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  2. List of colossal squid specimens and sightings - Wikipedia

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    Main references – The most important sources, typically ones that provide extensive data on a particular specimen (often primary sources). Presented in author–date parenthetical referencing style, with page numbers included where applicable (page numbers in square brackets refer either to unpaginated works or English translations of ...

  3. X-ray - Wikipedia

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    Natural color X-ray photogram of a wine scene. Note the edges of hollow cylinders as compared to the solid candle. William Coolidge explains medical imaging and X-rays.. An X-ray (also known in many languages as Röntgen radiation) is a form of high-energy electromagnetic radiation with a wavelength shorter than those of ultraviolet rays and longer than those of gamma rays.

  4. List of lingua francas - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of lingua francas.A lingua franca is a language systematically used to make communication possible between people not sharing a first language, in particular when it is a third language, distinct from both speakers' first languages.

  5. X-ray reflectivity - Wikipedia

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    X-ray reflectivity (sometimes known as X-ray specular reflectivity, X-ray reflectometry, or XRR) is a surface-sensitive analytical technique used in chemistry, physics, and materials science to characterize surfaces, thin films and multilayers.

  6. Energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy - Wikipedia

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    Energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDS, EDX, EDXS or XEDS), sometimes called energy dispersive X-ray analysis (EDXA or EDAX) or energy dispersive X-ray microanalysis (EDXMA), is an analytical technique used for the elemental analysis or chemical characterization of a sample. It relies on an interaction of some source of X-ray excitation and ...

  7. Astrophysical X-ray source - Wikipedia

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    The X-ray colors represent the temperature of the X-ray emission from each star: hot stars are blue-white and cooler stars are yellow-red. The brightest object in the optical image is the full moon, which is also in the X-ray image. The X-ray image was actually obtained by the ROSAT satellite during the All-Sky Survey phase in 1990–1991.

  8. Tycho (lunar crater) - Wikipedia

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    based on LRO data. For more, see album. flickr (artificial images). NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day: Eclipsed Moon in Infrared (8 November 2003) NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day: Tycho and Copernicus: Lunar Ray Craters (5 March 2005) NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day: Sunrise at Tycho (4 January 2013)

  9. Industrial Revolution - Wikipedia

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    The Industrial Revolution, sometimes divided into the First Industrial Revolution and Second Industrial Revolution, was a period of global transition of the human economy towards more widespread, efficient and stable manufacturing processes that succeeded the Agricultural Revolution.