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The word ceramic comes from the Ancient Greek word κεραμικός (keramikós), meaning "of or for pottery" [4] (from κέραμος (kéramos) ' potter's clay, tile, pottery '). [5] The earliest known mention of the root ceram- is the Mycenaean Greek ke-ra-me-we , workers of ceramic, written in Linear B syllabic script. [ 6 ]
Bunnings Group Limited, trading as Bunnings Warehouse or Bunnings, is an Australian hardware and garden centre chain. [2] The chain has been owned by Wesfarmers since 1994, and has stores in Australia and New Zealand. [3] Bunnings was founded in Perth, Western Australia in 1886, by brothers Arthur and Robert Bunning, who had
Robotix is a 1985 American animated series based on the original Milton Bradley toyline of the same name featured on the Super Sunday programming block. [1] The toyline is of the construction type that includes motors , wheels and pincers and similar to the Erector Set and K'Nex .
The ghosts from the computer game Pac-Man.A mosaic by Invader in Bilbao (BBO 24–27), near the Guggenheim Museum. 2008. Invader is a pseudonymous French street artist. He is known for his ceramic tile mosaics modeled on the pixelated art of 1970s–1980s 8-bit video games, many of which depict the titular aliens from the arcade games Space Invaders, Pac-Man and Super Mario Bros. (the ...
A spot plate, also called a reaction plate, color test plate, [1] or spotting tile (British English), is a laboratory tool made either from ceramics or plastics. [2] Each plate consists of many cavity-like depressions in which only small amount of reactants can be added at a time. [ 3 ]
Tile drainage is a form of agricultural drainage system that removes excess sub-surface water from fields to allow sufficient air space within the soil, proper cultivation, and access by heavy machinery to tend and harvest crops.
A white-headed dwarf gecko with tail lost due to autotomy. Autotomy (from the Greek auto-, "self-" and tome, "severing", αὐτοτομία) or 'self-amputation', is the behaviour whereby an animal sheds or discards an appendage, [1] usually as a self-defense mechanism to elude a predator's grasp or to distract the predator and thereby allow escape.
Spelling Jungle, also known as Yobi's Basic Spelling Tricks [2] or Yobi's Magic Spelling Tricks, [3] is an educational adventure game created by Bright Star Technology [nb 1] and released by Sierra in 1993 for both Windows and Macintosh PCs. [5]