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  2. Cryptic crossword - Wikipedia

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    A 15x15 lattice-style grid is common for cryptic crosswords. A cryptic crossword is a crossword puzzle in which each clue is a word puzzle. Cryptic crosswords are particularly popular in the United Kingdom, where they originated, [1] as well as Ireland, the Netherlands, and in several Commonwealth nations, including Australia, Canada, India, Kenya, Malta, New Zealand, and South Africa.

  3. Catalysis - Wikipedia

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    A true catalyst can work in tandem with a sacrificial catalyst. The true catalyst is consumed in the elementary reaction and turned into a deactivated form. The sacrificial catalyst regenerates the true catalyst for another cycle. The sacrificial catalyst is consumed in the reaction, and as such, it is not really a catalyst, but a reagent.

  4. Causes of World War II - Wikipedia

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    The causes of World War II have been given considerable attention by historians. The immediate precipitating event was the invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany on September 1, 1939, and the subsequent declarations of war on Germany made by Britain and France , but many other prior events have been suggested as ultimate causes.

  5. Oxygenate - Wikipedia

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    However, they are usually unwanted in oils, and therefore likely fuels, due to their environmental toxicity and tendency to cause catalyst poisoning and corrosion during oil production and refining. [5] Alcohols: Methanol (MeOH) Ethanol (EtOH); see also Common ethanol fuel mixtures; Isopropyl alcohol (IPA) n-Butanol (BuOH) Gasoline grade tert ...

  6. Causality - Wikipedia

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    Causality is an influence by which one event, process, state, or object (a cause) contributes to the production of another event, process, state, or object (an effect) where the cause is at least partly responsible for the effect, and the effect is at least partly dependent on the cause. [1]

  7. 'Bleeding Eye' Virus Sparks Travel Warning and Worldwide ...

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    Marburg is a rare but “severe hemorrhagic fever that can cause serious illness and death,” the U.S. Centers for Disease Control says, adding that there is no treatment or vaccine for it.

  8. Moral Injury: The Grunts - The Huffington Post

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    Can we imagine ourselves back on that awful day in the summer of 2010, in the hot firefight that went on for nine hours? Men frenzied with exhaustion and reckless exuberance, eyes and throats burning from dust and smoke, in a battle that erupted after Taliban insurgents castrated a young boy in the village, knowing his family would summon nearby Marines for help and the Marines would come ...

  9. Catalytic oxidation - Wikipedia

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    Catalyst Product Application sulfur dioxide: contact process: vanadium pentoxide (heterogeneous) sulfuric acid: fertilizer production ammonia: Ostwald process: platinum (heterogeneous) nitric acid: basic chemicals, TNT: hydrogen sulfide: Claus process: vanadium pentoxide (heterogeneous) sulfur: remediation of byproduct of oil refinery: methane ...