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• Dry-Pack Canning in Canning Jars
  ...d in glass canning jars using oxygen absorbers. It is best to use quart or half gallon jars rather than pint jars or smaller. ...foods may keep longer when dry packed but will probably not have the shelf life of unprocessed, low moisture, low fat foods. These include cornmeal, pearl
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• Fallout shelter
  ...ising the use of fallout shelters appeared in the September, 1961 issue of Life magazine.)<ref>[http://www.em.doe.gov/Publications/timeline_sep1961.aspx DO ...amount of any quantity of material capable of cutting gamma ray effects in half. Shields that reduce gamma ray intensity by 50% (1/2) include 1&nbsp;cm (0.
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• USS Neunzer (DE-150)
  ...a stern shot which tore the DE apart and sent her down with heavy loss of life. ...in the line within range began firing. At 1844, after more than ten and a half hours of attacks, [[U-546]] rolled under for her last dive. Thirty-three of
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• USCGC Half Moon (WAVP-378)
  |Ship image=[[Image:USCGC Half Moon (WAVP-378).jpg|300px|USCGC Half Moon (WAVP-378)]] |Ship caption=USCGC ''Half Moon'' (WAVP-378, later WHEC-378) sometime between 1949 and the Coast Guard
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• USCGC Barataria (WAVP-381)
  ''Barataria'' began life as the [[United States Navy]] [[Barnegat class small seaplane tender|''Barn ...''Bering Strait'' (WHEC-382)]], and [[USCGC Half Moon (WHEC-378)|USCGC ''Half Moon'' (WHEC-378)]] -- in forming Coast Guard Squadron Three. All five cutt
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• USCGC Dexter (WAVP-385)
  ...[[Caribbean Sea]], [[West Africa]], and [[North Africa]] during the first half of [[World War II]]. Converted into an [[Amphibious warfare|amphibious forc ...burg'', which was flooding, on 4 November 1947. ''Dexter'' transferred a [[life raft]] and [[damage control]] [[timber]]s to ''Louisburg'' and escorted her
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• USCGC Gresham (WAVP-387)
  ''Gresham'' began life as the [[United States Navy]] [[Barnegat class small seaplane tender|''Barn ...USCGC ''Barataria'' (WHEC-381)]], and [[USCGC Half Moon (WAVP-378)|USCGC ''Half Moon'' (WHEC-378)]]; like ''Gresham'', they all were former Navy ''Barnegat
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• USCGC Bering Strait (WAVP-382)
  ''Bering Strait'' began life as the [[United States Navy]] [[Barnegat class small seaplane tender|''Barn ...USCGC ''Barataria'' (WHEC-381)]], and [[USCGC Half Moon (WAVP-378)|USCGC ''Half Moon'' (WHEC-378)]]; like ''Bering Strait'' and ''Gresham'', they all were
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• USCGC Yakutat (WAVP-380)
  ''Yakutat'' began life as the [[United States Navy]] [[Barnegat class small seaplane tender|''Barn ...USCGC ''Barataria'' (WHEC-381)]], and [[USCGC Half Moon (WAVP-378)|USCGC ''Half Moon'' (WHEC-378)]]; like ''Yakutat'' and ''Gresham'', they all were former
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• Barnegat class seaplane tender
  ...II. The motor torpedo boat tenders served in the Pacific during the latter half of the war, while the seaplane tenders saw service in virtually every theat ...ng second lives postwar. One became a specialized [[flagship]] late in her life. Some became [[oceanography|oceanographic]] and [[hydrography|hydrographic]
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• The Colony (TV series)
  ...Los Angeles, and follows ten cast members in an environment that simulates life after a global catastrophe.<ref>{{cite web |first=David |last=Allen |url=ht ...homa City, whose natural inclinations allow her to remain calm in extreme, life-threatening situations; thus, she has found herself most at home working in
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• Nag missile
  ...of 0.77 and a CEP of 0.9 metres, and has a 10-year maintenance-free shelf-life. ...ssile to hit targets was validated. Nag missile hit a target at a range of half a kilometers in just 3 seconds.<ref>[http://beta.thehindu.com/news/national
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• 5"/38 caliber gun
  ...unts lacking integral hoists: 12 – 15 rounds per minute}}</ref> Useful life expectancy was 4600 effective full charges (EFC) per barrel.<ref>Naval Weap ...of the mount. In enclosed mounts, he stood on a platform that was located half way up the back bulkhead of the enclosure. There was a hatch on the top of
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• Bofors 40 mm
  ...production, eventually reducing the overall time needed to build a gun by half. In U.S. Army service, the Bofors was known as the '''40&nbsp;mm Automatic ...url=http://www.casr.ca/id-mcdv-midlife2.htm|title=The Kingston Class: 'Mid-Life' or Move Over for the MCDV?|accessdate=February 19, 2007|publisher=[[Canadi
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• GAU-8 Avenger
