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Joshua Kreitzer <gromit82@hotmail.com>: Jul 29 05:17PM -0700

On Thursday, July 28, 2022 at 11:47:13 PM UTC-5, Mark Brader wrote:
 
> confirmed as discovered or synthesized, there """are""" two
> letters of the alphabet that don't appear in any element symbols
> in the periodic table. Name *both*.
 
J and W

> 5. John Macleod of Canada won the Nobel prize for the discovery
> of what?
 
insulin
 
> conflicting information. But which British theoretical physicist
> and cosmologist actually was born on the 300th anniversary of
> Galileo's death?
 
Hawking

> 10. Zoologists honored Hugh Hefner by naming Sylvilagus palustris
> hefneri for him. What kind of animal is this?
 
rabbit
 
> at the area not covered by wax. After cleaning the wax off,
> I now have a pattern on my original object. What is this
> process called? Gunsmiths have used it for 400 years.
 
etching
 
> Give the term for this asexual reproduction, where
> growth, development, and eventually birth happens without
> fertilization.
 
parthenogenesis
 
> sublimation (the same as the reverse transformation directly
> from solid to gas), but we want the other term that refers
> specifically to a transformation *from* gas *to* solid.
 
deposition
 
 
> C2. Throughout the Pacific Ring of Fire are found tectonic
> subduction zones. Describe what is happening at a subduction
> zone.
 
one tectonic plate slides under another
 
> while you are face-planted, and uploads it onto the Internet.
> What is this fad called? It was featured in an episode of
> NBC's "The Office".
 
planking

> It actually sends you to a web site such as youtube, for
> the Rick Astley video "Never Gonna Give You Up". Give the
> Internet meme term for what has just happened to you.
 
rickrolling
 
--
Joshua Kreitzer
gromit82@hotmail.com
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