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Accent The prominence or emphasis given to a syllable or word. In the word poetry, the accent (or…
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classification, in biology, the systematic categorization of organisms into a coherent scheme. The original purpose of biological classification, or systematics, was to organize…
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Most people are familiar with their state’s official flower and flag, but did you know that almost every state has an official fossil as well?
These state symbols are a representation of a territory…
(Encyclopedia) fur, hairy covering of an animal, especially the skins of animals that have thick, soft, close-growing hair next to the skin itself and coarser protective hair above it. The underhair…
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Typical X-ray composite spectrum (intensity as a function of frequency)
X ray, invisible, highly penetrating electromagnetic radiation of much shorter wavelength (higher…
