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  2. Antipodes - Wikipedia

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    For example, the island of Ko Chang—which is the second or third largest island in Thailand—is nearly antipodal to San Lorenzo Island, which is the largest island of Peru. The antipodes of the Antipodes Islands, considered by early European explorers to be antipodal to the United Kingdom, are the town of Barfleur on France's Cotentin Peninsula.

  3. Specular highlight - Wikipedia

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    Specular highlights on a pair of spheres. A specular highlight is the bright spot of light that appears on shiny objects when illuminated (for example, see image on right). ). Specular highlights are important in 3D computer graphics, as they provide a strong visual cue for the shape of an object and its location with respect to light sources in the

  4. Liver spot - Wikipedia

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    Such cells might then aggregate into a spot with an irregular shape. [13] They propose that the protrusion of a flat spot is a result of the death of aged cells in the spot and release of lipofuscin bodies. [13] The aggregating cells would form a capsule, and the dense lipofuscin bodies make the protruding spot soft and dark in color. [13]

  5. Hotspot (geology) - Wikipedia

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    An example of this activity is the Ilgachuz Range in British Columbia, which was created by an early complex series of trachyte and rhyolite eruptions, and late extrusion of a sequence of basaltic lava flows. [12] The hotspot hypothesis is now closely linked to the mantle plume hypothesis.

  6. Eyespot (mimicry) - Wikipedia

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    Some reptiles, such as the sand lizard of Europe, have eyespots; in the sand lizard's case, there is a row of spots along the back, and a row on each side. [12]Many species of cat, including Geoffroy's cats, jungle cats, pampas cats, and servals, have white markings, whether spots or bars, on the backs of their ears; it is possible that these signal "follow me" to the young of the species.

  7. Thin-layer chromatography - Wikipedia

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    Placing the plate in a container filled with iodine vapours temporarily stains the spots. [4] They typically become a yellow or brown colour. The TLC plate can either be dipped in or sprayed with a stain and sometimes heated depending on the stain used. Many stains exist for a large range of chemical moieties but some examples include: [7] [16 ...

  8. Arago spot - Wikipedia

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    In 2009, the Arago spot experiment was demonstrated with a supersonic expansion beam of deuterium molecules (an example of neutral matter waves). [24] Material particles behaving like waves is known from quantum mechanics .

  9. Blind spot (vision) - Wikipedia

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    Distribution of rods and cones along a line passing through the fovea and the blind spot of a human eye [1]. A blind spot, scotoma, is an obscuration of the visual field.A particular blind spot known as the physiological blind spot, "blind point", or punctum caecum in medical literature, is the place in the visual field that corresponds to the lack of light-detecting photoreceptor cells on the ...