caesium
caesium (symbol Cs) Rare silvery-white metallic element in group I of the
periodic table; the most alkaline and electropositive element. Discovered in 1860 by German chemist Robert
Bunsen and German physicist Gustav
Kirchhoff, caesium is ductile and used commercially in
photoelectric cells. The isotope Cs
137 is used in cancer treatments. The decay rate of its most common isotope Cs
133 is the standard for measuring time. Properties: at.no. 55; r.a.m. 132.9055; r.d. 1.87; m.p. 28.4°C (83.1°F); b.p. 678°C (1252.4°F). See also
alkali metals;
atomic clock
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Philip Melanchthon (1497-1560) and the Commentary
Magazine article from: Trinity Journal; 4/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...Patrick Graham, eds. Philip Melanchthon (1497-- 1560) and...Praeceptor Germaniae), Philip Melanchthon. The partnership Melanchthon...could be traced to Melanchthon's ill-fated attempt...did not bring Master Philip release from the...
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Philip Melanchthon and the English Reformation.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Church History; 6/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; Philip Melanchthon and the English Reformation...the Lutheran theologian Philip Melanchthon (1497-1560) to the...evangelical hopes in ruins and Melanchthon seething with criticism...beyond redemption. Now "Philip wished only that God may...
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Philip Melanchthon and the English Reformation
Magazine article from: Anglican and Episcopal History; 6/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; Philip Melanchthon and the English Reformation. St...99.95.) John Schofield's Philip Melanchthon and the English Reformation is a...Calvin, and Peter Martyr, so when Philip Melanchthon, now the doyen of European Lutheran...
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Human Freedom, Christian Righteousness: Philip Melanchthon's Exegetical Dispute with Erasmus of Rotterdam
Magazine article from: Trinity Journal; 4/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...Christian Righteousness: Philip Melanchthon's Exegetical Dispute with...Duke doctoral dissertation, Philip Melanchthon's Annotationes in Johannem...his study Law and Gospel: Philip Melanchthon's Debate with John Agricola...
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Human Freedom, Christian Righteousness: Philip Melanchthon's Exegetical Dispute with Erasmus of Rotterdam. (Reviews).(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly; 9/22/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...Freedom, Christian Righteousness: Philip Melanchthon's Exegetical Dispute with Erasmus...s focus falls immediately on Melanchthon and Erasmus, but the study extends...some doing. Wengert succeeds. Melanchthon is often said to have had tilted...
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Law and Gospel: Philip Melanchthon's Debate with John Agricola of Eisleben over Poenitentia
Magazine article from: Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society; 6/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; Law and Gospel: Philip Melanchthon's Debate with John Agricola of...world's leading contemporary Melanchthon scholars, has published a fascinating...issue of antinomianism between Melanchthon and John Agricola of Eisleben...
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The Transformation of Natural Philosophy. The Case of Philip Melanchthon.(Review)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: The Review of Metaphysics; 9/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...Transformation of Natural Philosophy. The Case of Philip Melanchthon. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995...the natural philosophy of the Lutheran humanist Philip Melanchthon provides some insight into what may be one of the...
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Philip Melanchthon: Orations on Philosophy and Education.
Magazine article from: Church History; 6/1/2000; ; 651 words
; Philip Melanchthon: Orations on Philosophy and Education...them academic orations, that show Melanchthon in his role as Praeceptor Germaniae...errors (for example, that Luther and Melanchthon turned toward magisterial reformation...
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Philip Melanchthon and the English Reformation.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 11/1/2006; 430 words
; 0754655679 Philip Melanchthon and the English Reformation. Schofield, John. Ashgate Publishing...England, but during the process realized the unique role played by Melanchthon (1497-1560) in the Reformation first in Germany, then in England...
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The Transformation of Natural Philosophy: The Case of Philip Melanchton.
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly; 3/22/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...which was first formulated by Philip Melanchthon in his lectures and textbooks...spread over Protestant Europe when Melanchthon's writings began to be copied...taught outside Wittenberg. When Melanchthon came to the University of Wittenberg...
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Philip Melanchthon
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Philip Melanchthon , 1497-1560, German scholar and...Schwarzerd [Ger.,=black earth; "melanchthon" is the Greek rendering of "black...became intimate friends and associates. Melanchthon's influence on the Lutheran movement...
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Philip of Hesse
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Holy Roman Emperor Charles V. Philip founded the first Protestant university...reluctantly sanctioned by Luther and Philip Melanchthon , led him to make peace with Charles...had won Maurice of Saxony from Philip's camp, the emperor crushed...
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Christianity, Lutheran, Issues in Science and Religion
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Science and Religion
...Luther's close collaborator Philip Melanchthon (1497 – 1560), who...of Natural Philosophy (1549) Melanchthon taught that the entire physical...God's providential order. Melanchthon also wrote a highly influential...
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Wittenberg
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Reformation when Martin Luther and Philip Melanchthon taught there. In 1517, Luther...15th cent.), where Luther and Melanchthon are buried; the town church...preached; the houses where Luther, Melanchthon, and Lucas Cranach, the elder...
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Huldreich Zwingli
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...the nature of the Eucharist (see Lord's Supper ). Philip of Hesse endeavored to reconcile these differences...Zwingli and Johannes Oecolampadius and Luther and Philip Melanchthon were present, but no agreement was reached. Although...
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