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• GNU Free Documentation License
  ...dom: to assure everyone the effective freedom to copy and redistribute it, with or without modifying it, either commercially or noncommercially. Secondaril ...because free software needs free documentation: a free program should come with manuals providing the same freedoms that the software does. But this Licens
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• Fallout shelter
  ...nts as makeshift fallout shelters. These buildings were usually placarded with the yellow and black trefoil sign as shown in the top of this article. The ...n fallout shelters in the early 1960s were sometimes funded in conjunction with funding for other federal programs, such as urban renewal projects of the F
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• Datura inoxia
  [[Image:Datura innoxia fruit split open.jpg|thumb|left|200px|''D. inoxia'' with ripe, split-open fruit]] ...It has [[Leaf shape|elliptic]] [[Leaf#Margins_(edge)|entire-edged]] leaves with [[Leaf#Venation (arrangement of the veins)|pinnate venation]].<ref name="Pr
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• Atropa belladonna
  ...s a pale yellow flowering form called ''Atropa belladonna'' var. ''lutea'' with pale yellow fruit. ...several weeks under alternating temperature conditions but can be sped up with the use of [[gibberellic acid]].<ref>{{cite journal|author=Genova E, Komits
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• Polymer nanocomposite
  ...er on the nanometer level is making possible a new generation of materials with enhanced mechanical, optical, transport and magnetic properties. ...Because of the higher surface area of the nano-particles, the interaction with the other particles within the mixture is more and this increases the stren
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• Depleted uranium
  ...concluded: "In aggregate the human epidemiological evidence is consistent with increased risk of birth defects in offspring of persons exposed to DU."<ref ...ssible to design [[Pressurized Heavy Water Reactor|civilian power reactors with unenriched fuel]], but only about 10 percent of reactors ever built utilize
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• Bamboo
  ...nths. During this first season, the clump of young shoots grow vertically, with no branching. In the next year, the pulpy wall of each [[culm]] or stem slo ...ame stock flower at the same time, regardless of differences in geographic locations or climatic conditions, then the bamboo dies. The lack of environmental imp
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• Ethylene oxide
  ...thus easily [[polymerisation|polymerizes]]. Ethylene oxide is [[isomer]]ic with [[acetaldehyde]]. It is a strong poison to humans, showing carcinogenic, [ ...|year=1859| title=}}</ref> who prepared it by treating [[2-chloroethanol]] with [[potassium hydroxide]]:
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• Cancer
  ...or]] but some, like [[leukemia]], do not. The branch of medicine concerned with the study, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of cancer is [[oncology]]. Cancer affects people at all ages with the risk for most types increasing with age.<ref name="Cancer Research UK">{{cite web | last =Cancer Research UK |
  94 KB (13,321 words) - 20:32, 20 September 2010
• Occupational hygiene
  ..., evaluating and controlling [[health]] hazards in the working environment with the objective of protecting worker health and well-being and safeguarding t ...urces). The term "Industrial Hygiene" traditionally stems from industries with construction, mining or manufacturing and "Occupational Hygiene" refers to
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• Arsenic
  ...in a technical sense. Arsenic occurs in many minerals, mainly associated with sulfur and metals. Arsenic and its compounds are mainly used as an alloyin ...Yellow arsenic is produced by rapid cooling of arsenic vapour, for example with liquid nitrogen. It is rapidly transformed into the grey arsenic by light.
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• Wildfire
  ...uring the year 2002.|alt=An artificially colored satellite view of Africa, with red and yellow markers where fires have been detected. A wide red band of m ...es, which relate to fires of all sizes, are influenced more by the way the media portrays catastrophic wildfires than by small fires.<ref name="Alvarado, et
  88 KB (12,641 words) - 20:35, 20 September 2010
• Electromagnetic field
  ...s the sources of the field. The way in which charges and currents interact with the electromagnetic field is described by [[Maxwell's equations]] and the [ ...transferred continuously through the electromagnetic field between any two locations. For instance, the metal atoms in a [[radio]] [[transmitter]] appear to tra
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• HealthyWage
  | locations = ...sdate=2010-8-8}}</ref> HealthyWage pays a large prize to the participants with the greatest percentage weight loss.<ref name="Huffington Post">{{cite news
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• Lead
  '''Lead''' is a main-group [[Chemical element|element]] with symbol '''Pb''' ({{lang-la|plumbum}}) and [[atomic number]] 82. Lead is a s ...es in air to produce the commonly observed dull luster normally associated with lead. It is a [[density|dense]], [[ductile]], very soft, highly malleable,
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• National Mine Map Repository
  ...ated data for economic analysis to assessing the potential risk associated with underground mining. Through analysis of mine maps and related information, ...e exception of [[Louisiana]] and [[Minnesota]]. These two states, together with [[Arizona]], [[New Mexico]], [[North Dakota]], [[South Dakota]], [[Wyoming]
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• Lymphopoiesis
  ...assuredly not the blood system. Connected to, parallel to and interacting with and feeding into the blood system, yes, but easily distinguished apart by a Lymphopoiesis is now used interchangeably with the term "lymphocytopoiesis" - the making of lymphocytes - but other source
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• Salvia divinorum
  | image_alt = A short green plant with many elliptical shaped leaves of arcuate venation ...87" /> has hollow square stems, large leaves, and occasional white flowers with violet [[sepal|calyx]]. Botanists have not determined whether ''Salvia divi
  133 KB (18,241 words) - 21:14, 21 September 2010
• Trichloroethylene
  ...only used as an industrial [[solvent]]. It is a clear non-flammable liquid with a sweet smell. ...when used with soda lime, and evidence of hepatotoxicity as had been found with chloroform.
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• Beltway sniper attacks
  [[Image:Beltway sniper map.png|right|thumb|300px|Locations of the 15 sniper attacks numbered chronologically.]] ...990 [[Chevrolet Caprice]] sedan, and had apparently begun the month before with [[murder]]s and [[robbery]] in [[Louisiana]] and [[Alabama]], which had res
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