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Briefing on the situation in Afghanistan.(military operations and national security)
Ploughshares Monitor
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December 22, 2006|
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A version of this article was presented to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development in Ottawa on November 8.
Introduction: Debating Afghanistan
Canadians are deeply ambivalent about Canada's role in Afghanistan. It is appropriate for Canadians to submit the decisions and political priorities that send soldiers abroad and into harm's way to serious and ongoing questioning. It is also appropriate for criticism to extend to the military leadership that commands and directs those military operations broad, but we ...
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Creating, cooling, trapping francium atoms. (radioactive element francium trapped in glass bulb)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Science News
; At number 87 in the periodic table, francium is the least stable of the first 103...in trace amounts in uranium deposits, francium atoms decay rapidly into lighter elements...first time, slowed down and captured francium atoms in a glass bulb, holding them...
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Study data from University of Siena provide new insights into physics.
Newspaper article from: Physics Week
; ...measurement of the diffusion coefficients of francium and rubidium ions implanted in a yttrium...directly take record of the diffusion time. Francium isotopes are produced via fusion-evaporation...accelerator facility in Legnaro, Italy. Francium is ionized at the gold-vacuum interface...
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I'm melting!(CHART-READING SKILLS)(chemical elements)
Magazine article from: Science World
; ...nonmetal with the lowest melting point. 3. Francium is the element with the melting point...Nitrogen -210 Chlorine -101 Mercury -39 Francium 27 Rubidium 39 Sulfur 113 Silver 962...101 Nonmetal Mercury Hg -39 Metal Francium Fr 27 Metal Rubidium Rb 39 Metal Sulfur...
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Elementary transadditions.
Magazine article from: Word Ways
; ...plurals. Other element names were not so easy. Let's look at FRANCIUM for example. There is no straightforward transposition, so...Eupatorium W2 (5) Fermium flummeries flummeries Fluorine flouncier Francium microfauna microfauna Gadolinium modularizing OED modularizing...
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MIT prank eyed in Charles injuries.(News)
Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald
; ...the water. One of the crew put it in a trash can, where it soon smoked, caught fire then exploded. Sodium, potassium and francium, in their pure forms, combust when they react with water. A male crew member was burned in the face, arms and legs while...
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A Devotion to Their Science: Pioneer Women of Radioactivity.
Magazine article from: Canadian Chemical News
; ...and also mentions several representatives of the second generation such as Marguerite Perey (1909-1975), who discovered francium in 1939. Although no formal archives exist for the women whose lives are discussed except for the better known Marie Curie...
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Periodic puzzler.(PERIODIC TABLE)(Brief article)
Magazine article from: Science World
; ...tellurium and the noble gas xenon. 8. This glittery element's symbol is Au. 9. This alkali metal has 76 fewer electrons than francium. 10. This element's atoraic number is 77. 11. This alkaline earth metal has eight more protons than magnesium. 12...
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More elementary improvements.
Magazine article from: Word Ways
; ...Fiji) ALUMINUM--ALUMINIUM BERKELIUM--BUKLERIMEN (Norway) CHROMIUM--CHROMICUM EUROPIUM--CURIPEUMO (Chile) FRANCIUM--INFRACTUM (Chambers) GADOLINIUM-MOUDIENGILA (CongoR) GERMANIUM-MEIORGANUM (nz) HOLMIUM--OUMMILHA (Tunisia...
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Analysis: Periodic table of elements
Transcript from: NPR Talk of the Nation Science Friday
; ...bismuth, bromine, lithium, beryllium and barium. There's holmium and helium and hafnium and erbium and phosphorous and francium and fluorine and terbium and manganese and mercury, molybdenum, magnesium, dysprosium and scandium and curium and cesium...
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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
; ...bromine, lithium, beryllium and barium. There's holmium, and helium, and hafnium, and erbium, and phosphorous, and francium, and fluorine, and terbium, and manganese, and mercury, aluminum, magnesium, dysprosium, and scandium, and selenium...
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