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  2. Units of textile measurement - Wikipedia

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    The denier is based on a natural reference: a single strand of silk is approximately one denier; a 9,000-metre strand of silk weighs about one gram. The term denier comes from the French denier, a coin of small value (worth 1 ⁄ 12 sou). Applied to yarn, a denier was held to be equal in weight to 1 ⁄ 24 ounce (1.2 g).

  3. Denier - Wikipedia

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    French denier (penny), a type of medieval coin; Denier (unit), a unit of linear mass density of fibers; Denier, Pas-de-Calais, France, a commune; The Deniers, a 2008 book by Canadian environmentalist Lawrence Solomon

  4. Climate change denial - Wikipedia

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    The executive director of the Society of Environmental Journalists said that while there was reasonable skepticism about specific issues, she felt that "denier" was "the most accurate term when someone claims there is no such thing as global warming, or agrees that it exists but denies that it has any cause we could understand or any impact ...

  5. Specific strength - Wikipedia

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    It is usually defined as the ultimate (breaking) force of the fiber (in gram-force units) divided by the denier. Because denier is a measure of the linear density, the tenacity works out to be not a measure of force per unit area, but rather a quasi-dimensionless measure analogous to specific strength. [45]

  6. We knew about climate change in the '50s. Why an author ... - AOL

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    Explain your title in shorthand. It has been said that America has the most extreme adversarial culture. The minute you have an issue, it is binary and people are incredibly aggressive.

  7. French denier - Wikipedia

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    The denier (/ d ə ˈ n ɪər /; Latin: denarius, Italian: denaro, Greek: δηνάριο, romanized: dinario; abbr. d. ) or penny was a medieval coin which takes its name from the Frankish coin first issued in the late seventh century; [ 1 ] in English it is sometimes referred to as a silver penny.

  8. Drew Barrymore on Aging and Turning 50 Today - AOL

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    Drew Barrymore is entering a new era, and she's celebrating it with two people she loves most in the world.. The Drew Barrymore Show host is turning 50 years old on February 22, and she recently ...

  9. WADA explains reasons for different doping bans for Sinner ...

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    The World Anti-Doping Agency on Monday offered an explanation for why top-ranked tennis player Jannik Sinner received a much shorter doping ban than the six-year suspension it handed to a Spanish ...