called plutonic rock), larger than 100 square kilometres (40 sq mi) in area, that forms from cooled magma deep in the Earth's crust. Batholiths are almost always made mostly of felsic or intermediate rock types, such as granite, quartz monzonite, or diorite (see also granite dome).
Although they may appear uniform, batholiths are in fact structures with complex histories and compositions. They ...
Hentai
February 25, 2010, 6:38pm
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carotene - a pigment found in plants responsible for orange coloration, such as that in carrots or sweet potatoes.
Also, WHOA, batholiths are awesome.
Desertification
Desertification is a type of land degradation in drylands in which biological productivity is lost due to natural processes or induced by human activities whereby fertile areas become increasingly more arid. It is the spread of arid areas caused by a variety of factors, such as through climate change (particularly the current global warming) and through the overexploitation of soil through human activity.
When deserts appear automatically over the natural course of a planet's life cycle, then it...
Hentai
February 25, 2010, 6:52pm
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronegativity - a chemical property of atoms which describes the atoms’ ability to attract electrons to itself (fluorine being the most electronegative of them all). Electronegativity trends increase left to right across rows and down to up columns on the periodic table.
Elphie
February 25, 2010, 6:53pm
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dynamo - a device that creates electricity by turning around a magnet near a coil of wire.
Ferromagnetism
Ferromagnetism is the basic mechanism by which certain materials (such as iron) form permanent magnets, or are attracted to magnets. In physics, several different types of magnetism are distinguished. Ferromagnetism (along with the similar effect ferrimagnetism) is the strongest type and is responsible for the common phenomenon of magnetism in magnets encountered in everyday life. Substances respond weakly to magnetic fields with three other types of magnetism—paramagnetism, diamagnetism, and Pe...
Hentai
February 25, 2010, 7:06pm
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Jay_Gould - proposed the theory of “punctuated equilibrium” alongside Niles Eldridge in 1972, which states that evolution is often stable for long periods of time, punctuated by rare and sudden instances of branching evolution. This counters phyletic gradualism, a theory proposing that evolutionary change is smooth and continuous throughout time.
Isotope
Isotopes are variants of a particular chemical element which differ in neutron number, and consequently in nucleon number. All isotopes of a given element have the same number of protons but different numbers of neutrons in each atom.
The term isotope is formed from the Greek roots isos (ἴσος "equal") and topos (τόπος "place"), meaning "the same place"; thus, the meaning behind the name is that different isotopes of a single element occupy the same position on the periodic table. It was coined b...
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Hentai
February 27, 2010, 8:34am
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaundice - obstruction of bile duct via liver disease or breakdown of white blood cells, resulting in a yellowing of the skin and white of eyes.