resurrection plant
resurrection plant name for several plants, usually of arid regions, that may apparently be brought back to life after they are dead. In reality they have hygroscopic qualities which cause them to curl up when dry and to unfold when moist. They are frequently sold in the dried condition as a novelty. The most common are the rose of Jericho and the bird's-nest moss, a club moss ( Selaginella lepidophylla ), native to Mexico and Texas, which has a rosette of flattened branches and is capable of growing if it has not been dry too long. It is also sold in Mexican markets for use as a diuretic. These plants are classified in the division Lycopodiophyta (club mosses).
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Research from Leiden University provides new data about condensed matter.
Newspaper article from: Physics Week; 5/12/2009; 691 words
; "Hendrik Antoon Lorentz (1853-1928) was appointed in...theory of relativity. Later on, Lorentz played a much admired role in the...Journal of Physics - Condensed Matter (Hendrik Antoon Lorentz: his role in physics and society...
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MIT professors win awards for physics achievements
News Wire article from: University Wire; 9/16/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...theoretical physics. Wilczek won the Lorentz Medal for his work in particle...expansion of the early universe. The Lorentz Medal in physics is awarded every...Physics. The award is in honor of Hendrik Antoon Lorentz who won the Nobel Prize in 1902...
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Traveling at warp speed. (Ping-Kang Hsiung's system for simulating images of objects traveling at near light speed)
Magazine article from: Popular Science; 5/1/1990; ; 700+ words
; ...mathematical equation called the Lorentz transformation, devised by the Dutch physicist Hendrik Antoon Lorentz in the late 1800s. Until 1959...object would show the predicted Lorentz contraction. But that year...
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THE INVISIBLE CENTURYBOOKS / Nonfiction
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune; 8/18/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...approach light speed, noting that Einstein (versus Hendrik Antoon Lorentz, who discovered the same formulas but explained them...change that observers would experience,'' whereas Lorentz described ''physical changes that bodies approaching...
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Anniversaries
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 7/18/1994; 615 words
; ...Pauline Viardot-Garcia, mezzo- soprano and composer, 1821; Dr William Gilbert Grace, cricketer, 1848; Hendrik Antoon Lorentz, Dutch physicist, 1853; Philip Snowden, first Viscount Snowden, statesman, 1864; Laurence Housman, playwright...
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Hendrik Antoon Lorentz
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Hendrik Antoon Lorentz The work of the Dutch physicist Hendrik Antoon Lorentz (1853-1928) on electromagnetic...special theory of relativity. Hendrik Antoon Lorentz, the son of Gerrit Frederik Lorentz...
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Lorentz, Hendrik Antoon
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
Lorentz, Hendrik Antoon ( b . Arnhem, Netherlands, 18 July 1853; d . Haarlem, Netherlands, 4 February 1928) theoretical physics. Lorentz, father, Gerrit Frederik Lorentz, owned a nursery near Arnhem. His mother, the former...
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Lorentz–Fitzgerald contraction
Book article from: A Dictionary of Astronomy
Lorentz–Fitzgerald contraction The contraction in length of a moving...motion. The effect was proposed independently by the Dutch physicist Hendrik Antoon Lorentz (1853–1928) in 1895 and the Irish physicist George Francis...
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Lorentz transformation
Book article from: A Dictionary of Astronomy
Lorentz transformation A set of equations relating the time and position of...first. The equations are named after the Dutch theoretical physicist Hendrik Antoon Lorentz (1853–1928), who initially derived them. They were...
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Minkowski, Hermann
Book article from: A Dictionary of Astronomy
...in modern Lithuania. He was the first to see that the principle of relativity set out by the Dutch physicist Hendrik Antoon Lorentz (1853–1928) and A. Einstein implied that space and time were not separate entities, but components...
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