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A synthetic element is one of 24 known chemical elements that do not occur naturally on Earth: they have been created by human manipulation of fundamental particles in a nuclear reactor, a particle accelerator, or the explosion of an atomic bomb; thus, they are called "synthetic", "artificial", or "man-made".
Artificiality often carries with it the implication of being false, counterfeit, or deceptive. The philosopher Aristotle wrote in his Rhetoric: . Naturalness is persuasive, artificiality is the contrary; for our hearers are prejudiced and think we have some design against them, as if we were mixing their wines for them.
The Yoruba culture holds that the god Obatala, likewise, created the human race from clay. [34] The Efé people have a creation story in which the first man was made of clay and skin. [28] According to Malagasy mythology, the sky deity Zanahary and the earth deity Ratovantany created the Malagasy people by breathing life into clay dolls. [28]
The Flevopolder in the Netherlands is 970 km 2 (375 sq mi) and is the largest island formed by reclaimed land in the world.. An artificial island or man-made island is an island that has been constructed by humans rather than formed through natural processes. [1]
An Esperantido some believe was created to cause dissent among Idoists. Timerio: 1921 Tiemer: A language where each concept is replaced with a number, intended to be used as a means for automatic translation. Interlingue: ie, ile 1922 Edgar de Wahl: A sophisticated naturalistic IAL, also known as Occidental. Novial: nov 1928 Otto Jespersen
Lab-grown diamonds of various colors grown by the high-pressure-and-temperature technique. A synthetic diamond or laboratory-grown diamond (LGD), also called a lab-grown diamond, [1] laboratory-created, man-made, artisan-created, artificial, synthetic, or cultured diamond, is a diamond that is produced in a controlled technological process (in contrast to naturally formed diamond, which is ...
The FBI concluded with "moderate confidence" that COVID-19 may have been created in a laboratory, based in part on genomic analysis conducted by scientists at the National Center for Medical Intelligence. [98] On 20 March 2023, the COVID-19 Origin Act of 2023 was signed into law. On June 23, 2023, the Biden administration released its report ...
Nearly half of the 500 African Americans surveyed said that HIV is man-made. More than one-quarter said they believed that AIDS was produced in a government laboratory, and 12 percent believed it was created and spread by the CIA ...