Wednesday, July 24, 2013

“Ebbett's Pass” or “Ebbetts Pass?”

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The Ebbett's Pass Trailhead is a gateway for hikers and horseback riders to the Pacific Crest Trail , connecting with scenic lakes a...
Monday, July 22, 2013

A term in biology: constructive neutral evolution

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The rise and evolution of novel, complex structures and operations in biological organisms is typically explained by processes involving ra...
Tuesday, July 9, 2013

Talus, meaning “rock debris” or “slope of rock debris”

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The word talus refers to rock debris at the base of a cliff, crag or valley shoulder. This word may also specify a slope covered with s...
Monday, July 8, 2013

Acronym in scent detection and civil security: EDC for explosive detection canine

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Explosive-sniffing dogs are trained and employed to detect hidden reactive substances with a destructive potential. Such dogs are called b...
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...