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Theophrastus's Enquiry into Plants or Historia Plantarum (Ancient Greek: Περὶ φυτῶν ἱστορία, Peri phyton historia) was, along with his mentor Aristotle's History of Animals, Pliny the Elder's Natural History and Dioscorides's De materia medica, one of the most important books of natural history written in ancient times, and like them it was influential in the Renaissance.
Tribology is the science and engineering of understanding friction, lubrication and wear phenomena for interacting surfaces in relative motion.It is highly interdisciplinary, drawing on many academic fields, including physics, chemistry, materials science, mathematics, biology and engineering. [1]
Coal is formed from prehistoric plants buried much closer to the surface, and is unlikely to migrate below 3.2 kilometers (2.0 mi) through geological processes. Most diamonds that have been dated are older than the first land plants, and are therefore older than coal. Neither "tin" foil nor "tin" cans still use tin as a primary material.
Medicinal plants are widely used as folk medicine in non-industrialized societies, mainly because they are readily available and cheaper than modern medicines. The annual global export value of the thousands of types of plants with medicinal properties was estimated to be US$60 billion per year and growing at the rate of 6% per annum.
LeBron James doesn't have to lead the Los Angeles Lakers in scoring for them to win. This season, he's been the team's leading scorer only four times. (By comparison, Anthony Davis has led the ...
Over nine games in 2024, Warren was 134-of-209 passing for 1,199 yards. He threw seven touchdowns and nine interceptions as Michigan’s QBs had 12 TD passes and 13 interceptions. Overall, the ...
Trapezium (トラペジウム, Torapejiumu) is a Japanese novel written by then-Nogizaka46 member Kazumi Takayama. It was initially serialized in Kadokawa Shoten 's Da Vinci book and manga news magazine from April 2016 to August 2018.
The Container Store said late Sunday that it is filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection after years of losses and declining sales.. The retailer, known for selling storage and organizational ...