Sunday, July 31, 2011

The term “fossil fuel,” a linguistic relic from the time when anything dug from the earth was a fossil

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The modern term “ fossil fuel ” is a linguistic relic from the sixteenth century and earlier times when any natural object or substance dug ...
Friday, July 29, 2011

New philosophy, natural philosophy, mechanical philosophy, experimental philosophy

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New philosophy , natural philosophy , mechanical philosophy , experimental philosophy —these are all terms that describe the new science i...
Thursday, July 28, 2011

A term in geology: principle of superposition

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The principle that in a series of stratified sedimentary rocks the lowest stratum is the oldest , is known in geology as the principle of ...
Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Niels Stensen, following academic custom and going by the name Nicolai Stenonis

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The Danish anatomist and geologist Niels Stensen started his career in the seventeenth century at the University of Copenhagen, where he fo...
Saturday, July 23, 2011

A term in chemistry and spintronics: half-metal for a material with an energy gap depending on electron spin direction

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Metals differ from other chemical elements of the periodic table by their electrical and magnetic properties. A typical metal is characteriz...
Friday, July 22, 2011

Synonymous terms in chemistry and materials science: “conducting polymer” and “conjugated polymer”

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Conducting polymers are often called conjugated polymers due to their macromolecular bond structure with alternating single and double bon...
Sunday, July 10, 2011

Google's “+1” for “plus one” is fun

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We know from arithmetics and computer science that  “ +1 ” means “ plus one .” The Google+ project now introduces the +1 button as a new t...
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