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- Locomotive (16705 bytes)
25: ...) reached 126 mph (203 km/h) on a slight downhill gradient down Stoke Bank on [[3 July]] [[1938]]. Aerodynam...
45: ...umber 43. The unpowered carriages were simultaneously reclassifed as individual coaches - the number o...
60: Diesel-hydraulic locomotives are slightly more efficient than diesel-electrics, but w...
82: ...hird-rail locomotives are operated by the [[Long Island Rail Road]] and [[Metro-North Railroad]] betwe...
85: ...|Transrapid maglev train on the test track at [[Emsland]], Germany.]] - Pulmonary alveolus (8193 bytes)
16: ...transport. Substances move down a [[concentration gradient]]. Oxygen moves from the alveoli (high oxygen con...
20: ...and [[reflex]] [[coughing]] and [[sneezing]] to dislodge mucus contaminated with dust particles or mic... - Kidney (12846 bytes)
9: ...evel T12 to L3, and the right kidney usually lies slightly lower than the left in order to accommodate...
39: ...860s. The loop of Henle maintains an [[osmotic]] gradient set up as a [[countercurrent exchange]] to filter...
93: ...c condition characterized by abnormal and dangerously high levels of urea, creatinine, various body wa... - California (63989 bytes)
93: ...arci RodrÃguez de Montalvo]], where there is an island paradise called California. (For further discu...
107: ...o a sudden end, however, when Commodore [[John D. Sloat]] of the [[United States Navy]] sailed into [[...
109: ...f the [[USA]] as a [[free state]] (one in which [[slavery]] was prohibited).
120: ...dently elected constitutional officers, the [[legislative branch]] consisting of the [[California Asse...
122: ...cisions are thus not made on the floor of the legislature but in back-room deals by the "[[Big Five (C... - Desert (21206 bytes)
14: ...extremely arid land are deserts, and semiarid grasslands generally are referred to as [[steppes]].
16: ...ized as being located in the desert. The [[North Slope]] of Alaska's [[Brooks Range]] also receives l...
46: ...n crosses India, it loses moisture on the eastern slopes of the [[Aravalli Range]]. The [[Thar Desert]...
83: ... and serve as "trees" of the desert. Saguaro grow slowly but may live 200 years. When 9 years old, the...
91: ... highlands. These streams fill the channel with a slurry of mud and commonly transport considerable qu... - Sun (20830 bytes)
151: ...e the material grows cooler with altitude, this [[gradient]] in temperature is not strong enough to drive [[...
205: ...la]]. The Sun will then become a [[white dwarf]], slowly cooling over eons. This [[stellar evolution|...
272: * [http://science.msfc.nasa.gov/ssl/pad/solar/default.htm NASA/Marshall Solar Physics... - Meteorology (19082 bytes)
3: ...erature]], [[pressure]], [[water vapor]], and the gradients and interactions of each variable, and how they ...
16: ...extent of the large scale interaction of pressure gradient force and deflecting [[coriolis effect|force]] th...
44: ...ade by the use of ''ensemble forecasting'' (using slightly different starting conditions to make sever...
66: ...d is powered by a temperature differential. It is slowed by obstructions and is generally stronger at ... - Carnivorous plant (44834 bytes)
156: ...l, and their trapping mechanism is triggered in a slightly different manner.
192: ...number of species in the [[Martyniaceae]] (previously the [[Pedaliaceae]]), such as ''[[Ibicella lutea...
202: ...learly), and flypapers show a simple evolutionary gradient from sticky, non-carnivorous
218: ...contract by quickly altering their water content. Slow-moving flypapers like ''Pinguicula'' use growth...
254: ... nutrients at all. Respiration is a straight line sloping down under the horizontal axis (respiration ... - Mitochondrion (10103 bytes)
51: ...y to pump [[proton]]s (H<sup>+</sup>) against a [[gradient]] (the concentration of protons in the intermembr...
53: ... in the intermembrane space, a strong ''diffusion gradient'' is built up. The only exit for these protons is... - Erosion (6998 bytes)
9: ...]], the texture of the soil, the steepness of the slope, and ground cover (from vegetation, rocks, etc...
11: ...eive less intense precipitation and are on gentle slopes tend to erode less.
24: ...in general terms as a [[landslide]]. However, landslides can be classified in a much more detailed way...
26: ...me cases the slump is caused by water beneath the slope weakening it. In many cases it is simply the r...
28: ...ever, the term can also describe the rolling of dislodged soil particles 0.5 to 1.0 mm in diameter by ... - Continental shelf (2503 bytes)
1: ...is the continental slope which has a much steeper gradient than the shelf. It merges into the flat ocean flo...
3: ...]], which joins [[Borneo]], Sumatra, and [[Java (island)|Java]] to the Asian mainland. Other familiar ... - Pressure (9004 bytes)
14: The [[gradient]] of pressure is [[force density]]. - Albatross (4372 bytes)
21: ...ronts gaining [[energy]] from the vertical [[wind gradient]]. Their principal food is [[cephalopod]]s. - Hot spring (7271 bytes)
7: ... increase with depth is known as the geothermal [[gradient]]. If water percolates deeply enough into the cr...
9: ...ear the [[boiling point]]. People have been seriously burned and even killed by accidentally or intent...
57: *Pemberton: [[Meagre Creek Hot Springs]], [[Sloquet Creek Hot Springs]] and [[Skookumchuck Hot S...
58: *The Queen Charlotte Islands: [[Hot Springs Island]] - Avalanche (25211 bytes)
3: ...ed when a build up of [[snow]] is released down a slope, and is one of the major dangers faced in the ...
5: ...at they are made of, for example snow, ice, [[landslide|rock or soil avalanches]]. A mixture of these ...
7: ...p. The Mayor of [[Chamonix]] was charged with manslaughter. [http://www.pistehors.com/articles/avalan...
12: ...s and trees, stress support from top or bottom of slope).
14: ...ary of climbing terms#Serac|serac]] crumbled on a slope above them and swept them into a [[crevasse]] ... - Cyclone (6571 bytes)
6: ...of a cyclone is a low-pressure region. [[Pressure gradient force]], from high- to low-pressure reasons, caus...
16: ...er, and some if it through horizontal temperature gradients in the atmosphere. They move out of the extratr...
18: ...ning" of the [[extratropical cyclone]] progresses slowly. Often, the [[sea-level pressure]] in the [[...
32: ...nce of a type of ''cyclone'' which had not previously been documented. They are intense storms with h... - Biology (23579 bytes)
64: ...nly believed that life forms can appear spontaneously under certain conditions (see [[abiogenesis]]).
77: ...A microscopic [[bacterium]] responding to a local gradient in sugar is as much responding to its environment... - Subduction (7616 bytes)
7: ...0 km depth - are disrupted by the descent of cold slabs in deep subduction zones
11: ...ate chains, hence the term [[volcanic arc]] or [[island arc]]. Not all "volcanic arcs" are arced: tren...
13: ...cs tend to form at a location where the subducted slab has reached a depth of about 100 km. This has ...
15: ...t stratovolcano in the [[Mariana Islands]], an [[island arc]] in the Western Pacific.]]
17: ...ttle fashion than it would in a normal geothermal gradient setting. Because earthquakes can only occur when... - Laboratory (5761 bytes)
12: ...articles from a liquid, or create a [[density]] [[gradient]], [[spectrophotometer]]s to accurately measure t...
26: ...articles from a liquid, or create a [[density]] [[gradient]], [[spectrophotometer]]s to accurately measure t... - Krypton (9031 bytes)
198: ... and north-south atmospheric mixing is relatively slow.
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