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• Acetic acid
  ...reagent|chemical reagent]] and industrial chemical, used in the production of [[polyethylene terephthalate]] mainly used in soft drink bottles; [[cellulo ...mand of acetic acid is around 6.5 million [[tonne]]s per year (Mt/a), of which approximately 1.5 Mt/a is met by recycling; the remainder is man
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• J. Gordon Melton
  | work_institution = [[University of California, Santa Barbara]] ...ious Leaders of America''<br>''Prime-Time Religion''<br>''The Encyclopedia of American Religions''
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• A. J. Jacobs
  | | caption = Jacobs at the 2009 premiere of ''[[Whatever Works (film)|Whatever Works]]'' ...come the Smartest Person in the World|The Know-It-All]]'',<br>''[[The Year of Living Biblically]]''
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• Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition
  ...ve special value and interest to modern scholars as [[cultural artifact]]s of the 19th and early 20th centuries. ...tors were American, and a New York office was established to run that side of the enterprise.{{Citation needed|date=June 2007}}
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• Encyclopædia Britannica
  | image = {{Double image|center|Spine of Americanized Encyclopaedia Britannica.jpg|49|Americanized Encyclopædia Bri | image_caption = New American edition of the ''Encyclopædia Britannica'' (1899)
  94 KB (12,721 words) - 13:31, 19 September 2010
• Joseph McCabe
  ...peaker]] on [[freethought]], after having been a [[priest]] earlier in his life. ==Early life==
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• Propædia
  ...es listing the staff members, advisors and contributors to all three parts of the ''Britannica''. ==The Outline of Knowledge==
  41 KB (5,585 words) - 13:32, 19 September 2010
• Mortimer J. Adler
  | region = Western Philosophy | era = [[20th-century philosophy]]
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• History of the Encyclopædia Britannica
  ...dergone drastic re-organizations (15th). In recent years, digital versions of the ''Britannica'' have been developed, both online and on [[optical media] {{See also|Encyclopedia|List of encyclopedias}}
  61 KB (8,890 words) - 13:32, 19 September 2010
• The Imperial Gazetteer of India
  ...er of India, 1908-1931, Book cover.jpg|right|thumb|'The Imperial Gazetteer of India' cover, 1931]] [[Image:Imperial gazetteer india1908.jpg|right|thumb|The Imperial Gazetteer of India, 1908, showing the 26 volumes, including the first four encyclopaedic
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• Encyclopedia of the Brethren of Purity
  ...discordant, incoherent views; and it does claim to be a 'complete account of all things' - to contain, in epitome, all that was known at the time it was ...velopment of the Qur'an#"Created" vs. "uncreated" Qur'an]] for the concept of the "uncreated Koran".''</ref>
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• National Fire Fighter Near-Miss Reporting System
  | Non-profit_logo = <br /><small>Logo of the National Fire Fighter Near-Miss Reporting System</small> | focus = To enhance the safety culture of the fire and emergency service.
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• Work–life balance
  ...the other. Related, though broader, terms include "lifestyle balance" and "life balance". ...te 1970s to describe the balance between an individual's work and personal life.<ref>Publication in: New Ways to Work and the Working Mother's Association
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• Work–life balance (United States)
  ...e balance. Related, though broader, terms include "lifestyle balance" and "life balance". ...jobs were covered in early legislation and most had no limit to the number of hours their employers could have them work.
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• Chromium
  ...rom the Greek word "chrōma" (χρώμα), meaning [[color]], because many of its compounds are intensely colored. It was discovered by [[Louis Nicolas V ...] ([[electroplating]] with chromium) are currently the highest-volume uses of the metal. Chromium and [[ferrochromium]] are produced from the single comm
  51 KB (7,299 words) - 21:34, 20 September 2010
• List of cutaneous conditions
  ...eous conditions|Category:Cutaneous conditions|ICD-10 Chapter XII: Diseases of the skin and subcutaneous tissue}} ...pmid17314969">{{cite journal |author=Fuchs E |title=Scratching the surface of skin development |journal=Nature |volume=445 |issue=7130 |pages=834–42 |y
  177 KB (19,269 words) - 21:05, 21 September 2010
• List of foods named after people
  This is a list of '''[[food]] items named after people'''. :For other lists of eponyms (names derived from people) see [[eponym]].
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• List of colleges and universities named after people
  ...eacher]]s or other leaders associated with the institution. This is a list of [[higher education]] institutions named for people. ...d as their founders. A few institutions were named by the founder in honor of a parent, child, spouse, or other close family member.
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• Smoking cessation (cannabis)
  ...h and Welfare.</ref><ref>Copeland, J (2004). Developments in the treatment of cannabis use disorder. ''Current Opinion in Psychiatry'' 17, 2114-2121</ref ...ticle deals with the different interventions to assist in the '''cessation of cannabis use'''.
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• Ethylene
  ...is the most produced [[organic compound]] in the world; global production of ethylene exceeded 107 million metric tonnes in 2005.<ref>“Production: Gro This [[hydrocarbon]] has four [[hydrogen]] [[atom]]s bound to a pair of [[carbon]] atoms that are connected by a [[double bond]]. All six atoms tha
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