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cold fusion
cold fusion or low-temperature fusion, nuclear fusion of deuterium, an isotope of hydrogen , at or relatively near room temperature. Fusion, the reaction involved in the release of the destructive energy of a hydrogen bomb , requires extremely high temperatures, and investigations of fusion a...
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Nahum
Nahum , 7th of the books of the Minor Prophets of the Bible. It contains oracles of doom against Nineveh, capital of the Assyrian Empire, delivered by one Nahum of Elkosh, who is otherwise unknown. The book can be divided into two sections: an acrostic announcing the coming of divine vengeance on Ni...
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Smithson Tennant
Smithson Tennant 1761-1815, English chemist. In 1796 he proved, by burning a diamond, that the diamond consists solely of carbon. In 1804 he announced his discovery of osmium and iridium.
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Shawnee Prophet
Shawnee Prophet 1775?-1837?, Native North American of the Shawnee tribe; brother of Tecumseh . His Native American name was Tenskwautawa. He announced himself as a prophet bearing a revelation from the Native American master of life. The message urged the renunciation of the acquired ways of the w...
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Yangon
Yangon , formerly Rangoon , city (1983 pop. 2,458,712), capital of Myanmar and of Yangon div., S central Myanmar, on the Yangon River (a mouth of the Ayeyarwady) near its entrance into the Gulf of Martaban. The largest city in Myanmar, Yangon is the transportation hub of the country and its comme...
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Malcolm X
Malcolm X,
born Malcolm Little; later adopted the name El‐Hajj Malik El‐Shabazz (1925–1965),
African American
leader.As a thinker, activist, and especially an icon, Malcolm X was perhaps the most important black nationalist figure in postȁ...
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Ted Turner
Ted Turner (Robert Edward Turner 3d), 1938-, American television network executive, b. Cincinnati. After inheriting his father's billboard company, he founded (1976) a television station, WTBS, and built it into the Turner Broadcasting System (TBS). He pioneered "superstation" broadcasting, in ...
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nuclear disarmament
nuclear disarmament the reduction and limitation of the various nuclear weapons in the military forces of the world's nations. The atomic bombs dropped (1945) on Japan by the United States in World War II demonstrated the overwhelming destructive potential of nuclear weapons and the threat to h...
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Jan Masaryk
Jan Masaryk , 1886-1948, Czechoslovak diplomat, son of Thomas G. Masaryk. He was (1925-38) Czechoslovak minister to Great Britain, and in London he became (1940) foreign minister in the Czechoslovak government in exile headed by Eduard Beneš after the German occupation of Czechoslovakia. Duri...
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balance of payments
balance of payments balance between all payments out of a country within a given period and all payments into the country, an outgrowth of the mercantilist theory of balance of trade . Balance of payments includes all payments between a country and its trading partners and is made up of the balanc...
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