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  2. Amalgamation - Wikipedia

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    Amalgamation (race), a now largely archaic term for the merger of people of different ethnicities and "races" Amalgamation, another name for a trade union, chiefly used in the UK; Amalgamation, in C (programming language) (C) and C++ programming, merging all the source codes of a library into a single header file

  3. Science project - Wikipedia

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    A science project is an educational activity for students involving experiments or construction of models in one of the science disciplines. Students may present their science project at a science fair, so they may also call it a science fair project. Science projects may be classified into four main types.

  4. Amalgamation (names) - Wikipedia

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    Amalgamation is also a term used in linguistics when a compound contains roots from several languages, without it being part of a blended language. For example, a word with an English and a Spanish root would not be an amalgam, if part of Spanglish , while an English word with a Greek and a Latin root would.

  5. Amalgam (chemistry) - Wikipedia

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    Zinc amalgam finds use in organic synthesis (e.g., for the Clemmensen reduction). [3] It is the reducing agent in the Jones reductor, used in analytical chemistry.Formerly the zinc plates of dry batteries were amalgamated with a small amount of mercury to prevent deterioration in storage.

  6. List of citizen science projects - Wikipedia

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    [4] [5] An emerging branch of Citizen Science are Community Mapping projects that utilize smartphone and tablet technology. For example, TurtleSAT [6] is a community mapping project that is mapping freshwater turtle deaths throughout Australia. This list of citizen science projects involves projects that engage all age groups.

  7. Conflation - Wikipedia

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    For example, "a bull in a candy store" can be formed from the root expressions "a bull in a China shop" and "a kid in a candy store". The latter expression paints a picture of someone ("a kid") who is extraordinarily happy and excited, whereas the former brings to mind the image of a person ("a bull") who is extremely clumsy, indelicate, not ...

  8. PDF/A - Wikipedia

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    PDF is a standard for encoding documents in an "as printed" form that is portable between systems. However, the suitability of a PDF file for archival preservation depends on options chosen when the PDF is created: most notably, whether to embed the necessary fonts for rendering the document; whether to use encryption; and whether to preserve additional information from the original document ...

  9. Cultural amalgamation - Wikipedia

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    The origins of cultural amalgamation: When people from the Chinese culture meet people from the European culture and greet each other. Cultural amalgamation refers to the process of mixing two cultures to create a new culture. [1] [2] It is often described as a more balanced type of cultural interaction than the process of cultural assimilation.