  ...n weight. The shells also have plastic [[driving band]]s to improve barrel life. They are imposing to examine and handle, measuring {{convert|11.4|in|mm}} ...ystem itself. However, this constant rate of fire would shorten the barrel life considerably and require added barrel inspections and result in shorter int
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• M2 Browning machine gun
  ...ere used, such as the M45 [[Quadmount]] used on the US [[M3 Half-track|M16 half-track]] carrier. Twin or quad-mount .50 M2 guns normally used alternating ...</ref> or perforate the hull plates and fuel tanks of a German [[SdKfz 251|half-track]] or [[Leichter Panzerspahwagen|light armored car]].<ref name="Barnes
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• Sentry gun
  ...me)|Portal]]'', also made by the creators of the [[Half-Life_(series)|Half-Life game series]] prominently features sentry guns that deliver humorous dialog ...ist of Combine combat technology in Half-Life 2#Turret|Sentry guns in Half-Life 2]]
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• Ship gun fire-control systems
  During their long service life, rangekeepers were updated often as technology advanced and by World War II ...r aboard the {{USS|Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr.|DD-850|6}} is protected with one-half inch of armor plate and weighs 16 tons.<ref>[http://www.flickr.com/photos/p
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• Alternator
  ...imes give the frequency in terms of alternations per minute, counting each half-cycle as one ''alternation''; so 12,000 alternations per minute corresponds ...an a DC generator, and the [[slip ring]]s allow for greatly extended brush life. The stronger construction of automotive alternators allows them to use a s
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• Quinine
  | elimination_half-life = ~18 hours ...pelled before it is completely absorbed; this can be corrected by giving a half dose again.
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• Mefloquine
  | elimination_half-life = 2 to 4 weeks ...ournal | volume = 327 | issue = 8 | year = 2003}}</ref> A [[This American Life]] broadcast entitled "Contents Unknown" tells the story of an American who
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• Lidocaine
  | elimination_half-life = 1.5–2 hours ...subsequently to the inactive [[glycine xylidide]]. MEGX has a longer half life than lidocaine but also is a less potent sodium channel blocker. <ref>{{cit
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• Allopurinol
  | elimination_half-life = 2 hours (oxypurinol 18-30 hours) ...| title = Therapeutic effects of xanthine oxidase inhibitors: renaissance half a century after the discovery of allopurinol | journal = Pharmacol. Rev. |
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• Naloxone
  | elimination_half-life = 1–1.5 h .../books?id=slyLreFkHuIC&pg=PA476}}</ref> The effects of naloxone last about half an hour to an hour.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Bosack|first1=Robert|title=Anesth
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• Carbamazepine
  | elimination_half-life = 25–65 hours ...3A4 activity increases, speeding up drug clearance and shortening the half-life. Autoinduction will continue with subsequent increases in dose but will usu
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• Phenobarbital
  | elimination_half-life = 53 to 118 hours ...se range for epilepsy is 60–320&nbsp;mg/day; its very long active [[half-life]] means that for some patients, doses do not have to be taken every day, pa
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• Albendazole
  | elimination_half-life = About 8.5 hours ...n]] and [[phenobarbital]] lower the plasmatic concentration and the [[half life]] of albendazole.<ref name="pmid12021623">{{cite journal
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• Praziquantel
  | elimination_half-life= 0.8 to 1.5 hours (Main Metabolites 4 to 5 hours) ...ly impaired liver function (Child Pugh classes B ll///d C), the serum half-life is increased to 3 to 8 hours. Praziquantel and its metabolites are mainly e
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• Erythromycin
  | elimination_half-life = 1.5 hours ...otein synthesis and subsequently structure/function processes critical for life or replication are inhibited<ref name="ReferenceA"/>. Erythromycin interfer
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• Clofazimine
  | elimination_half-life = 70 days Clofazimine has a very long half life of about 70 days. [[Autopsy|Autopsies]] performed on clofazimine patients h
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• Rifampicin
  |elimination_half-life = 6 to 7 hours The [[half-life]] of rifampicin ranges from 1.5 to 5 hours, though hepatic impairment will
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• Isoniazid
  | elimination_half-life = 0.5-1.6h (fast acetylators), 2-5h (slow acetylators) ...patients metabolize the drug more quickly than others. Hence, the [[half-life]] is [[Bimodal distribution|bimodal]] with peaks at 1 hour and 3 hours in t
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• Cycloserine
  half-life = 10 hrs (normal renal function)
