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  1. Steel (28384 bytes)
    3: ...[[carbon]]; ironically, alloys with higher carbon content than this are known as [[cast iron|iron]].
    8: ...take place in a fairly oxygen-free environment. Unlike copper and tin, liquid iron dissolves carbon q...
    11: ...ub>C. Cementite forms in regions of higher carbon content while other areas revert to ferrite around it. S...
    19: At this point, if its carbon content is high enough to produce a significant concentra...
    21: ...osphorus]] make steel more brittle, so these commonly found elements must be removed from the ore duri...
  2. Denis Diderot (13048 bytes)
    1: [[Image:DiderotVanLoo.jpg|thumb|right|''Portrait of Diderot'' by [[Lo...
    3: ...t became known as the [[The Age of Enlightenment|Enlightenment]], and was the editor-in-chief of the f...
    5: ...ions regarding [[novel]]s and their structure and content, while also examining [[philosophy|philosophical]...
  3. Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
    13: ... inner minds- but, as far as the revealed psychic content was concerned, Woolf's women might have lived in ...
    60: ...ature.com/virginia_woolf/ Read her literature at online-literature.com]
    61: .../etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/w/woolf/virginia/ Online editions of her works] from [http://etext.libr...
  4. Tori Amos (27672 bytes)
    23: ...s, it garnered mixed reviews. The erratic lyrical content of its songs seemed unduly indecipherable to some...
    36: ...itics saw the album as a mixed bag, praising the unlikely reworkings of [[Eminem]]'s "97' Bonnie and C...
    41: ... Aucoin]], a friend of Amos'. A contest was held online to create a music video for the song, and it r...
    45: ...centive to buy the album rather than download its contents illicitly, the CD also served as a key to access...
    91: ...ack''''': Amos' fifth tour was [[North America]]-only. The first part of the tour was co-headlining wi...
  5. Joan of Arc (27453 bytes)
    18: ...]], with a loss of 2,200 English soldiers versus only a little over 20 French and Scots. This allowed...
    33: ...nfirmed that this was based on a distortion: she only objected to being tried by pro-English clergy wh...
    38: ...] cemetery and threatened with summary execution unless she signed a confession and agreed to wear a d...
    43: ...ree surviving members of Jeanne d'Arc's family. Unlike the original trial, the appellate process incl...
    47: ...imprisonment, Joan of Arc wore clothing more commonly worn by men. Her motive is given in her own word...
  6. Rose (15436 bytes)
    25: ...xception of ''[[Rosa sericea]]'' which often has only four), usually white or pink, in a few species y...
    29: ...vily browsed by [[deer]]. A few species of roses only have vestigial thorns that have no points.
    67: ...] are sometimes eaten, mainly for their vitamin C content. They are usually pressed and filtered to make ro...
    114: Roses are commonly portrayed by [[artist]]s. The [[France|French]] ...
    125: ...f production is in the [[Rose Valley]] near [[Kazanluk]] in [[Bulgaria]], with some production in [[Qa...
  7. Gastrointestinal tract (16596 bytes)
    59: ...s can propel food and liquid and also can mix the contents within each organ. Typical movement of the esoph...
    65: ...on. The third task of the stomach is to empty its contents slowly into the small intestine.
    67: ...ices from the pancreas, liver, and intestine, the contents of the intestine are mixed and pushed forward to...
    79: .... The bile acids dissolve the fat into the watery contents of the intestine, much like detergents that diss...
    96: ... such as butter is to dissolve it into the watery content of the intestinal cavity. The bile acids produced...
  8. Skin (8340 bytes)
    4: Skin on creatures regularly subjected to [[sunlight]] have [[pigment]]ation which absorbs the pot...
    6: ...icient density is called [[fur]]. The [[hair]] mainly serves to augment the insulation the skin provid...
    29: ...as a larger stratum corneum with a higher keratin content. Thick skin does not grow hair; its purpose is to...
    40: ...der to facilitate the evaporation of the sweat. Sunlight, water and air play an important role in keep...
  9. Ploidy (4598 bytes)
    8: ...ps and ants are also haploid. For organisms that only ever have one set of chromosomes, the term '''mo...
    16: ...cells and the other has diploid cells. Most commonly, the male is haploid and the female is diploid. ...
    21: ... a normal cell to spit out half of its chromosome content, leaving just one set. In [[mammals]] this rende...
    34: ...me copy number of 1 to 4, and that number is commonly fractional, counting portions of the chromosome ...
  10. Bee (11175 bytes)
    37: ...to survive on her own for at least a short time (unlike queens in eusocial species who must be cared f...
