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  • ...y Press|year=2001|pages=xii|nopp=true}}</ref> and that, from time to time, one of their number "wanders from its own sphere and appears as an occasional v ...e=123 | issue=2 | pages=1039–1049 | year=2002 | doi=10.1086/338692 }}</ref>One such area of replenishment is the [[Oort cloud]]; the spherical swarm of co ...
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  • ...iscussed the Moon's sphericity, its illumination by reflecting sunlight on one side and remaining dark on the other, and the nature of [[Solar eclipse|sol ...ies offered Zhang appointments to several offices, including a position as one of the [[Three Excellencies]], yet he acted modestly and turned down those ...
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  • ...s recognized that a substance with anti-oxidative activity is likely to be one that is itself readily oxidized.<ref>Moreau and Dufraisse, (1922) ''Comptes ...nt system.<ref name="Vertuani" /> The amount of protection provided by any one antioxidant will also depend on its concentration, its reactivity towards t ...
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  • Many critics lauded the album as Powderfinger's best work; one stated that the album was "the Finger's Crowning Glory", however, others we ...ussed love, a recurring motif in Fanning's songwriting. Fanning noted that one of the causes of this was his passion for [[soul (music)|soul]] and [[gospe ...
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  • ...p=note>As of 2007, water vapor has been detected in the atmosphere of only one extrasolar planet, and it is a gas giant. See: {{cite journal ...ef> producing seasonal variations on the planet's surface with a period of one [[tropical year]] (365.24 solar days). Earth's only known [[natural satelli ...
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  • ...Neptune. On 24 May 1981, they detected a dip in a star's brightness during one occultation; however, the manner in which the star dimmed did not suggest a ...x years, approximately 50 other occultations were observed with only about one third of them yielding positive results.<ref name="Sicardy1991" /> Somethin ...
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  • ...Like most known moons, Ganymede is [[tidal locking|tidally locked]], with one face always pointing toward the planet.<ref name="The Grand Tour">{{cite bo ...rior of Ganymede; the formation of the grooved terrain may be a result of one or more heating episodes.<ref name=Showman1999/><ref name=Showman1997a/> ...
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  • ...the shape and orientation of the [[orbit (celestial mechanics)|orbit]] of one astronomical body around another, such as a planet revolving around a sun. ...d version of Figure 1, defining the angle θ between '''A''' and '''r''' at one point of the orbit.]] ...
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  • ...stronomer]]. Although few details of his life are known, he is regarded as one of the leading [[scientist]]s in [[classical antiquity]]. Among his advance ...generally considered to be the greatest [[mathematician]] of antiquity and one of the greatest of all time.<ref>{{cite book |last=Calinger |first=Ronald | ...
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  • ...eactions: The two sets of reactions are said to be ''coupled''. This means one cannot occur without the other. The flow of electrons through the electron ...hosphorylation of the 10 NADH and 2 succinate molecules made by converting one molecule of [[glucose]] to carbon dioxide and water.<ref>{{cite journal |au ...
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  • ...he [[calculus of variations]], ''[[Noether's theorem]]'', has been called "one of the most important mathematical theorems ever proved in guiding the deve ...zed by [[poliomyelitis]] at the age of fourteen. He regained mobility, but one leg remained affected. Largely self taught, he was awarded a [[doctorate]] ...
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  • Conversely, one might expect that inertial motions, once identified by observing the actual ...Newtonian connection is not [[integrable systems|integrable]]. From this, one can deduce that spacetime is [[curved]]. The result is a geometric formula ...
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  • ...ext merely requires examining its alphabetic characters and replacing each one by the letter 13 places further along in the [[alphabet]], wrapping back to | <tt>balk</tt> ↔ <tt>onyx</tt> || <tt>bar</tt> ↔ <tt>one</tt> ...
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  • ...tician of the 18th century and one of the greatest of all time. He is also one of the most prolific; his collected works fill 60–80 [[Quarto (text)|quarto ...uctivity on many areas of study actually increased. He produced on average one mathematical paper every week in the year 1775.<ref name="volumes"/> ...
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  • ...for more complicated nuclei this is not always the case. The black bar is one [[ångström]], equal to 10<sup>−10</sup>&nbsp;[[metre|m]] or 100,000&nbsp;[[ ...protons and neutrons having roughly equal mass. Each element has at least one isotope with unstable nuclei that can undergo [[radioactive decay]]. This c ...
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  • ...er science)|synchronization]] between the different subtasks are typically one of the greatest obstacles to getting good parallel program performance. The ...ctions are executed on a [[central processing unit]] on one computer. Only one instruction may execute at a time—after that instruction is finished, the n ...
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  • ...e journal |author=Smith S |title=The animal fatty acid synthase: one gene, one polypeptide, seven enzymes |url=http://www.fasebj.org/cgi/reprint/8/15/1248 ...rate possess specific complementary geometric shapes that fit exactly into one another.<ref>{{cite journal |author=Fischer E.|year=1894|title=Einfluss der ...
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  • ...tal theory]] in mathematics. Cantor established the importance of [[one-to-one correspondence]] between sets, defined [[infinite set|infinite]] and [[well ...ben 2004, p. 1. Text includes a 1964 quote from psychiatrist Karl Pollitt, one of Cantor's examining physicians at Halle Nervenklinik, referring to Cantor ...
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  • ...g organs, must be dug up, broken apart, and replanted. A corm survives for one season, reproducing via this division into up to ten "cormlets" that yield ...bsp;kg of flowers are needed (1&nbsp;lb for 0.2&nbsp;oz of dried saffron). One fresh-picked flower yields an average {{convert|30|mg}} of fresh saffron or ...
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  • ...r spans a range difference of less than a single solar mass. In the Sun, a one solar mass star, only 1.5% of the energy is generated by the CNO cycle.<ref ...the main sequence in the region of class A and F stars, which are between one and two solar masses. Pulsating stars in this part of the instability strip ...
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