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• Fluconazole
  | elimination_half-life = 30 hours (range 20-50 hours) ...&nbsp;mg per day.{{Citation needed|date=July 2010}} The [[elimination half-life]] of fluconazole follows zero order kinetics, and only 10% of elimination i
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• Flucytosine
  | elimination_half-life=2.4 to 4.8 hours ...s eliminated renally. In normal patients flucytosine has reportedly a half-life of 2.5 to 6 hours. In patients with impaired renal function higher serum le
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• Potassium iodide
  ...5 to 7 days following administration, in keeping with the much longer half-life of this isotope and its greater danger to the thyroid.<ref>Iobenguane Sulfa ...rom nuclear weapons, and the effects can still be measured. Today, nearly half (44.8%) the survivors of Nagasaki studied have identifiable thyroid disease
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• Aciclovir
  | elimination_half-life = 2.2–20 hours ...ribution rate, only 30% is protein-bound in plasma. The [[elimination half-life]] of aciclovir is approximately 3 hours. It is renally excreted, partly by
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• Didanosine
  | elimination_half-life = 1.5 hours ...should be administered on an empty stomach.<ref name="Videxpi" /> The half-life in plasma is only 1.5 hours,<ref name="Videxpi" /> but in the intracellular
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• Stavudine
  | elimination_half-life = 0.8-1.5 hours (in adults) ...f of stavudine is actively secreted unchanged into the urine and the other half is eliminated through endogenic pathways.
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• Ribavirin
  | elimination_half-life=12 days - Multiple Dose; 120-170 hours - Single Dose ...s, but very long-term kinetics are dominated by the kinetics of RBCs (half-life 40 days). RBCs store ribavirin for the lifetime of the cells, releasing it
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• Codeine
  | elimination_half-life = 2.5&ndash;3 h ...and activates codeine into morphine, which then undergoes glucuronidation. Life-threatening intoxication, including respiratory depression requiring intuba
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• 4-Aminosalicylic acid
  | elimination_half-life = ...half.<ref>{{cite journal|author=Boman G|title=Serum concentration and half-life of rifampicin after simultaneous oral administration of aminosalicylic acid
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• Ciprofloxacin
  | elimination_half-life = 4 hours ...FDA 81532304, R.1" /> Biotransformation is hepatic. The [[elimination half life]] is 4 hours.<ref name=ctcos/>
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• Sodium thiopental
  | elimination_half-life = 5.5<ref>{{cite journal |author=Russo H, Brès J, Duboin MP, Roquefeuil B ...hetic plane, and because of its 11.5–26 hour [[Biological half-life|half-life]], consciousness would take a long time to return.<ref>{{cite journal |auth
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• Azithromycin
  | elimination_half-life = 68 hours Azithromycin's half-life allows a large single dose to be administered and yet maintain bacteriostat
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• Metformin
  | elimination_half-life = 6.2 hours ...lin.<ref name= fifty>{{vcite journal |editor=Campbell IW|title=Metformin—life begins at 50: A symposium held on the occasion of the 43rd Annual Meeting o
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• Valproic acid
  | elimination_half-life = 9–16 h ...can we see the forest for the trees? | journal = [[Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences]] | year =2007 | pmid = 17514356 | volume = 64 | pages = 2090 | do
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• Fluoxetine
  | elimination_half-life = 1-3 days (acute); 4-6 days (chronic); Active metabolite Norfluoxetine 4-1 ...an antidepressant drug: twenty years since its first publication |journal=Life Sci |volume=57 |issue=5 |pages=411–41 |year=1995 |pmid=7623609 |doi=10.10
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• Activated carbon
  ...uce the chlorine level of a flowing stream from 5 ppm to 3.5 ppm. A lower half-value length indicates superior performance. |title=Warts and all: straight talking advice on life's embarrassing problems
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• Aspirin
  | elimination_half-life = 300–650&nbsp;mg dose: 3.1–3.2 h<br />1 g dose: 5 h<br />2 g dose: 9 h ...1, 1901), pp: 527-546.</ref> The popularity of aspirin grew over the first half of the twentieth century, spurred by its supposed effectiveness in the wake
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• Enalapril
  | elimination_half-life = 11 hours (enalaprilat) ...half-life 2 to 6 hours) and a subsequent prolonged phase (elimination half-life 36 hours), the latter representing equilibration of drug from tissue distri
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• Sodium nitroprusside
  ...nitroprusside is 1–2 minutes although thiocyanate has an excretion half life of several days.
