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Polyacrylonitrile (PAN) is a synthetic, semicrystalline organic polymer resin, with the linear formula (CH 2 CHCN) n. [2] Almost all PAN resins are copolymers with acrylonitrile as the main monomer .
Chapter 5 deals with Bolsheviks' postwar irrigation initiatives. Chapter 6 discusses the Soviet five-year plans and large-scale irrigation projects implemented in the 1930s, including the Vakhsh River irrigation project and the Great Ferghana Canal. The epilogue connects these historical developments to the Aral Sea crisis.
LibreOffice Impress, one of the most popular free and open-source presentation programs. In computing, a presentation program (also called presentation software) is a software package used to display information in the form of a slide show.
The North Aral Sea Project's main initiative is the construction of a dam across the Berg Strait, a deep channel which connects the North Aral Sea to the South Aral Sea. The Kok-Aral Dam is 13 kilometres (8 miles) long and has capacity for over 29 cubic kilometres of water to be stored in the North Aral Sea, whilst allowing excess to overflow ...
Aral AG (previously Veba Öl AG) is a German oil company established in 1898 as Westdeutsche Benzol-Verkaufs-Vereinigung GmbH (West German Benzene Marketing Corporation). The company is currently owned by British conglomerate BP [ 1 ] after it was purchased in 2002.
In soil science, agriculture and gardening, hardpan or soil pan is a dense layer of soil, usually found below the uppermost topsoil layer. [1] There are different types of hardpan, all sharing the general characteristic of being a distinct soil layer that is largely impervious to water. Some hardpans are formed by deposits in the soil that fuse ...
Kakasa Ka Ba sa Grade 5? (transl. are you ready for grade 5?) is a Philippine television game show broadcast by GMA Network. The show is the Philippine version of Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader?. Hosted by Janno Gibbs, it premiered on October 27, 2007. The first season concluded on March 29, 2008.
The severely reduced inflow caused the water level in the Aral Sea to drop. While the North Aral Sea rose due to the Dike Kokaral, the South Aral Sea kept dropping, thus expanding the size of the desert, until 2010, when the South Aral Sea was partly reflooded. The water level of the South Aral Sea then began to drop again, this time more severely.