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  2. Starch gelatinization - Wikipedia

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    A crepe being cooked. Starch gelatinization is a process of breaking down of intermolecular bonds of starch molecules in the presence of water and heat, allowing the hydrogen bonding sites (the hydroxyl hydrogen and oxygen) to engage more water.

  3. Peridotite - Wikipedia

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    Many show poikilitic texture in which crystallization of this liquid has produced crystals that overgrow and enclose the original cumulus crystals (called chadrocrysts). [52] Another texture is a well-annealed texture of equal sized anhedral crystals with straight grain boundaries intersecting at 120°. This may result when slow cooling allowed ...

  4. Metamorphic rock - Wikipedia

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    During this process, the rock remains mostly in the solid state, but gradually recrystallizes to a new texture or mineral composition. [1] The protolith may be an igneous, sedimentary, or existing metamorphic rock. Metamorphic rocks make up a large part of the Earth's crust and form 12% of the Earth's land surface. [2]

  5. Homogeneity and heterogeneity - Wikipedia

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    Homogeneity and heterogeneity; only ' b ' is homogeneous Homogeneity and heterogeneity are concepts relating to the uniformity of a substance, process or image.A homogeneous feature is uniform in composition or character (i.e., color, shape, size, weight, height, distribution, texture, language, income, disease, temperature, radioactivity, architectural design, etc.); one that is heterogeneous ...

  6. Evaporite - Wikipedia

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    A cobble encrusted with halite evaporated from the Dead Sea, Israel (with Israeli ₪1 coin [diameter 18mm] for scale). An evaporite (/ ɪ ˈ v æ p ə ˌ r aɪ t /) is a water-soluble sedimentary mineral deposit that results from concentration and crystallization by evaporation from an aqueous solution. [1]

  7. Texture - Wikipedia

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    Texture (roads), road surface characteristics with waves shorter than road roughness; Texture (cosmology), a theoretical topological defect in the structure of spacetime; Crystallographic texture, distribution of crystallographic orientations in a polycrystalline material; Texture (geology), a physical appearance or character of a rock

  8. Properties of metals, metalloids and nonmetals - Wikipedia

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    The chemical elements can be broadly divided into metals, metalloids, and nonmetals according to their shared physical and chemical properties.All elemental metals have a shiny appearance (at least when freshly polished); are good conductors of heat and electricity; form alloys with other metallic elements; and have at least one basic oxide.

  9. Tholin - Wikipedia

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    On Titan, their chemistry is initiated at high altitudes and participates in the formation of solid organic particles. [8] These atmospherically-derived substances are distinct from ice tholin II, which are formed instead by irradiation of clathrates of water and organic compounds such as methane (CH 4) or ethane (C 2 H 6).