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• Digoxin
  | elimination_half-life = 36 to 48 [[hour]]s <br /><small>(patients with normal [[renal function]]) ...lity]] in [[congestive heart failure]]. It is shown to increase quality of life, however.
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• Dopamine
  ...r than the NET pathway: in mice, dopamine concentrations decay with a half-life of 200 ms in the caudate nucleus (which uses the DAT1 pathway) versus 2,000 ...er N, Stewart J.The role of dopamine in the nucleus accumbens in analgesia.Life Sci. 1999;65(22):2269-87</ref> [[insular cortex]],<ref>Burkey AR, Carstens
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• Acetic acid
  ...rived from acetic acid, is fundamental to the biochemistry of all forms of life. When bound to [[coenzyme A]], it is central to the [[metabolism]] of [[car ...acid is estimated at 5&nbsp;Mt/a (million tonnes per year), approximately half of which is produced in the [[United States]]. [[Europe]]an production stan
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• Sodium stibogluconate
  | elimination_half-life = ...te is to dilute it in a large amount of fluid which then runs through over half an hour or so.
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• Salbutamol
  | elimination_half-life = 1.6 hours
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• Cortisol
  | elimination_half-life = Cortisol also acts as an anti-diuretic hormone. Half the intestinal diuresis is so controlled.<ref name="pmid7323700"/> Kidney d
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• Ibuprofen
  | elimination_half-life = 1.8–2 h ...s, which is longer than suggested by its short [[Biological half-life|half-life]]. The recommended dose varies with body mass and indication. Generally,
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• Mercury (element)
  ...with a half-life of 46.612 days. Most of the remaining radioisotopes have half-lives that are less than a day. {{chem|199|Hg}} and {{chem|201|Hg}} are the ...ailure]], [[poison]]ing, and [[brain death]]) intended to give him eternal life.<ref>{{cite web|title=Qin Shihuang|publisher=Ministry of Culture, [[People'
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• Morphine
  | elimination_half-life = 2–3 h *[[Death]] or termination of [[life]]
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• Paracetamol
  | elimination_half-life = 1–4 h ...] of paracetamol,<ref>{{cite doi|10.1093/bja/aei109}}</ref> and its [[half life]] is 1–4 hours.
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• Diazepam
  | elimination_half-life = 20–100 hours (36-200 hours for main active metabolite [[desmethyldiazep ..., helping Roche to become a pharmaceutical industry giant. It is two and a half times more potent than its predecessor, which it quickly surpassed in terms
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• Calabar bean
  ...ner than from either alone. Thus atropine will save life after three and a half times the fatal dose of physostigmine has been taken, but will hasten the e ...ong the natives, in which the two opponents divide a bean, each eating one half; that quantity has been known to kill both adversaries. Although thus highl
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• Conium
  ...th green stem, usually spotted or streaked with red or purple on the lower half of the stem. The [[leaf|leaves]] are finely divided and lacy, overall trian ==Life cycle==
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• Temazepam
  |elimination_half-life=8–20 hours ...of the dosage, preferably with a long-acting benzodiazepine with long half life [[active metabolites]] such as [[chlordiazepoxide]] or [[diazepam]] is reco
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• William Robertson Smith
  ==Life== ...ridge|Christ's College]].<ref>John Sutherland Black & George Chrystal, The Life of William Robertson Smith (London: Adam & Charles Black 1912) chs. xi & xi
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• Encyclopædia Britannica
  ...d roughly constant over 70&nbsp;years, with about 40&nbsp;million words on half a million topics.<ref name="index_preface">{{cite book | year = 2007 | titl ...h and 14th editions, devoting roughly three hours per night for four and a half years to read the 11th.<ref>{{cite news | title = Reader | publisher = The
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• Mortimer J. Adler
  ...ad been profoundly influenced by a number of Christian thinkers during his life, ... there were moral—not intellectual—obstacles to his conversion. He ...end because it is never attained at any time in the course of one's whole life. If all ends were terminal ends, there could not be any one of them that is
