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...Talking about viewing the Ocean If I take the attitude of appreciation, it would be absurd to say that this wave is composed of chemical elements which I do not see; and if I take the attitude of physical explanation, it would be equally absurd to deny that such elements are all of which the wave is made. From the one standpoint, the ocean is really e...

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...true, or not? Preface The Basic Elements of Human Understanding are: ... ... Perspective Putting these elements together creates a larger context of awareness which result i... .... What is the Sense of Wonder? The Sense of Wonder blends all the Basic Elements of Understanding together. Without the Sense of Wonder: we co... ...diversity. This infinite diversity comes from infinite permutations of basic elements and structures and designs never repeating themselves exactly ... ...c can and does happen at the Atomic Weight of 13… which is why in many other chemical processes: the next 12-Totality is actually counted from 14, t... ...autiful because all of the supposedly random atoms and molecules and DNA, and chemical and atomic and physical reactions and actions are not random a... ...d Why Life Emerged The basic dynamic balance which produced all the subtle chemical changes in the Earth's atmosphere and surface comes from its ... ... THE PATH OF SPLITNESS Chapter Two: Life 125 125 balanced state, that chemical processes could become dynamically active on the diluted level... ...is. Connection always happens first: Separation always happens second. The chemical makeup of DNA is yet another example of increasingly dynamic, ...

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...reat. A deleterious mercury content had not yet been detected in the great billfish and tunas. There were fewer oil despoliations, and the dumping of chemicals and radioactive wastes had not yet reached a level which would, in the next two decades, cause great submarine areas to be laid waste. Nor had commercial fisheries yet developed their omnivorous technical expertise ...

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...FISH, including shellfish, were the main protein-giving elements of the Hawaiian diet. Pig, dog, chicken and wild birds furnished some additional proteins but the comparatively small supply marked them more for the chiefs than the commoners use. Daily life was one of fishing and c...

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...cause of variability may be attributed to the male and female reproductive elements having been affected prior to the act of conception. Several rea- ... ...r absolute deserts, the struggle for life is al- most exclusively with the elements. That climate acts in main part indirectly by favouring other spec... ...nged legs of the water-beetle, the relation seems at first confined to the elements of air and water. Yet the advantage of plumed seeds no doubt stand... ... varying or plastic condition of the offspring. The male and female sexual elements seem to be affected before that union takes place which is to form... ...look at climate and the physi- cal conditions of life as the all-important elements of distribution, these facts ought to cause surprise, as climate a... ...eitful guide. Nevertheless all living things have much in common, in their chemical composi- tion, their germinal vesicles, their cellular structure, ...

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...tly an extension of that law, and the effect of those same causes, whether chemical or mechanical, from which it results that a vast majority of the v... ...panish colonies do not, like our British ones, carry within themselves the elements of growth. Many Indians of pure blood reside here: the tribe of th... ...in and snow fell. As far as we could make out, he seemed to con- sider the elements themselves as the avenging agents: it is evident in this case, how... ...this case, how naturally, in a race a little more advanced in culture, the elements would become personified. What the “bad wild men” were, has always... ...till night, after having been so long in- volved in the din of the warring elements! January 15th, 1833. — The Beagle anchored in Goeree Roads. Captai... ...ow and then is cleared out, and thrown into a common heap. A great deal of chemical action then commences, salts of various kinds effloresce on the su... ...s say, to gen- erate the metal) are longer. There can be no doubt that the chemical action, already mentioned, each time liberates fresh gold from som... ... not decreased from the want of novelty, even in the slightest degree. The elements of the scenery are so simple, that they are worth mentioning, as a...

