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The balls have a kind of force field, gravitating towards larger bodies (i.e., opponents or victims). The smaller the size, the stronger the force. This means it might be electromagnetic. If a Grapple Grounder takes a deep enough breath, or charges it long enough, the fire will come...
因纽特人世世代代居住在这样的屋子里，成为一道世界奇景。For thousands of years, humans, and plants and animals long before that, have been using frozen "sky water" to keep warm. which sort of doesn't make sense.几千年来，人类，动植物都使用雪来取暖，这毫无道理。Because snow is cool.因为雪...
So long as there's plenty of hydrogen fuel feeding this process, the core remains about the same size and temperature (around 15 million Kelvin), producing energy that radiates throughout the solar system, ultimately nurturing the evolution of life on a certain habitable planet called Earth. ...
Icosahedral quasicrystals (IQCs) are materials that exhibit long-range order but lack periodicity in any direction. Although IQCs were the first reported quasicrystals1, they have been experimentally observed only in metallic alloys2, not in other materials. By contrast, quasicrystals with other symme...
This approximation works better to justifiably construct the single-electron potential for crystals containing a high concentration of significantly delocalized electrons with long-range interactions. In addition, there are two physically different first principles SCF approaches to the single-electron ...
The first TEM visualization confirmed the rod-like shape of TMV and indicated dimensions of ‘around 300 respective 150 × 15 mµ’ [i.e., nm] of the ‘molecules of the TM-virus’ [73]. Since then, tobamoviruses have been among the viral objects most intensely used for EM analyses,...
You might be familiar with this one if you've made candy. In factories, there are machines that do it automatically to take out the possibility of error. Without tempering, candy wouldn't be shiny and snappy, plus it wouldn't last as long. Basically, it involves getting the crystals of...
Organizations like seed banks and germplasm centers that store seeds long term often will desiccate seeds to around 8% humidity to extend storage, but this isn’t usually needed for home gardeners. You don’t have to replicate conditions at the Global Seed Vault to have seed saving and ...
Early cultures used meteorites to craft weapons and jewelry long before anyone knew how to extract iron from ore.