Thursday, June 6, 2013

Silicene: a honeycombed, atom-thick sheet of silicon named to recall similarly structured graphene

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Silicene sheets can be epitaxially grown on a close-packed silver surface, Ag(111), via silicon atomic flux under ultrahigh vacuum conditi...
Saturday, June 1, 2013

Translating the names of chemical compounds and compound classes

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Chemists are typically not trained as translators. The latter, on the other hand, often do not have a background in chemistry and materials...
Monday, May 13, 2013

Synonyms for sand corn, the common name of a flowering plant native to the western United States and parts of New Mexico

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Sand corn is a flowering plant found in dry habitats of the western United States ; for example in northwest Nevada . It has two accepte...
Tuesday, May 7, 2013

A term in microbial ecology: disappearing microbiota hypothesis

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Occurrences of certain medical conditions and diseases such as asthma , food allergies , hay fever , eczema , diabetes , obesity and celia...
Friday, May 3, 2013

Trendy and inspirational: the suffixes -ome and -omics

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In the beginning there was the word genome for the complete set of genetic material present in a cell or organism. The German botanist Han...
Friday, April 19, 2013

“How pinteresting”

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Pinteresting , rhyming with interesting, is an adjective derived from the latter and the name of an exciting, rapidly evolving online pinbo...

Abbreviations and acronyms in business

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Business communication is full of secret messages, short lingo, abbreviations and specific acronyms . Whether you are running or workin...