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• Roof edge protection
  ...al housing. It often consists of a [[toe board]], a main guard rail and an intermediate rail.".<ref name="Policy on working at height - edge protection 7.2.4">,{{c Many US federal and state laws require building contractors to implement measures to prevent workers
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• Steel
  ...wrought iron]] with [[cast iron]], gaining an ultimate product of a carbon-intermediate steel by the 1st century AD.<ref name="needham volume 4 part 3 563g">{{cite
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• Drywall
  ...ried beneath a level surface. One coat veneer plaster over dry board is an intermediate style step between full multi-coat "wet" plaster and the limited joint-trea ...re barriers, drywall is a [[passive fire protection]] item. In its natural state, gypsum contains the [[water of crystallization]] bound in the form of [[hy
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• Iron
  ...Like other [[Group 8 element]]s, it exists in a wide range of [[oxidation state]]s. Iron and iron [[alloy]]s ([[steel]]s) are by far the most common metals Iron exists from oxidation state &minus;2 to + 6, although +2 and +3 are the most common. It forms binary co
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• Laser safety
  ...[United States]] through consensus standards (ANSI Z136.1) and Federal and state regulations. The international classification described in consensus standa ...commonly pumped by 808&nbsp;nm infrared laser diodes, and also generate an intermediate 1064&nbsp;nm laser beam which is used to produce the final 532&nbsp;nm outp
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• Nosocomial infection
  |involves contact of a susceptible host with a contaminated intermediate object, usually inanimate, such as contaminated instruments, [[Hypodermic n *People in hospitals are usually already in a '''poor state of health''', impairing their defense against bacteria – advanced age or
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• Cadmium
  ...and [[mercury (element)|mercury]]. Similar to zinc it prefers [[oxidation state]] +2 in most of its compounds and similar to mercury it shows a low melting The most common [[oxidation state]] of cadmium is +2, though rare examples of +1 can be found.
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• Mining
  ...ver mines of [[Laurium]], which helped support the Greek [[City-state|city state]] of [[Athens]]. However, it is the [[Ancient Rome|Romans]] who developed l ...gh extraction of minerals and finally to returning the land to its natural state consists of several distinct steps. The first is discovery of the ore body
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• Dithiolene
  ...two. When the latter two are complexed to a metal centre, the [[oxidation state]] of the [[ligand]] (and therefore the metal centre) cannot be easily defin ...general name for the ligand that does not specify a particular oxidations state. This suggestion was generally accepted, and 'dithiolene' is now a universa
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• Equilibrium unfolding
  ...ns (Jackson, 1998); larger domains and multi-domain proteins often exhibit intermediate states. As usual in [[statistical mechanics]], these states correspond to ...he unfolded state is less stable (i.e., disfavored) relative to the native state.
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• Equilibrium chemistry
  ...of change is negligibly slow, the system is said to be in a [[metastable]] state. The equation of chemical equilibrium can be expressed symbolically as ...he macroscopic quantities do not change. Chemical equilibrium is a dynamic state in which forward and backward reactions proceed a such rates that the macro
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• Trans effect
  ...kinetic trans effect'', trans ligands also have an influence on the ground state of the molecule, notably on bond lengths and stability. Some authors prefer ...e case of hydride), which prefer the more π-basic equatorial sites in the intermediate. The second equatorial position is occupied by the incoming ligand; due to
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• Ray-Dutt twist
  ...und state]]s and are thus [[chiral]]. The pathway entails formation of an intermediate of C_2v [[symmetry group|point group symmetry]]. An alternative
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• Bite angle
  One intermediate, RhH(alkene)(CO)L₂, exists in two different structures: the equa ...e it selectively occupies the equatorial plane of the trigonal bipyrimidal intermediate complex ('''Figure 8''').<ref name="ref7" />
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• Intervalence charge transfer
  ...ermal or photoinduced) between two metal sites differing only in oxidation state. Quite often such electron transfer reverses the oxidation states of the si *class II: 0 < α < 0.707, intermediate interaction between sites. An IVCT band is observed.
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• Emergency medical responder levels by U.S. state
  <!-- If you are expanding the article, PLEASE include a link to your source (state website with licensing/certification/reciprocity information. If you don't ...hough primary management and regulation of prehospital providers is at the state level, the federal government does have minimum requirements for EMT-Basics
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• List of parasites of humans
  ...Internet]. 2004 Oct; accessed Jan 2009</ref><ref>Bennett, Nicholas John [[State University of New York]] Upstate Medical University Domachowske, Joseph; Khan, Asad A [[Louisiana State University]] Health Science Center; King, John W; Cross, J Thomas [http://
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• Phosphate homeostasis
  ...is is a relatively stable state of equilibrium or a tendency toward such a state of an open or closed system, especially a living [[organism]]. An organism ...of a phosphate group to [[adenosine diphosphate]] (ADP) from a [[reactive intermediate]]. [[Photophosphorylation]] uses solar energy to synthesize ATP.
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• Lymph node
  ...ymphocytes continuously recirculate the peripheral lymphoid organs and the state of the lymph nodes depends on infection. During an infection, the lymph no ...ange in size from a few millimeters to about 1–2&nbsp;cm in their normal state.<ref name=grays/> They may become enlarged due to a tumor or infection. Lym
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• Cardiac muscle
  ...rise cardiac muscle are called cardiomyocytes and are sometimes seen as an intermediate between other types of muscle in terms of appearance, structure, metabolism ...bodies]]. However, these proportions vary widely according to nutritional state. For example, during starvation, lactate can be recycled by the heart. This
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