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  2. List of fictional elements, materials, isotopes and subatomic ...

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    any element, but most commonly potassium: Babylon 5: Rare and expensive; used in jumpgates; forms when ordinary matter is subject to the stresses of a supernova, pushing some of its electron pair-bonds into hyperspace. The most commonly found form derives from 40 K, giving quantium-40. The name was coined by David Strauss in response to a ...

  3. List of physical constants - Wikipedia

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    The constants listed here are known values of physical constants expressed in SI units; that is, physical quantities that are generally believed to be universal in nature and thus are independent of the unit system in which they are measured. Many of these are redundant, in the sense that they obey a known relationship with other physical ...

  4. The Periodic Table of Science Fiction - Wikipedia

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    Each story is named after an element in the periodic table, including the then-undiscovered element 117. The stories were commissioned to run on Eileen Gunn's The Infinite Matrix [1] but were published in the Sci Fiction section of SciFi.com, between 2001 and 2003. [2]

  5. The 50 Best Science Fiction Books to Give You the ... - AOL

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    Named after a problem in physics, Three-Body definitely puts the "science" in science fiction. Maybe one of the most famous works of Chinese sci-fi, it's also lauded by George R.R. Martin and ...

  6. List of mathematical constants - Wikipedia

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    [0; 4, 4, 8, 16, 18, 5, 1, 1, 1, 1, 7, 1, 1, 6, 2, 9, 58, 1, 3, 4, …] [OEIS 100] Computed up to 1 011 597 392 terms by E. Weisstein. He also noted that while the Champernowne constant continued fraction contains sporadic large terms, the continued fraction of the Copeland–Erdős Constant do not exhibit this property. [Mw 85] Base 10 ...

  7. Materials science in science fiction - Wikipedia

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    Materials science in science fiction is the study of how materials science is portrayed in works of science fiction.The accuracy of the materials science portrayed spans a wide range – sometimes it is an extrapolation of existing technology, sometimes it is a physically realistic portrayal of a far-out technology, and sometimes it is simply a plot device that looks scientific, but has no ...

  8. List of materials properties - Wikipedia

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    A material property is an intensive property of a material, i.e., a physical property or chemical property that does not depend on the amount of the material. These quantitative properties may be used as a metric by which the benefits of one material versus another can be compared, thereby aiding in materials selection.

  9. The Periodic Table (Basher book) - Wikipedia

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    The book is arranged in eleven chapters plus an introduction, and includes a poster in the back of the book. Each chapter is on a different group of the periodic table (hydrogen, the alkali metals, the alkaline earth metals, the transition metals, the boron elements, the carbon elements, the nitrogen elements, the oxygen elements, the halogen ...