(from the article "clay mineral") The water adsorbed between layers or in structural channels may further be divided into zeolitic and bound waters. The latter is bound to exchangeable cations or directly to the clay mineral surfaces. Both forms of water may be removed by ...
in the Eastern Orthodox church, a part of the Eucharistic liturgy in which the deacon pours a few drops of hot water (known as the zeon, or "living water") into the chalice. The origin of the rite is not known, ...
Israelite prophet, said to be the author of one of the shorter Old Testament prophetical books, who proclaimed the approaching divine judgment. The first verse of the Book of Zephaniah makes him a contemporary of Josiah, king of Judah (reigned ... [2 Related Articles]
the ninth of 12 Old Testament books that bear the names of the Minor Prophets, collected in one book, The Twelve, in the Jewish canon. The book consists of a series of independent sayings, many of which are rightly attributed ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "textile") ...for infants' and children's sweaters and for shawls; worsted knitting yarn, highly twisted and heavy, differing from worsted fabric by being soft instead of crisp, and suitable for sweaters; and zephyr yarns, either all wool, or wool blended with other ...
rigid airship of a type originally manufactured by Luftschiffsbau-Zeppelin and consisting of a cigar-shaped, trussed, and covered frame supported by internal gas cells. The first Zeppelin airship was designed by Ferdinand, Graf von Zeppelin, a retired German army officer, and ... [6 Related Articles]
(from the article "aerospace industry") ...company founded by Ferdinand, Graf (count) von Zeppelin, in 1908 was still in operation, but it had not built an airship in more than half a century. In 1993 it returned to its roots by forming Zeppelin Luftschifftechnik GmbH with ...
(from the article "annelid") ...prostomial appendages; no parapodial lobes; setae arise directly from body wall; all setae simple; minute; examples of genera: Ctenodrilus, Zeppilina.Sedentary; prostomium pointed and without appendages; 1 or more pairs of tentacular cirri arising ...
(Hebrew: "Seeds"), the first of the six major divisions, or orders (sedarim), of the Mishna (codification of Jewish oral laws), which was completed early in the 3rd century AD by Judah ha-Nasi. Zera'im contains 11 tractates (treatises), the first of ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "ba'al shem") in Judaism, title bestowed upon men who reputedly worked wonders and effected cures through secret knowledge of the ineffable names of God. Benjamin ben Zerah (11th century) was one of several Jewish poets to employ the mystical names of God ...
mountain range in Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, forming a part of the Gissar-Alay system. It extends for more than 230 miles (370 km) east-west parallel to the Turkistan Range between the Zeravshan Valley on the north and the Yagnob and Iskanderdarya ... [1 Related Articles]
river rising in the eastern Turkistan Range and flowing 545 miles (877 km) west through Tajikistan and southeastern Uzbekistan to disappear in the desert north of Charjew near the Amu Darya, of which it was at one time a tributary. ... [3 Related Articles]
(from the article "Burkina Faso") ...General Lamizana dominated the nation's politics until November 1980, when a series of strikes launched by workers, teachers, and civil servants led to another coup, this time headed by Colonel Saye Zerbo.
U.S. Pres. George W. Bush in 2002 tapped Algerian-born radiologist Elias Zerhouni to be the 15th director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the world's largest medical research facility. The choice of Zerhouni came after months of searching for ...
(from the article "Algeria") The effect of the charter was limited, although by November no official details had been published. Interior Minister Noureddine Yazid Zerhouni claimed that between 250 and 300 persons had submitted to the authorities and that 41,000 cases had been examined, ...
town, Valais canton, southern Switzerland. It lies at the head of the Mattervisp Valley and at the foot of the Matterhorn (14,692 feet [4,478 m]), 23 miles (37 km) southeast of Sion. Its name is derived from its position Zur ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "axiom of choice") The axiom of choice was first formulated in 1904 by the German mathematician Ernst Zermelo in order to prove the "well-ordering theorem" (every set can be given an order relationship, such as less than, under which it is well ordered; ...
(from the article "logic, history of") Independently of Russell and Whitehead's work, and more narrowly in the German mathematical tradition of Dedekind and Cantor, in 1908 Ernst Zermelo described axioms of set theory that, slightly modified, came to be standard in the 20th century. The type ...
Dutch scientist, winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1953 for his invention of the phase-contrast microscope, an instrument that permits the study of internal cell structure without the need to stain and thus kill the cells. [1 Related Articles]
fighter aircraft, a single-seat, low-wing monoplane used with great effect by the Japanese during World War II. Designed by Horikoshi Jiro, it was the first carrier-based fighter capable of besting its land-based opponents. It was designed to specifications written in ... [3 Related Articles]
(from the article "mathematics") ...and so on. In fact, &babylonian1; could represent any power of 60. The context determined which power was intended. The Babylonians appear to have developed a placeholder symbol that functioned as a zero by the 3rd century BC, but its ...
(from the article "Paraguay") ...Official estimates of the rate of deforestation suggest that Paraguay is in danger of losing virtually all its forests by the middle of the 21st century. In 2004 the Paraguayan government passed the Zero Deforestation Law, which prohibits the conversion ...
(from the article "Caucasian languages") ...functional vowel alternation, or ablaut; different forms of a word root or word element appear either with a vowel (*e, *a, *o), called full grade, or without a vowel, called zero grade. (An asterisk [*] indicates that the following form ...
(from the article "Bolivia") Despite the tension in several sectors, high commodity prices and the absence of crippling foreign-debt payments allowed Bolivia to register a measure of economic growth. Morales's Zero Malnutrition program, which aimed to wipe out a scourge affecting 40% of the ...
