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• Volcanoes
  Natural Disasters
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  Geology
  Global Warming
  Early Climate
   
  

  Volcano

  A volcano is an opening (or rupture) in the Earth's surface or crust, which allows hot, molten rock, ash, and gases to escape from deep below the surface. Volcanic activity involving the extrusion of ... > more
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  Detectors
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  Patent

  A patent is a set of exclusive rights granted by a state to a person for a fixed period of time in exchange for the regulated, public disclosure of certain details of a device, method, process or ... > more
• Electricity
  Energy Technology
  Solar Energy
  Batteries
  Consumer Electronics
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  Three-phase electric power

  Three-phase is a common method of electric power transmission. It is a type of polyphase system used to power motors and many other devices. Three phase has properties that make it very desirable in ... > more
• Graphene
  Sports Science
  Organic Chemistry
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  Inorganic Chemistry
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  Fullerene

  The fullerenes, discovered in 1985 by researchers at Rice University, are a family of carbon allotropes named after Buckminster Fuller. They are molecules composed entirely of carbon, in the form of ... > more
• Hurricanes and Cyclones
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  Levee failures in Greater New Orleans, 2005

  In 2005, as a result of Hurricane Katrina, there were extensive failures of the levees and flood walls protecting New Orleans, Louisiana and surrounding communities. There were also extensive ... > more
• Acid Rain
  Pollution
  Air Pollution
  Organic Chemistry
  Biochemistry
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  Acid

  An acid (often represented by the generic formula HA) is traditionally considered any chemical compound that, when dissolved in water, gives a solution with a pH of less than 7.0. That approximates ... > more
• Geology
  Earthquakes
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  Geologic fault

  Geologic faults or simply faults are planar rock fractures which show evidence of relative movement. Large faults within the Earth's crust are the result of shear motion and active fault zones are ... > more
• Nature of Water
  Sports Science
  Thermodynamics
  Inorganic Chemistry
  Chemistry
  Energy Policy
   
  

  Volume

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

  A parachute is usually a soft fabric device used to slow the motion of an object through an atmosphere by creating drag. Parachutes are generally used to slow the descent of a person or object to ... > more
• Robotics
  Robotics Research
  Artificial Intelligence
  Engineering
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  Industrial robot

  An industrial robot is an automatically controlled, reprogrammable, multipurpose manipulator programmable in three or more axes. The field of industrial robotics may be more practically defined as ... > more

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