 "Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)")
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ALASKA HIGHWAYS; At every turn, an immense wilderness too big for eyes to hold.(TRAVEL)
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Alaska, first impression: High mountains, range on range, as finely chiseled, as blazingly white as the high Himalayas, and just as foreign.
Glaciers choke the valleys, so many they go unnamed on our maps: huge creeping creatures of ice, with crevasses slashed deep into their hides, like sky-blue stretchmarks on tight white skin.
Nothing on earth looks so clean. Or so vast. Or so empty. No wonder every other place is "outside" to Alaskans. This state is a subcontinent. This is its own world.
Before seeing Alaska last June, I had traveled in all ...
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Name that element! Phew, this element stinks! Known for its sickening smell, it can chew through your clothes and eat away at the environment. Can you name that element? Grab a periodic table (flip the page) and follow these eight clues. Then test your "element IQ.".(Our Popular Mystery Returns!)
Magazine article from: Science World
; ...this nonmetal element is a lemon...with other elements. Example...the mystery element forms the...the element carbon to form the...neighbor on the periodic table. GAME OVER...THE PERIODIC TABLE [ILLUSTRATION...Earth's elements, substances...known natural ...
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Name that element! Which element on the periodic table is a nightmare for bugs, helps keep your refrigerator cold, and protects your computer's hard drive? Follow these eight clues to find out. Then turn the page to test your chemistry IQ.(PHYSICAL: CHEMISTRY)
Magazine article from: Science World
; ...atom of an element. The atom...The Periodic Table The periodic table is a...Earth's elements, substances...named chemical elements. Elements are arranged...known natural element on Earth...listed on the periodic table...
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The element tin flouts carbon's chemistry rules: heavy metals don't always behave like organic neighbor.(Molecules)
Magazine article from: Science News
; Just because carbon jumps off a bridge...applied to other elements. Because tin resides...same column of the periodic table of chemical elements as carbon, it was...effectively for heavier elements." Tin, element 50, is the fourth...
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 "The Economist (US)")
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The good element guide. (satire on Mendeleyev's periodic table of elements)
Magazine article from: The Economist (US)
; WHEN the periodic table of the elements...implications, not even the elements. The past decade...arrow down] of the periodic table, with their...commonest of the elements used to be a baddie...hydrogen and less carbon in them than old...Rarely has an element lost ...
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Name that element! Which element on the periodic table turns a white car brown, keeps notes stuck on the refrigerator door, and holds up the world's skycrappers? Follow these eight clues to find out. Then turn the page to test your chemistry IQ.(OUR POPULAR MYSTERY SERIES RETURNS!)
Magazine article from: Science World
; ...nucleus, or center. Every element contains a different number...found in a single atom of an element. The atom's mass is in...following questions about elements and the periodic table. 1. Name that element! 2. The mystery element...
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Two new elements may join the periodic table.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
; ...encounter these new elements in your everyday...the historic table even as the...you." The elements, created in...atomic numbers. Element 113 is being...retrofitting the periodic tables that hang on...it lists each element by atomic number...artificially create elements ...
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 "San Jose Mercury News (San Jose, CA)")
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Two new elements may join the periodic table.
Newspaper article from: San Jose Mercury News (San Jose, CA)
; ...encounter these new elements in your everyday...the historic table even as the...you." The elements, created in...atomic numbers. Element 113 is being...retrofitting the periodic tables that hang on...it lists each element by atomic number...artificially create elements ...
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SETTING THE TABLE.(Periodic Table of the Elements)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Odyssey
; ...look at the Periodic Table of the Elements, do you wonder...exactly, is an element? We all know...gold, and carbon, but how...walk on an element that made...connection to the elements? In the November...ll take an element-al look...
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Portraits in carbon: forget oxygen--carbon may be the most important element on the planet.(Cover story)
Magazine article from: World Watch
; ...in talking about carbon: It's the sixth element in the periodic table, and normally has...This form, called carbon 12, accounts for...and are as hard as elements come); and amorphous...but is the only element capable of forming...
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Carbon: The Element of Surprise; Nature's Most Versatile Atom
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; ...few chemical elements known to the...and soot. But carbon, element No. 6 in the Periodic Table, is much more...trades among the elements. Need something...than all other elements combined. Yet this element accounts for...
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