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• History of the Encyclopædia Britannica
  ...he two men quarreled and they never spoke for the last ten years of Bell's life (1799–1809). ...d the 6th edition, which was completed in May 1823. It was published in 40 half-volume parts, priced 16 shillings in boards. The editor was [[Charles Macla
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• Jewish Encyclopedia
  ...ewish Encyclopedia'', the undertaking seemed then like an effort wasted on half-clad [[Zulus]] in [[South Africa]] and Jewish tailors in New York. Those w
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• A Guide to the Scientific Knowledge of Things Familiar
  | title=The new home; or, Wedded life, its duties, cares and pleasures ...runs were among the highest of any scientific book published in the second half of the 19th century,<ref name="Lightman66" /> and Brewer said the success o
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• The Imperial Gazetteer of India
  ...facturer. The second of his parents' three sons, Hunter began his academic life in 1854 in the Quaker Seminary at Queenswood, Hampshire. After a profitable ..., and he joined it in September 1871. From 1875 to 1881 he spent more than half of every year in England for the purpose of compiling the statistical accou
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• Encyclopedia of the Brethren of Purity
  ...n a ''systematized'', harmonious and co-ordinated view of the universe and life, its origin and destiny, formed out of many discordant, incoherent views; a ...25.</ref> [[Brethren of Purity]] of [[Basra, Iraq]] sometime in the second half of the 10th century [[Common Era|CE]] (or possibly later, in the 11th centu
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• Pathologic nystagmus
  ...[[gabapentin]], an anticonvulsant, was found to cause improvement in about half the patients who received it to relieve symptoms of nystagmus. Other drugs ...ttp://www.theshiftyeyesblog.com The Shifty Eyes Blog] &mdash; a blog about life with nystagmus
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• Procainamide
  | elimination_half-life = ~2.5 to 4.5 hours ...Pharmacol Ther. 1977 Oct;22(4):447-57.</ref>. NAPA has an elimination half-life about twice that of procainamide, and it can reach somewhat higher plasma l
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• Lisinopril
  | elimination_half-life = 12 hours ...om other ACE inhibitors: it is [[Hydrophile|hydrophilic]], has long [[half-life]] and tissue penetration and is not [[metabolism|metabolized]] by the liver
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• Renin inhibitor
  ...bitor of human renin (IC50 in the low nanomolar range), with a plasma half-life of ≈24 hours. [[Aliskiren]] has good water solubility and low lipophilici
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• Conductive polymer
  ...>{{cite journal|doi=10.1196/annals.1292.016|title=An Overview of the First Half-Century of Molecular Electronics|year=2003|last1=Hush|first1=Noel S.|journa ...Wires: Tough, light plastics can carry a current better than many metals" LIFE Dec. 26, 1949.[http://books.google.com/books?id=T0EEAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PP1&pg=PA5
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• Depleted uranium
  ...ars for [[uranium-238]]), but has a considerably shorter [[biological half-life]]. The aerosol produced during impact and combustion of depleted uranium m ...osion and leaks and are repainted and repaired as necessary. The estimated life time of the steel cylinders is measured in decades.<ref>[http://www.ieer.or
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• Ruthenium
  ...s though broken, while the other, cigar-shaped end is relatively smooth.|A half of a pure, [[Electron beam melting|electron-beam remelted]] ruthenium bar]] ...103</sup>Ru with a half-life of 39.26 days and ⁹⁷Ru with a half-life of 2.9 days.<ref name=n1/><ref name=n2/>
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• Sleeping bag
  ...r [[Pryce Pryce-Jones]] in the late 19th century,<ref>[http://a-day-in-the-life.powys.org.uk/eng/home/eo_euklisia.php Euklisia Rug]</ref> is considered by ...n this position. A sleeping bag of this type is packed by being folded in half or thirds, rolled up, and bound with [[strap]]s or cords with [[cord lock]]
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• Building insulation materials
  * Ease of replacement at end of life ...n the northern climates of Europe. The clay coating gives the insulation a half hour fire rating according to DIN (German) standards.
