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  2. List of fictional elements, materials, isotopes and subatomic ...

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    It can negate gravity and magic, among other properties. [56] In some versions, the Legion of Super-Heroes' flight rings are made of valorium, an Nth metal alloy. Octiron Discworld: A strange, iridescent metal; highly valued. It radiates dangerous amounts of raw enchantment and is so unstable it can only exist in a universe saturated with raw ...

  3. Sounds to Sample - Wikipedia

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    Sounds to Sample is a UK-based website that sells copyright free audio samples and loops for use in music production. It was launched in 2007 (17 years ago) () by Sharooz Raoofi and David Felton, initially as a digital download portal for the Sample Magic libraries, and expanded to include developers such as Sony, Zero G and Best Service. [1]

  4. Potion - Wikipedia

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    Recipes for the potion appeared in the work of the popular English apothecary Nicholas Culpeper and the official pharmacopoeia handbooks of London and Amsterdam. Queen Elizabeth 's French ambassador was even treated with the remedy; however, the recipe was altered to include a "unicorn's horn" (possibly a ground-up narwhal tusk ) in addition to ...

  5. Armstrong's mixture - Wikipedia

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    Simple mixtures of red phosphorus and potassium chlorate can detonate at a wide range of proportions; a 20% phosphorus mixture had 27% of the equivalent power of a like mass of TNT in a laboratory experiment, and the detonation of the 10% and 20% phosphorus mixtures even in small unconfined samples of 1 gram was described by the authors of one ...

  6. Mass spectrometry - Wikipedia

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    There are many mass/charge separation and isolation methods but the most commonly used is the mass instability mode in which the RF potential is ramped so that the orbit of ions with a mass a > b are stable while ions with mass b become unstable and are ejected on the z-axis onto a detector. There are also non-destructive analysis methods.

  7. Ringer's solution - Wikipedia

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    Ringer's solution is named after Sydney Ringer, who in 1882–1885 determined that a solution perfusing a frog's heart must contain sodium, potassium and calcium salts in a definite proportion if the heart is to be kept beating for long.

  8. Magic word - Wikipedia

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    Magic words are phrases used in fantasy fiction or by stage magicians. Frequently such words are presented as being part of a divine, adamic, or other secret or empowered language. Certain comic book heroes use magic words to activate their powers. Magic words are also used as Easter eggs or cheats in computer games, other software, and ...

  9. Proton pack - Wikipedia

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    A replica of the ghost trap used in the original film. The proton pack, designed and built by Dr. Egon Spengler, is a man-portable cyclotron system (and indeed Dr. Peter Venkman refers to the proton packs in one scene as "unlicensed nuclear accelerators"), [3] that is used to create a charged particle beam—composed of protons—that is fired by the particle thrower (also referred to as the ...