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  2. Methods used by advocacy groups - Wikipedia

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    Traditionally, the campaigns of advocacy groups have included letter-writing, petitions and marches.For example, in the mid-1980s, LIFE compiled a petition of more than 2,000,000 names opposed to abortion, organised a "Mail MPs a Mountain" campaign in 1987 and employed postcard campaigns in 1989 and 1990 against the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990.

  3. IUPAC numerical multiplier - Wikipedia

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    The numbers 200-900 would be confused easily with 22 to 29 if they were used in chemistry. khīlioi = 1000, diskhīlioi = 2000, triskhīlioi = 3000, etc. 13 to 19 are formed by starting with the Greek word for the number of ones, followed by και (the Greek word for 'and'), followed by δέκα (the Greek word for 'ten').

  4. List of chemistry mnemonics - Wikipedia

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    A mnemonic is a memory aid used to improve long-term memory and make the process of consolidation easier. Many chemistry aspects, rules, names of compounds, sequences of elements, their reactivity, etc., can be easily and efficiently memorized with the help of mnemonics.

  5. List of chemistry societies - Wikipedia

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    Institute of Chemistry, Ceylon (Sri Lanka) Institute of Chemistry of Ireland; Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE) International Federation of Societies of Cosmetic Chemists; International Mass Spectrometry Foundation; International Union of Crystallography; International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) Iota Sigma Pi

  6. Advocacy - Wikipedia

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    Advocacy is an activity by an individual or group that aims to influence decisions within political, economic, and social institutions. Advocacy includes activities and publications to influence public policy, laws and budgets by using facts, their relationships, the media, and messaging to educate government officials and the public.

  7. Branches of science - Wikipedia

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    Logic (from Greek: λογική, logikḗ, 'possessed of reason, intellectual, dialectical, argumentative') [5] [6] [note 1] is the systematic study of valid rules of inference, i.e. the relations that lead to the acceptance of one proposition (the conclusion) on the basis of a set of other propositions ().

  8. Groups fight California attorney general's document demands ...

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    The American Chemistry Council and Plastics Industry Association filed their lawsuits in a Washington, D.C., federal court, claiming California's Democratic top lawyer's demands have chilled their ...

  9. History of chemistry - Wikipedia

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    The protoscience of chemistry, and alchemy, was unsuccessful in explaining the nature of matter and its transformations. However, by performing experiments and recording the results, alchemists set the stage for modern chemistry. The history of chemistry is intertwined with the history of thermodynamics, especially through the work of Willard ...