(from the article "matrix") A matrix O with all its elements 0 is called a zero matrix. A square matrix A with 1s on the main diagonal (upper left to lower right) and 0s everywhere else is called a unit matrix. It is denoted ...
(from the article "nuclear strategy") ...marketable aim of matching the deployment of the SS-20, and in November 1981, at the start of negotiations on this issue, Reagan offered to eliminate NATO's INF if all SS-20s were removed. This "zero option" was rejected by Leonid Brezhnev, ...
(from the article "Davis, Kingsley") American sociologist and demographer who coined the terms population explosion and zero population growth. His specific studies of American society led him to work on a general science of world society, based on empirical analysis of each society in its ...
(from the article "training, transfer of") Basically three kinds of transfer can occur: positive, negative, and zero. The following examples from hypothetical experiments, purposely uncomplicated by distracting detail, illustrate each. Suppose a group of students learn a task, B, in 10 practice sessions. Another group of ...
(from the article "star") ...sequence can be understood as a consequence of evolution. At the beginning of their lives as hydrogen-burning objects, stars define a nearly unique line in the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram called the zero-age main sequence. Without differences in initial chemical composition or ...
(from the article "government budget") ...Jimmy Carter administration in the United States, although planning for a steep rise in expenditure as a proportion of gross domestic product (GDP), also attempted to introduce the concept of "zero-base budgeting," whereby the entire government program, not just its ...
(from the article "Notable early nuclear reactors") ...is now Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Shortly after the end of World War II, the Canadian project succeeded in building a zero-power, natural uranium-fueled research reactor, the so-called ZEEP (Zero-Energy Experimental Pile). The first enriched-fuel research reactor was completed at ...
(from the article "organometallic compound") The central metal in a neutral metal carbonyl, such as those described above, is assigned an oxidation state of zero, quite unlike the case in simple inorganic compounds in which positive oxidation states are the norm, as, for example, Fe3+ ...
vibrational energy that molecules retain even at the absolute zero of temperature. Temperature in physics has been found to be a measure of the intensity of random molecular motion, and it might be expected that, as temperature is reduced to ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "celestial mechanics") ...the velocity of the massless particle in this frame to its position. For given values of this constant it is possible to construct curves in the plane on which the velocity vanishes. If such a zero-velocity curve is closed, the ...
(from the article "telescope") ...better materials for mirrors have become available. Cer-Vit, for example, was used for the 4.2-metre William Herschel Telescope of the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory in the Canary Islands, and Zerodur (trademark) for the 3.5-metre reflector at the German-Spanish Astronomical ...
(from the article "thermodynamics") The zeroth law of thermodynamics. When two systems are each in thermal equilibrium with a third system, the first two systems are in thermal equilibrium with each other. This property makes it meaningful to use thermometers as ...
(from the article "telecommunications media") ...as follows. Different reflection angles within the fibre core create different propagation paths for the light rays. Rays that travel nearest to the axis of the core propagate by what is called the zeroth order mode; other light rays propagate ...
As the violent struggle between Islamic fundamentalists and Algeria's military-dominated government continued in 1996, Pres. Liamine Zeroual unveiled proposals for constitutional reforms aimed at resolving his country's severe domestic crisis. The proposed reforms, which Zeroual outlined publicly in May, included ... [1 Related Articles]
governor of Judaea under whom the rebuilding of the Jewish Temple at Jerusalem took place. Of Davidic origin, Zerubbabel is thought to have originally been a Babylonian Jew who returned to Jerusalem at the head of a band of Jewish ... [4 Related Articles]
(from the article "EDES") ...force that, bolstered by British support, constituted the only serious challenge to EAM-ELAS (q.v.) control of the resistance movement in occupied Greece during World War II. Led by Gen. Napoleon Zervas, EDES was originally liberal and antimonarchist; but it moved ...
(from the article "Montenegro") The Slav peoples were organized along tribal lines, each headed by a zupan (chieftain). In this part of the Adriatic littoral, from the time of the arrival of the Slavs up to the 10th century, these local ...
(from the article "eclipse") Zeta Aurigae is the prototype of a class of eclipsing binaries composed of a cool supergiant star and a hot blue star. Although the supergiant's atmosphere is large enough to reach to the orbit of Venus were the star to ...
(from the article "star") ...Matter flowing outward from a star produces a stellar wind analogous to the solar wind, but one that is often much more extensive and violent. In the spectrum of certain very hot O-type stars (e.g., Zeta Puppis), strong, relatively narrow ...
Welsh-born actress who demonstrated her versatility in a wide range of films, most notably the musical Chicago (2002), for which she won the Academy Award for best supporting actress. [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "Calais and Zetes") in Greek mythology, the winged twin sons of Boreas and Oreithyia. On their arrival with the Argonauts at Salmydessus in Thrace, they liberated their sister Cleopatra, who had been thrown into prison by her husband, Phineus, the king of the ...
(from the article "Amphion and Zethus") in Greek mythology, the twin sons of Zeus by Antiope. When children, they were left to die on Mount Cithaeron but were found and brought up by a shepherd. Amphion became a great singer and musician, Zethus a hunter and ...
nee Eissner German feminist, Socialist, and Communist leader, who after World War I played a leading role in the new Communist Party of Germany (Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands; KPD) and the Comintern (Third International). [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "stadium") ...was built in Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota, and called the Metrodome. Such cable systems can span large distances; a concept for a 200,000-capacity, covered baseball stadium was developed by Lev Zetlin, an American engineer.