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...ames. Leaves of Grass –Whitman 35 17 Expanding and swift, henceforth, Elements, breeds, adjustments, turbulent, quick and audacious, A world pr... ...ipper speeds by under full sail. Allons! with power, liberty, the earth, the elements, Health, defiance, gayety, self esteem, curiosity; Allons! from ... ...man the glory of his daily walk and trade, To sing in songs how exercise and chemical life are never to be baffled, To manual work for each and all, t... ...interminable rivers, you are immense and interminable as they, These furies, elements, storms, motions of Nature, throes of apparent dissolution, you ... ...ter or mistress over them, Master or mistress in your own right over Nature, elements, pain, passion, dissolution. The hopples fall from your ankles, ... ...s with his thrift, The droves and crops increase, the barns are well fill’d. Elements merge in the night, ships make tacks in the dreams, The sailor s...

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.... The most significant discoveries in chemistry and physics are presented chronologically to illustrate their contributions to the creation of the chemical sciences during the last 21 centuries....

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... to express the full extent of my emotions and reasons for writing this book on the STORY OF THE ATOM AND THE SCIENCES, with special reference to the CHEMICAL SCIENCES. In one sentence, I can distill the essence of the purpose for this study by simply stating that it has been a labor of love that transcended the written word because sentiments and ideas belong in the rea...

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...CT ON THE ATOM AND ITS ENERGY 11 THE CLASSIC GREEK AND ROMAN PHILOSOPHERS 17 EMPEDOCLES (492-432 BC) Greek Philosopher 20 Proposed the four basic elements: earth, water, air and fire. DEMOCRITUS (470-380 BC) Greek Philosopher 22 The founder of the atomic theory of antiquity. CLAUDIUS PTOLEMY (100-170) Greek Astronomer 24 Proponent of the geocentric theory of our ...

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...schrecke, had it in his power to furnish the requisite Documents. As in some chemical mixture, that has stood long evaporating, but would not crystall... ...hors are her stuff: examine Language; what, if you except some few primitive elements (of natural sound), what is it all but Metaphors, recognized as ... ...ll fluid and florid, or now solid grown and colorless? If those same primitive elements are the osseous fixtures in the Flesh Garment, Language,—then are... ...mmering air, here one mass, there another, and cunningly cemented, while the elements boil beneath: nor is there any supernatural force to do it with;... ...tial) Egg; wherein as yet all is formless, powerless; yet by degrees organic elements and fibres shoot through the watery albumen; and out of vague Sen... ...s the annual Cattle fair. Here, assembling from all the four winds, came the elements of an unspeakable hurry burly. Nut brown maids and nut IDYLLIC... ...In our busy Europe, is there not an everlasting demand for Intellect, in the chemical, mechanical, political, religious, educational, commercial depar...

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... there would be no examples of people raising themselves above the scum they were born in and reaching high levels of society. Understanding of the elements of high culture, its systemic approach to organizing one’s life, can be practiced by virtually everybody. One just needs to want to elevate themselves and work towards that goal, which may involve getting better tr...

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.... . . . . . . . . . 177 28.6 Concealed carrying . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178 29 Explosives and chemical weapons basics 181 29.1 Common explosives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181 29.2 Lab safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...

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.... And as if all things conspired in favour of the gentle Rebecca, the very elements (although she was not inclined at first to acknowledge their actio... ...ocal and instrumental; in dancing, without the aid of a master; and in the elements of natural sciences. In the use of the globes both are proficients... ...Cor- pus College, Cambridge), can instruct in the Syriac language, and the elements of Constitutional law. But as she is only eigh- teen years of age,... ...an electrifying machine, a turning lathe, a theatre (in the wash-house), a chemical appa- ratus, and what he called a select library of all the works ...

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...n callous, and the heart of him is not, he can, within his range, direct the elements, the storm, the fog, the thunder, he can command all the meaner... ..., Undead for all these centuries, is full of strangeness of the geologic and chemical world. There are deep caverns and fissures that reach none Chapt... ...ause she, too, know not what it mean, what it might mean. Just as there are elements which rest, yet when in nature’s course they move on their way a...

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... be told—.” Here Camilla put her hand to her throat, and began to be quite chemical as to the formation of new combinations there. When this same Matt... ... some inches out of his chair. “Hear this!” he helplessly exclaimed to the elements. “Babies are to be nutcrackered dead, for people’s poor grandpapa’...