    45: ... is probably triggered by day length. She is the only fertile [[female]], and deposits all the [[Egg (...
    61: ...ree years, while workers have an average life of only three months (during the foraging season, but lo...
    65: ...y honeycomb cells to dry, which reduces the water content to less than 20%. When nectar is being processed,...
  11. Scientific revolution (17675 bytes)
    3: ... [[natural philosophy|natural philosopher]]. Not only were there major theoretical and experimental de...
    9: ...ically sudden changes in science, not only in its content but in its practice and theory. Science, as it is...
    31: ...ening period. Margolis reports that the most commonly suggested candidate for filling the gap is [[Alh...
    40: ...contemporaries preposterous. It contradicted not only the virtually unquestioned Aristotelian [[philos...
    42: ...system to calculate the movement of the planets, only a handful actually accepted it as true theory. I...
  12. Pottery (17136 bytes)
    4: ..."earthenware" and "stoneware" are generally used only for relatively easily constructed utensils such ...
    21: ... in a day. Because of its nature, wheel work can only be used to initially create items with radial sy...
    23: ...rial" methods by modern studio potters. There is contention among potters over whether a "jigged" piece ca...
    25: ...ly), and allowed to air-dry. This method is commonly used for smaller decorative pieces, such as figu...
    32: ...sal or decorative item. This method is most commonly used for handbuilt pieces. Coloured clay can al...
  13. Relic (11473 bytes)
    15: ...e the keywords of a religious technique and their content is wholly supernatural. In a practical way the se...
  14. Blast furnace (4721 bytes)
    1: ...at the [[chemical reaction]] does not take place only at the surface. Typically this is used for the ...
    9: ...are poured in the top, which would normally burn only on the surface. Pre-heated air was blown into th...
    23: ...urther processing was needed to reduce the carbon content for use as a construction material. This is done ...
  15. Woodworking (12397 bytes)
    7: ...with stone, mud, and animal parts, wood was certainly one of the first materials worked by primitive h...
    37: ...rmer: a chisel bevelled on both sides instead of only one
    61: * seasoning: reducing the moisture content of wood before working to prevent cracking, split...
    73: * veneer: very thin slices of wood used for inlay or to cover surfaces
    85: ...y]] – The practice of creating patterns by inlaying different wood veneers; with different colou...
  16. Ptolemy (10609 bytes)
    5: ...Arabic manuscripts (hence its familiar name) and only made available in Latin translation (by [[Gerard...
    7: ...tral to the modern system of constellations, but unlike the modern system they did not cover the whole...
    9: ...]] in the Roman empire at his time. He relied mainly on the work of an earlier geographer, Marinos of...
    14: ...frica; Ptolemy was well aware that he knew about only a quarter of the globe.
    16: ...scripts of Ptolemy's ''Geography'' however, date only from about 1300, after the text was rediscovered...
  17. Map (10223 bytes)
    23: ...in such a way that you cannot read them properly unless you put the imperial palace above your head.
    37: ... similarly in mind, cartographers will censor the content of the space depicted by a map in order to provid...
    43: ... soil type or land use. Geological maps show not only the physical surface, but characteristics of the...
    54: #enlarging the same map without enlarging the [[pixel]]s, hence show more detail
    55: #enlarging the same map with the pixels enlarged (replaced by rectangles of pixels); no addit...
  18. Legume (2428 bytes)
    12: ...gh nitrogen-fixation symbiosis. This high protein content makes them desirable crops in [[agriculture]]. F...
  19. Plate tectonics (27764 bytes)
    10: ...''plate boundary'', and plate boundaries are commonly associated with geological events such as earthq...
    12: ...ental ones due to their greater [[mafic]] mineral content. As a result, the oceanic lithospheres generally ...
    19: ...ur where two plates slide towards each other commonly forming either a [[subduction]] zone (if one pla...
    37: ...ce, forming long chains of [[volcano|volcanoes]] inland from the continental shelf and parallel to it....
    63: ...g of material at mid-ocean ridges is almost certainly part of this convection. Some early models of pl...
  20. Igneous rock (11419 bytes)
    6: ...e [[Continental crust|continents]], but averages only some 7 kilometers (4.3 miles) beneath the [[Ocea...
    8: ...a from which the minerals crystallize is rich in only certain elements: [[silicon]], [[oxygen]], [[alu...
    17: ... [[tungsten]], [[tin]], and [[uranium]], are commonly associated with [[granite]]s.
    35: ... a result of volcanic activity. The temperatures only a few kilometers beneath the surface of the eart...
    39: ...thin sections of the rock under a microscope, so only an approximate classification can usually be mad...

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