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free·base
/ ˈfrēˌbās/
(also freebase cocaine)
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n.
cocaine that has been converted from its salt to its base form by heating with ether or boiling with sodium bicarbonate, taken by inhaling the fumes or smoking the residue.
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v. [tr.]
prepare or take (cocaine) in such a way.
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The World Made New: Frederick Soddy, Science, Politics and the Environment.
Magazine article from: Chemistry and Industry; 8/4/1997; ; 700+ words
; Frederick Soddy was a key figure in the development of nuclear physics, with his discovery...Linda Metricks' important but frustrating book is the hypothesis that Frederick Soddy has not been accorded the historical respect he deserves. Certainly...
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A living, breathing economy
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune; 4/15/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...wrote during the Great Depression. Frederick Soddy, born in 1877, was a 1921 Nobel...books written from 1921 to 1934, Soddy carried on a campaign for a radical...of nothing or recycle it forever. Soddy criticized the belief of the economy...
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Corrigenda.(The Reader Replies)(Correction Notice)
Magazine article from: American Scholar; 3/22/2004; 385 words
; ...plants. On page 77, a sentence beginning "But to Frederick Soddy, radioactivity was an illusion ..." should have read, "But to Frederick Soddy, stability was an illusion...." In the same...
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The discovery of radioactivity and its aftermath.
Magazine article from: Canadian Chemical News; 9/1/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...substances Marie Curie Discovery of radium and 1911 polonium Frederick Soddy Chemistry of radioactive 1921 substances and origin...alpha and beta radiation (1899); the Rutherford/Soddy disintegration theory (1902); the discovery of isotopes...
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Rifle that misfired; Taking aim: Two British soldiers, in an early colour image, use their bolt-action weapons during World War I.
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England); 9/11/2008; 700+ words
; ...embryonic stem cells'. Eastbourne's first winner was Frederick Soddy (1877-1956), who received the 1921 Nobel Prize...for his formulation of the theory of isotopes. Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins (1861-1947) was awarded the Nobel...
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Anniversaries
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 9/2/1997; 495 words
; ...and composer, 1819; Giovanni Verga, novelist and playwright, 1840; Friedrich Wilhelm Ostwald, chemist, 1853; Frederick Soddy, chemist and physicist, 1877; Sir Robert Bruce Lockhart, diplomat and author, 1887; Joseph Roth, author, 1894...
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L.E.T.S. help ourselves
Newspaper article from: The Arab American News; 1/3/1997; 700+ words
; ...William Cobbett, Abraham Lincoln, Silvio Gessel, John Maynard Keynes, Karl Marx, John Kenneth Galbraith, Professor Frederick Soddy, Stephen Leacock, etc., the full list is very long indeed. Leacock, a professional humorist and an economist...
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Obituary: Helen Wallis
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 2/14/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...through membership of the Institute of British Geographers and she was for many years an invaluable member of the Frederick Soddy Trust. But it was on her retirement that the friendships that she had struck up became manifest. She was almost...
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Podium: A new model for the world economy
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 2/12/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...system supporting a balanced, diverse and just economy. There were many notable figures, such as the Nobel Laureate Frederick Soddy, and the eminent American economist Irving Fisher, who made proposals for reforming the financial system. However...
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Join varsity's success story, students told
Newspaper article from: Press and Journal, The Aberdeen (UK); 11/27/2006; ; 693 words
; ...The university has been able to count Nobel prize winners and many medal winners among its staff over the years. Frederick Soddy (chemistry), Sir George Paget (physics) and J.J.R. McLeod (medicine) were all awarded Nobel prizes - John...
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Frederick Soddy
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Frederick Soddy The English chemist Frederick Soddy (1877-1956) shared in the discoveries of atomic disintegration...decay and introduced the term "isotope" to nuclear science. Frederick Soddy was born at Eastbourne, Sussex, on Sept. 2, 1877...
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Soddy, Frederick
Book article from: Chemistry: Foundations and Applications
Soddy, Frederick ENGLISH RADIOCHEMIST 1877 – 1956 Frederick Soddy, the youngest of seven...ed. (1986). Frederick Soddy (1877 – 1956...Alexander S. (1956). "Frederick Soddy 1877 – 1956...
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Giesel, Friedrich Oskar
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...research, was the 1903 verification by William Ramsay and Frederick Soddy of the production of helium from radium. Giesel was...by analogy with the 1902 analysis of Rutherford and Soddy, that an intermediate substance was the direct cause...
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Hahn, Otto
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...century he became a pioneer in radiochemistry, along with Frederick Soddy, Bertram Boltwood, and Kasimir Fajans. His long and...an interest in radioactivity which was furthered by Soddy, who had first worked with Rutherford and then spent...
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radioactive elements
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Earth
...discovered by Roentgen. Rutherford, in collaboration with Frederick Soddy, studied the radioactivity of thorium. This led them...different from that of natural lead. These observations led Soddy to suggest that a position occupied by a particular...
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