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• Insulated glazing
  </ref>, [[krypton]] (krypton has about half the conductivity of argon) or [[xenon]] to increase the insulating performa The life of an IGU varies depending on the quality of materials used, workmanship an
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• Gunpowder
  Combustion converts less than half the mass of black powder to gas. The rest ends up as a thick layer of [[soo ...edge of gunpowder emerged from the search by alchemists for the secrets of life, to filter through the channels of Middle Eastern culture, and take root in
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• Glossary of textile manufacturing
  ...texture richly figured in the weaving with flowers, fruit, forms of animal life, and other types of ornament. ...are the [[square knot]] and forms of hitching ([[full hitch]] and double [[half hitch]]es).
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• Textile preservation
  ...hs of display, then the rest of the year in dark storage, to prolong their life. ...archival-quality boxes or under cover. Fans and parasols may be stored in half-open positions, which provide the least amount of stress on the fabrics <re
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• Baldachin
  (New Haven & London, 1981).</ref> evolved during the second half of the seventeenth century, developing the medieval tradition of receiving ...lking on each side. An Egyptian Pharaoh, for example, was escorted both in life and in death by such a canopy of estate.
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• Bamboo textiles
  ...particular design of bamboo hats was stereotypically connected with rural life, being worn almost universally by farmers and fishermen in order to protect Deltamethrin, a nerve agent, is applied in over half of the cotton producing countries. Medical analysis in a community in a Sou
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• History of clothing and textiles
  ...Pupa#Cocoon|cocoon]] of [[bombyx mori]], the domesticated silkworm, cut in half by a sharp knife is dated to between 5000 and 3000 BC. Fragments of primiti ...n and Capitalism, 15th–18th Centuries, Vol 1: The Structures of Everyday Life," p 312-3 and 323</ref>
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• Textiles of Mexico
  ...ere high. Large cotton weaving workshops were not founded until the second half of the 17th century. Eventually, the production of this fabric as well as w ...hing he has done every year since. Recognition has come late in Borboa’s life winning awards from FONART and state agencies starting in the 1990s.<ref na
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• Māori traditional textiles
  ...the down threads would be enclosed between two or four cross-threads every half inch or so.<ref>For examples, see [http://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/search ...arly/tei-BesMaor-c6-6.html ''The Maori as He Was: A brief account of Maori life as it was in Pre-European Days'' by Elsdon Best, New Zealand Texts Collecti
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• Automatic lubrication system
  # Less [[wear]] on the components means extended component life, fewer [[breakdown (vehicle)|breakdowns]], reduced [[downtime]], reduced [[ ...predetermined amount of lubricant is dispensed by the metering devices to half of the lubrication points via feed lines.
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• List of National Treasures of Japan (crafts: swords)
  ...lade to the [[Shirayamahime Shrine]] praying for her happiness in the next life; width: {{convert|2.2|cm|abbr=on}} | <span style="display:none">1200</span>[[Kamakura period]], first half of 13th century
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• Bottle wall
  ...ottles thick. Most intriguing though, is the wall made from bottles cut in half, matched, and joined to another bottle of the same size and color. Primitiv ...erworld of shrines, wishing wells, walkways, random constructions, plus 15 life size structures all made from found objects placed in mortar. The name "Bot
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• Metal roof
  ...d to last upwards of 100 years with little or no maintenance. The average life-span of [[asphalt shingle]]s today (since 2001) is 6–9 years [citation ne ...maintenance until the paint fails. These products have been used for over half a century now in the U.S. and few installations have failed. So these roofi
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• Deconstruction (building)
  ...le. Deconstruction focuses on giving the materials within a building a new life once the building as a whole can no longer continue. When buildings reach the end of their useful life, they are typically demolished and hauled to [[landfill]]s. [[Building impl
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• Stainless steel
  ...rwater/preserves/HM_Prop3.pdf |title=A Proposal to Establish the Shipwreck Half Moon as a State Underwater Archaeological Preserve |month=May|year=2000 |pu ...ut 60% recycled material of which approximately 40% originates from end-of-life products and about 60% comes from manufacturing processes.<ref>{{cite web
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• Thuja plicata
  ...6">Stewart (1984), p. 26</ref> There it prospers and accounted for nearly half the vegetation in the area 500 years ago.<ref name="stewart 26"/> Currentl ...ally, native Americans of the West coast also address the species as "long life maker".<ref name="stewart 22"/>
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• Hemp
  ...mino acid]]s and essential fatty acids necessary to maintain healthy human life.<ref>http://www.ratical.org/renewables/hempseed1.html</ref> The seeds can b Uruguay has also approved a project of hemp production as of the second half of 2010.
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