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  2. Plastisphere - Wikipedia

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    Plastisphere. A colony of limpets attached to a diving mask, found washed ashore on a beach. The plastisphere is a human-made ecosystem consisting of organisms able to live on plastic waste. Plastic marine debris, most notably microplastics, accumulates in aquatic environments and serves as a habitat for various types of microorganisms ...

  3. Hoberman sphere - Wikipedia

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    Hoberman sphere. A Hoberman sphere is a kinetic structure patented by Chuck Hoberman that resembles a geodesic dome, but is capable of folding down to a fraction of its normal size by the scissor -like action of its joints. Colorful plastic versions have become popular as children's toys: several toy sizes exist, with the original design ...

  4. Plasma globe - Wikipedia

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    A plasma ball with filaments extending between the inner and outer spheres. A plasma ball, plasma globe, or plasma lamp is a clear glass container filled with noble gases, usually a mixture of neon, krypton, and xenon, that has a high-voltage electrode in the center of the container. When voltage is applied, a plasma is formed within the container.

  5. Perplexus - Wikipedia

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    Perplexus, originally released as Superplexus, is a 3-D ball-in-a-maze puzzle or labyrinth game enclosed in a transparent plastic sphere. By twisting and turning it, players try to maneuver a small steel ball through a complex maze along narrow plastic tracks. The maze has many steps (varying across puzzles). The number of steps ranges from 30 ...

  6. Magic 8 Ball - Wikipedia

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    The Magic 8 Ball is a hollow plastic sphere resembling a black-and-white 8 ball. Its standard size is larger than an ordinary pool ball, but it has been made in different sizes. Inside the ball, a cylindrical reservoir contains a white plastic 20-sided regular icosahedron die floating in approximately 100 ml ( 3 + 1 ⁄ 2 US fl oz) of alcohol ...

  7. Shade ball - Wikipedia

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    A shade ball is a small plastic sphere floated on top of a reservoir for environmental reasons, including to slow evaporation and prevent sunlight from causing reactions among chemical compounds present in the water. Also known as bird balls, they were developed initially to prevent birds from landing on bodies of water.

  8. Geodesic dome - Wikipedia

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    Geodesic dome. A geodesic dome is a hemispherical thin-shell structure (lattice-shell) based on a geodesic polyhedron. The rigid triangular elements of the dome distribute stress throughout the structure, making geodesic domes able to withstand very heavy loads for their size.

  9. Lithosphere - Wikipedia

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    Lithosphere. The tectonic plates of the lithosphere on Earth. Earth cutaway from center to surface, the lithosphere comprising the crust and lithospheric mantle (detail not to scale) A lithosphere (from Ancient Greek λίθος (líthos) 'rocky' and σφαίρα (sphaíra) 'sphere') is the rigid, [ 1] outermost rocky shell of a terrestrial ...

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