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• Bamboo
  Unlike trees, all bamboo have the potential to grow to full height and girth in a single [[gr ...“alarm clock” in each cell of the plant which signals the diversion of all energy to flower production and the cessation of vegetative growth.<ref nam
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• Iron
  ...irections and thus cancel out. In magnetized iron, the electronic spins of all the domains are aligned, so that the magnetic effects of neighboring domain ...her metals and with carbon to form steels. There are many types of steels, all with different properties, and an understanding of the properties of the [[
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• Wood
  ...s have lost their cytoplasm and the cells are therefore functionally dead. All wood in a tree is first formed as sapwood. The more leaves a tree bears and ...imbs almost, if not entirely, to the ground, but as it grows older some or all of them will eventually die and are either broken off or fall off. Subseque
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• Audiobook
  ...sette tapes, downloadable digital formats (e.g., [[MP3]] (.mp3), [[Windows Media Audio]] (.wma), and [[Advanced Audio Coding]] (.aac)). A benefit to the CD ...ns of recorded books to more than 700,000 Physically challenged listeners. All NLS recordings were created by professionals.
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• Ethylene oxide
  |accessdate = 2009-09-23}}</ref> Since 1940, almost all ethylene oxide produced industrially uses this method.<ref>{{cite journal|t * [[Gibbs free energy]], ΔG°₂₉₈ = –11.68 kJ/mol;
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• Cancer
  ...cessdate =2007-06-25 }}</ref> Cancer caused about 13% of [[causes of death|all human deaths]] in 2007<ref name="WHO">{{cite web | last =WHO | authorlink = ...replication]], or are [[genetic disorder|inherited]], and thus present in all cells from birth. The [[heritability]] of cancers is usually affected by co
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• Workplace stress
  ...of stress. While workplace stress has the potential to affect employees of all categories; those who have very little influence to those who make major de ...kplace, for at least some portion of their work schedule, using electronic media to interact with others inside and outside the organization." One reason th
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• Work–life balance
  ...ls of [[absenteeism]] as well as rising workers’ compensation claims are all evidence of an unhealthy work life balance. {{Citation needed|date=February ...[McGill University]] researchers, the United States lags far behind nearly all wealthy countries when it comes to family-oriented workplace policies such
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• COSHH
  ...t Work etc. Act 1974]], [http://www.statutelaw.gov.uk/content.aspx?LegType=All+Legislation&title=health+and+safety+at+work+etc+act&Year=1974&searchEnacted | [[Manufacturing|Manufacture]] and use for all purposes, including any manufacturing process in which such a substance is
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• Emergency management
  ...emergency management relies on thorough integration of emergency plans at all levels of government and non-government involvement. Activities at each lev Emergency Managers in the planning phase should be flexible, and all encompassing - carefully recognizing the risks and exposures of their respe
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• Arsenic
  ...e metalloidal forms of arsenic, each with a different structure, are found free in nature (the minerals arsenic ''[[sensu stricto]]'' and the much rarer ar ...idylserine|last = Jennewein|first =Marc|pmid = 18316558|issue = 5|format = Free full text|last2 = Lewis|first2 = M. A.|last3 = Zhao|first3 = D.|last4 = Tsy
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• Mining
  ...the deposits. [[Spain]] was one of the most important mining regions, but all regions of the [[Roman Empire]] were exploited. They used [[reverse oversho ...n_steel.html</ref> The silver crisis of 1465 occurred when the mines had all reached depths at which the shafts could no longer be pumped dry with the a
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• Electromagnetic field
  ...xwell's equations change by switching the permeability and permittivity of free space with the permeability and permittivity of the linear material in ques When a field travels across to different media, the properties of the field change according to the various boundary condi
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• HealthyWage
  ...ary 2010, the company became the first in the [[United States]] to offer a free health incentive directly to consumers. ...hey lose too much weight too quickly, so the winning team is the one where all five teammates guide one another through several months of healthy weight l
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• Lead
  ...s and as a [[radiation shield]]. Lead has the highest [[atomic number]] of all of the [[stable element]]s, although the next higher element, [[bismuth]], ...of [[antimony]], or of a small number of other metals such as [[calcium]]. All [[isotope]]s of lead, except for lead-204, can be found in the end products
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• G.hn
  ...04/how-fast.html DS2 Blog: How fast can G.hn be?]</ref> and operation over all three types of legacy home wires: [[telephone wiring]], [[coaxial cables]] ...eed-a-unified-standard-at-all-1.html "Why do we need a unified standard at all?"], HomeGrid Forum Blog</ref> and lower deployment costs for service provid
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• Acid dissociation constant
  ...on of the deprotonated form A-, times the equilibrium concentration of H+, all divided by the equilibrium concentration of the acid AH." >K_{\mathrm a} = ...p''K''_a value is directly proportional to the standard [[Gibbs free energy|Gibbs energy change]] for the reaction. The value of the p''K''_{76 KB (11,861 words) - 20:17, 21 September 2010
• Dissociation (chemistry)
  ...ereas in a strong electrolyte a higher ratio of solute dissociates to form free ions. ...ub>2}SO₄, NaCl. These will all exist as ions in an aqueous media.
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• PH
  ...H₉O₄⁺) to account for [[solvation]], but all describe the same entity. ...</sup>, such that the total scale includes the effect of both [[proton]]s (free hydrogen ions) and hydrogen sulfate ions:
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• Chemical equilibrium
  ...n of a reaction is said to lie far to the right if, at equilibrium, nearly all the reactants are used up and far to the left if hardly any product is form ...]] that has occurred, ranging from zero for all reactants to a maximum for all products) vanishes, signalling a [[stationary point]]. This derivative is u
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