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Martha Jane Cannary, known as Calamity Jane (1852-1903), was a notorious American frontier woman in the days of the Wild West. As unconventional and wild as the territory she roamed, she has become a legend. The most likely date of Jane Ca...
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Calcareous ooze is the general term for layers of muddy, calcium carbonate (CaCO3) bearing soft rock sediment on the seafloor. Of all the distinct types of veneers covering the Earth's crust—be it soil, sediment, snow, or ice...
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In calcination, a substance is heated to a high temperature below its melting point to bring about thermal decomposition or a phase transition other than melting. Calcination often has the effect of making a substance friable. The process ...
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Calcium is the third element in Group 2 of the periodic table. The members of this group are commonly described as the alkaline earth elements. Calcium's atomic number is 20, its atomic mass is 40.08, and its chemical symbol is Ca. Calciu...
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Calcium carbonate (CaCO3) is one of the most common compounds on Earth, making up about 7% of Earth's crust. It occurs in a wide variety of mineral forms, including limestone, marble, travertine, and chalk. Calcium carbonate also occurs co...
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Calcium Hydroxide Overview Calcium hydroxide (KAL-see-um hye-DROK-side) is a soft, white odorless solid that occurs as granules or a powder. It has a slightly bitter, alkaline taste. Calcium hydroxide absorbs carbon dioxide readily from the...
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Calcium is the most abundant mineral in the human body, and is critical to good health. It is not only a component of bones and teeth, but is also essential for blood clotting and necessary for muscle and nerve functions. If the level of c...
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Calcium Oxide Overview Calcium oxide (KAL-see-um OK-side) is an odorless crystalline or powdery solid that, in a pure form, is white to off-gray. It often appears with a yellowish or brownish tint to the presence of impurities, especially i...
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Calcium Phosphate Overview The three forms of calcium phosphate (KAL-see-um FOSS-fate) all occur as tasteless, odorless, colorless to white crystalline or powdery solids. Dibasic calcium phosphate, CaHPO4, is also called calcium monohydroge...
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Calcium Silicate Overview The term calcium silicate (KAL-see-um SILL-i-kate) applies to a number of related compounds consisting of calcium, silicon, and oxygen, all of which tend to occur in a hydrated form. The most common of these forms ...
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Calcium Sulfate Overview Calcium sulfate (KAL-see-um SUL-fate) occurs in three forms: anhydrous calcium sulfate (CaSO4); the anhydrous form of calcium sulfate is available in two forms, known as insoluble anhydrite and soluble anhydrite; ca...
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Although the abacus, the first tool of calculation, has existed since ancient times, advanced calculating machines did not appear until the early 1600s. Scientists and mathematicians were determined to simplify complex astronomical and nav...
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Throughout human history man has invented devices to make repetitive tasks, such as mathematical calculation, easier. For much of history, this was difficult. The advent of methods, which progressed to machines, to help with this dilemma m...
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AP Calculus Course Outcome Summary Information Credits 1 Organization Hartford Union High School Mission/Description Mission Statement: Our mathematics program is designed to enable all students to function successfully in a number-r...
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If one quantity increases (or decreases) each time another quantity increases (or decreases), the two quantities are said to vary together. The most common form of this is direct variation in which the ratio of the two amounts is always th...
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SOURCE: “Post-Colonial Pox,” in Times Literary Supplement, No. 4870, August 2, 1996, p. 23. In the following review, Baker offers a positive assessment of The Calcutta Chromosome. The existence of “research luck” has been often rema...
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Like many screenwriters who came to Hollywood with a literary background, Calder Willingham clearly differentiates between the two forms in which he writes--novels and screenplays. He sees fiction as his "real work," his screenplays as wor...
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A caldera is a large, usually circular depression at the summit of a volcano. Most calderas are formed by subsidence or sinking of the central part of the volcano; a rare few are excavated by violent explosions. Craters and calderas are di...
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Calderoni, Mario(1879–1914) Mario Calderoni ranks next to his teacher Giovanni Vailati as an Italian "Peircean pragmatist." He was graduated in law from the University of Pisa in 1901, and later lectured on the theory o...
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Ben Caldwell, Harlem-born dramatist, artist, and, currently, essayist, was an active participant in the black arts movement of the 1960s, the most clearly defined period in black American letters since the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s. ...
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Caleb Bingham was one of the first American textbook writers of significance. His readers were perhaps the most widely adopted reading texts used in American schools during the first quarter of the nineteenth century. Issued in a multitude...
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Caleb Cushing served as U.S. attorney general from 1853 to 1857 in the administration of President Franklin Pierce. A distinguished public servant, Cushing was the first attorney general not to maintain a private law practice while serving...
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Calendars have always been based on the Sun, Earth, and Moon. Ancient people observed that the position of the Sun in the sky changed with the seasons. They also noticed that the stars seemed to change position in the night sky throughout ...
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