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Puffins.(News)
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Byline: By RHODRI CLARK Western Mail
You don't have to be a dedi-cated birdwatcher to find puffins fascinating. Indeed, it's possible that ornithologists, with their greater knowledge of birds than the average person, would choose other species as their favourites.
But the puffin is perhaps the cutest of all British birds to the layperson, guaranteed to generate the 'aaah' response.
It's partly down to that unique bill, of course. The colours might look pretty drab if our countryside and shores were ...
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Letter banks from the chemical elements.
Magazine article from: Word Ways
; ...failed to produce any words using the same letter banks: berkelium, beryllium, bohrium, dubnium, hafnium, holmium, joliotium...some possibilities for plugging the gaps. Lumber-like (berkelium) can be found on various websites; the surname Belluomini...
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Chemistry at periodic table's edge. (element 105, dubbed hahnium, is observed)
Magazine article from: Science News
; ...Calif.) Laboratory recently produced it by bombarding berkelium-249 with oxygen-18 ions, they created only 47 hahnium...properties in solution. The technique involves collecting the berkelium reaction products on a microscope over slip and adding nitric...
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A chemical glance at short-lived elements.
Magazine article from: Science News
; ...Society meeting in Washington, D.C. The researchers synthesize hahnium by firing oxygen ions into a target consisting of berkelium-249. The resulting isotope, hahnium-262, has a half-life of 35 seconds, allowing only a tantalizingly brief interval...
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Sci-triv game: have fun learning about science!
Magazine article from: Current Science, a Weekly Reader publication
; ...object A kookaburra has inertia. is a type of cuckoo bird. 20 POINTS The chemical A leech is formula for (A) an eel. berkelium is (B) a snake. (A) Be. (C) a worm. (B) Bi. (C) Bk. 30 POINTS What does A mule is the an ammeter offspring...
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The symbols of the chemical elements.
Magazine article from: Word Ways
; ...radium Ac actinium Th thorium 91-95 Pa protactinium U uranium Np neptunium Pu plutonium Am americium 96-100 Cm curium Bk berkelium Cf californium Es einsteinium Fm fermium 101-105 Md mendelevium No nobelium Lr lawrencium Unq unnilquadium Unp unnilpentium...
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A Chemist in the White House.(Review)
Magazine article from: Chemistry and Industry
; ...elements. He is now recognised as the co-discoverer of no less than ten of these elements: plutonium, americium, curium, berkelium, californium, einsteinium, fermium, mendelevium, nobelium and seaborgium. As a direct result of his discoveries, Seaborg...
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 "Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)")
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Kids show science smarts at chemistry challenge.(Neighbor)(Mount Prospect/Prospect Heights)
Newspaper article from: Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)
; ...minute final round, tearing through 30 questions before Clausen finally came out triumphant by correctly answering that Berkelium is the only one of five elements listed that was not named for a scientist. A number of UOP's executives welcomed the contestants...
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Take two Prozac and call us in November
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times
; ...rachmaninoff minsk broken cb soak catskill rental skip toot beside antler precaution machination eggshell wire illiterate berkelium dutton debenture handcuff panorama pensacola forthright chelate battlefront acquire palazzo reedbuck emit cyprus mit pellagra...
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Chemist honored on periodic table. (Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
; ...fine dusting of fallout over the Earth. It also led to the discovery of a series of heavier elements _ americum, curium, berkelium, californium, einsteinium, fermium, mendelevium, nobelium and now seaborgium. Seaborg shared the Nobel Prize in chemistry...
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Commentary: List of elements set to "I am a Very Model of a Modern Major General"
Transcript from: NPR All Things Considered
; ...titanium, tellurium, and cadmium, and calcium, chromium, and curium. There's sulfur, californium, and fermium, berkelium, and also mendelevium, einsteinium, nobelium, and argon, krypton, neon, radon, xenon, zinc, and rhodium, and chlorine...
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