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  2. Master boot record - Wikipedia

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    Versions of Windows more recent than Windows XP support the larger sector sizes, as well as Mac OS X, and Linux has supported larger sector sizes since 2.6.31 [20] or 2.6.32, [21] but issues with boot loaders, partitioning tools and computer BIOS implementations present certain limitations, [22] since they are often hard-wired to reserve only ...

  3. Hermeticism - Wikipedia

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    In Hermeticism, however, alchemy is primarily a spiritual discipline, where the physical transformation of materials is a metaphor for the spiritual purification and perfection of the soul. The ultimate goal of alchemical work is the creation of the philosopher's stone , which symbolizes the attainment of spiritual enlightenment and immortality.

  4. History of chemistry - Wikipedia

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    The Gibbs free energy relates the tendency of a physical or chemical system to simultaneously lower its energy and increase its disorder, or entropy, in a spontaneous natural process. Gibbs's approach allows a researcher to calculate the change in free energy in the process, such as in a chemical reaction, and how fast it will happen.