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• The Colony (TV series)
  ...lents include building structures out of natural materials, growing edible plants, sculpting and fire building. John is typically viewed as an eccentric pers
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• Hydroelectric
  ...enhouse gas]] carbon dioxide ({{co2}}) than [[fossil fuel]] powered energy plants. Worldwide, an installed capacity of 777 [[GWe]] supplied 2998 TWh of hydro ...capacity are called [[Run-of-the-river hydroelectricity|run-of-the-river]] plants, since it is not then possible to store water. A [[tidal power]] plant make
  39 KB (5,447 words) - 22:02, 2 July 2010
• Quinine
  * Hobhouse, Henry - ''Seeds of Change Six Plants that Transformed Mankind'' C2005 ISBN(10) 1-59376-049-3
  27 KB (3,844 words) - 15:41, 27 September 2010
• Activated carbon
  ...th an energetically and commercially expensive process <ref name=sabio />. Plants that rely on thermal regeneration of activated carbon have to be of a certa
  41 KB (5,738 words) - 15:47, 27 September 2010
• Aconitum
  These are handsome plants, the tall, erect [[Plant stem|stem]] being crowned by [[raceme]]s of large ...[[Aconitum chinense]]'' - Siebold.&Zucc.<ref>[http://www.pfaf.org/database/plants.php?Aconitum+chinense Aconitum chinense on pfaf.org]</ref> aka ''Aconitum c
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• Datura inoxia
  ...pets. In some places it is prohibited to buy, sell or cultivate ''Datura'' plants.<ref name="Preissel"/> ...another commonly reported effect.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.erowid.org/plants/datura/datura_effects.shtml|title=Erowid Datura Vault : Effects|work=[[Erow
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• Solanum ptychanthum
  ...an infestation can survive and continue to grow even in the shade of crop plants. There are no easy chemical methods for controlling Eastern black nightsha [[Category:Poisonous plants]]
  3 KB (392 words) - 11:26, 7 July 2010
• Kikayon
  [[Category:Poisonous plants]]
  3 KB (569 words) - 11:26, 7 July 2010
• Lithraea molleoides
  *[[List of plants of Cerrado vegetation of Brazil]] *[[List of honey plants]]
  3 KB (462 words) - 11:27, 7 July 2010
• Robinia pseudoacacia
  ..., [[Europe]], [[Southern Africa]] <ref>http://www.biodiversityexplorer.org/plants/fabaceae/robinia_pseudoacacia.htm</ref> and [[Asia]] and is considered an i ...ng or absent on adult crown shoots, up to 2&nbsp;cm long on vigorous young plants. The intensely fragrant [[flower]]s are white, borne in pendulous [[raceme]
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• Encyclopedia of the Brethren of Purity
  ...existence of terrestrial plants precedes that of animals, minerals precede plants, and organism adapt to their environment” <ref>Iqbal, Muzaffar Islam and
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• Mydriasis
  ...pable of constriction and dilation results. Such [[alkaloids]] present in plants of the genus ''[[Brugmansia]]'' may also induce mydriasis.<ref name="van_de ...ine|DMT]], naturally produced by the human body and several hallucinogenic plants, all produce mydriasis by agonizing the [[serotonin|serotonergic]] [[5-HT2A
  9 KB (1,223 words) - 08:40, 20 September 2010
• Ceramic materials
  ...such as advanced drivers for laser-driven [[Nuclear fusion|fusion]] power plants.
  28 KB (3,876 words) - 09:08, 20 September 2010
• Biopolymer
  ...s used for its production include potatoes, corn and rice. In all of these plants, starch is produced in the form of granules, which vary in size and composi ...Cellulose differs in some respects from other polysaccharides produced by plants, the molecular chain being very long and consisting of one repeating unit (
  68 KB (9,959 words) - 09:10, 20 September 2010
• Building insulation materials
  ...ferring to cellulose the generic material that forms the cell walls of all plants, not to cellulose insulation. Unfortunately, all too often this statement i
  49 KB (7,250 words) - 09:14, 20 September 2010
• Bottle wall
  ...the island had no economic means of returning the bottles to the bottling plants from which they had come. He was also concerned with the lack of affordable
  10 KB (1,638 words) - 09:20, 20 September 2010
• Thuja plicata
  ..."FEIS">Fire Effects Information System [http://www.fs.fed.us/database/feis/plants/tree/thupli/all.html ''Thuja plicata'']</ref><ref name="FNA">Flora of North [[Category:Least concern plants]]
  20 KB (3,210 words) - 09:22, 20 September 2010
• Permeable paving
  '''Porous asphalt''' is mixed at conventional asphalt plants, but fine (small) aggregate is omitted from the mixture. The remaining larg
  17 KB (2,512 words) - 09:23, 20 September 2010
• Natural building
  ...heating, [[hot water heat recycling]], biologic air purification by indoor plants, passive or air-to-air/heat-recovery ventilation, solar or annualized cool
  17 KB (2,476 words) - 09:23, 20 September 2010
• Cancer
  ...ases which differ widely in their causes and biology. Any organism, even [[plants]], can acquire cancer. Nearly all known cancers arise gradually, as errors
  94 KB (13,321 words) - 20:32, 20 September 2010

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