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- Accidental release source terms: The mathematical equations that estimate the rate at which accidental releases of air pollutants into the atmosphere may occur at industrial facilities. [e]
- Acid rain: Deposition of acidified rain, snow, sleet, hail, gases and particles, and acidified fog and cloud water, due to nitric or sulfuric acid pollution. [e]
- Active attack: An attack on a communications system in which the attacker creates, alters, replaces, re-routes or blocks messages; this contrasts with a passive attack in which he only reads them. [e]
- Adams-Onís Treaty: A 1819 treaty between Spain and the United States which ceded the Spanish territory of Florida to the US and settled the boundary between the United States and the Spanish territory of Mexico. [e]
- Air pollutant concentrations: Methods for conversion of air pollutant concentrations. [e]
- Air pollution dispersion modeling: Describes the basic mathematical simulation (i.e., modeling) of how buoyant air pollutants disperse in the atmosphere. [e]
- Air pollution dispersion terminology: Describes and explains the words and technical terms that have a special meaning to workers in the field of air pollution dispersion modeling. [e]
- Alcmaeon of Croton: A Greek natural philosopher, living c. 500 BCE, interested in particular in medicine and physiology, credited by scholars as the first person to recognize the brain as the seat of intelligence and mind, whose ideas about the causes of disease prompted or anticipated those of Hippocrates. [e]
- Alice and Bob: Traditional names for A and B, the two players, in discussion of cryptography or coding theory. [e]
- American Institute of Chemical Engineers: A professional organization in the United States for chemical engineers. [e]
- Amine gas treating: A process using aqueous solutions of amines to remove hydrogen sulphide (H2S) and carbon dioxide (CO2) from gases [e]
- Ammonia production: The processes for the manufacture of hydrogen (H2) and ammonia (NH3). [e]
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- Ancient Celtic music: The music and instruments of the ancient Celts until late Antiquity. [e]
- Andrew Carnegie: 1835-1919, Scottish-American steel maker, philanthropist and peace activist [e]
- Anti-Saloon League: The leading American Prohibitionist organization. [e]
- Anycasting: A technique for increasing load distribution and fault tolerance in networks with multiple copies of a read-only server function, but with the same unicast address. [e]
- Arthur J. Altmeyer: A key figure in the design and implementation of the U. S. Social Security system for the first 40 years of the program. [e]
- ASIMO: A Japanese humanoid robot created by Honda. [e]
- Augustin-Louis Cauchy: (1789 – 1857) prominent French mathematician, one of the pioneers of rigor in mathematics and complex analysis. [e]
- Azole: five-membered rings with two heteroatoms, at least one of which is a nitrogen atom. [e]
- Bacteriophage: A virus that infects bacteria; often called a phage. [e]
- Bar (unit): A unit of pressure measurement (symbol: bar) defined as 100,000 Pascals. [e]
- Barbara McClintock: (1902 – 1992) - American cytogeneticist who won a Nobel Prize in 1983 for the discovery of genetic transposition. [e]
- Barnardius zonarius: A parrot native to all mainland Australian states. [e]
- Benjamin Franklin: 1706-1790, American statesman and scientist, based in Philadelphia. [e]
- Biology: The science of life — of complex, self-organizing, information-processing systems living in the past, present or future. [e]
- Block cipher: A symmetric cipher that operates on fixed-size blocks of plaintext, giving a block of ciphertext for each [e]
- Boiling point: The temperature at which the vapor pressure of the liquid equals the external environmental pressure surrounding the liquid and the liquid initiates boiling. [e]
- Brute force attack: An attempt to break a cipher by trying all possible keys; long enough keys make this impractical. [e]
- Butler: Manages all affairs of a household and servicing of principals and guests, providing the service themselves and/or hiring and supervising outside contractors, vendors, housekeeping staff, chef, chauffeur, valet, or personal assistant or secretary. [e]
- Catalytic reforming: A catalytic chemical process that converts petroleum naphthas into high-octane gasoline components. [e]
- Caterpillar Club: An informal association whose members have successfully used a parachute to bail out of a disabled aircraft. [e]
- Charles A. Beard: (1874–1948) one of the most influential American historians of the early 20th century; leader of the "Progressive School" of historiography. [e]
- Chemical engineering: a branch of engineering that uses chemistry, biology, physics, and math to solve problems involving fuel, drugs, food, and many other products [e]
- Chemistry: The science of matter, or of the electrical or electrostatical interactions of matter. [e]
- Chiropractic: A complementary, alternative health-care profession that aims to heal using manual therapies on the spine and extremities. [e]
- CIO: Please do not use this term in your topic list, because there is no single article for it. Please substitute a more precise term. See CIO (disambiguation) for a list of available, more precise, topics. Please add a new usage if needed.
- Civil society: The space for social activity outside the market, state and household; the arena of uncoerced collective action around shared interests, purposes and values. [e]
- Coal: a combustible, black rock formed after millions of years of heat and pressure were applied to the decayed remains of plants and organic matter in what were then swamps. [e]
- Competition policy: Legislation which regulates business practices that restrict competition, and limits the ability of firms to combine in such a way as to enable them to restrict competition. [e]
- Complex number: Numbers of the form a+bi, where a and b are real numbers and i denotes a number satisfying . [e]
- Compressibility factor (gases): A thermodynamic property for modifying the ideal gas law to account for behavior of real gases. [e]
- Contraception (medical methods): forms of pregnancy prevention that include barrier contraceptives (condoms, cervical caps, etc.), birth control pills or patches (i.e, hormonal contraceptives), and IUD's (intrauterine devices) [e]
- Conventional coal-fired power plant: power plant that burns coal in a steam generator to produce high pressure steam, which goes to steam turbines that generate electricity. [e]
- Countable set: A set with as many elements as there are natural numbers, or less. [e]
- Covariance: A statistical parameter that indicates whether two random variables show a related linear trend. [e]
- Cryptanalysis: The sub-field of cryptology which deals with breaking into existing codes and ciphers. [e]
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- James Clerk Maxwell: Add brief definition or description
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- Nathanael Greene: Add brief definition or description
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- NMR spectroscopy: Add brief definition or description
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- Schröder-Bernstein property: Add brief definition or description
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- Social capital: Add brief definition or description
- Specific heat ratio: Add brief definition or description
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- Terrorism: Add brief definition or description
- The Social Capital Foundation: Add brief definition or description
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- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency: Add brief definition or description
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