Monday, October 31, 2011

A term in biochemistry: anammox for anaerobic ammonium oxidation

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Anammox stands for anaerobic ammonium oxidation , a biochemical reaction that combines ammonium and nitrite (or nitrate) to form dinitrogen...
Sunday, October 30, 2011

HTML5 <canvas> tag: markup, support and non-support

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HTML5 includes the canvas element for display of graphics. Canvas markup is implemented by inserting a <canvas> tag in the desired ...
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Friday, October 28, 2011

A premodifying noun in retail: artisan for hand-crafted—not mass-produced

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An artisan is a skilled worker or craftsman [1]. The word has Latin roots: the verb artire means “to instruct in the arts” [2]. Artesanos...
Thursday, October 27, 2011

A term in computer science and website programming: weblet for individual web page

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A weblet was defined by Al Globus and Chris Beaumont at the NASA Ames Research Center as “a highly interconnected portion of the World Wide...
Thursday, October 20, 2011

A misnomer in chemistry and materials science: β-alumina

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Alumina is aluminum(III) oxide (or aluminium(III) oxide) with the formula Al 2 O 3 . Alumina occurs in different crystalline forms, for exam...

Fossil turtle Kallokibotion bajazidi named by Franz Nopcsa after his Albanian secretary Bajazid Elmaz Doda

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The scientific name Kallokibotion bajazidi refers to a 70-million-year-old fossil turtle that was found in the 1920s in Eastern Hungary (Tr...
Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Synonymous terms in solid-state chemistry: “solid electrolyte,” “fast ion conductor” and “superionic conductor”

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Chapter 13 with the title “Ionic Conductivity and Solid Electrolytes” in the Solid State Chemistry textbook by Anthony West [1] is a good i...