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  Air conditioning

  An air conditioner (AC or air-con) is an appliance or mechanism designed to extract heat from an area using a refrigeration cycle. In construction, a complete system of heating, ventilation and air ... > more
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  Antikythera mechanism

  The Antikythera mechanism is an ancient mechanical analog computer (as opposed to digital computer) designed to calculate astronomical positions. It was discovered in the Antikythera wreck off the ... > more
• Air Quality
  Fossil Fuels
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  Combustion

  Combustion or burning is a complex sequence of chemical reactions between a fuel and an oxidant accompanied by the production of heat or both heat and light in the form of either a glow or flames. ... > more
• Detectors
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  Radar

  RADAR is a system used to detect, range, and map objects such as aircraft, ships, and rain. Powerful radio waves are transmitted, and a receiver listens for any echoes. By analysing the reflected ... > more
• Nature of Water
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  Volume

  Volume, also called capacity, is a quantification of how much space an object occupies. The international unit for volume is the cubic ... > more
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  Submarine

  A submarine is a specialized watercraft that can operate underwater. Most major navies use submarines. Submarines are also used for marine and freshwater science and for work at depths too great for ... > more
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  Navigation

  There are several traditions of navigation. In the pre-modern history of human migration and discovery of new lands by navigating the oceans, a few peoples have excelled as sea-faring ... > more
• Biochemistry
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  Protein

  Proteins are large organic compounds made of amino acids arranged in a linear chain and joined together between the carboxyl atom of one amino acid and the amine nitrogen of another. This bond is ... > more
• Earthquakes
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  Richter magnitude scale

  The Richter magnitude test scale (or more correctly local magnitude ML scale) assigns a single number to quantify the size of an earthquake. It is a base-10 logarithmic scale obtained by calculating ... > more
• Aviation
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  Airbus A380

  The Airbus A380 is a double-deck, four-engined airliner manufactured by EADS (Airbus S.A.S.) It first flew on April 27, 2005 from Toulouse in France. Commercial flights are scheduled to begin in 2007 ... > more

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