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telephoto lens

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A photographic lens system specially designed to give a large image of a distant object in a camera of relatively short focal length. A telephoto lens generally consists of a ...

autoradiography

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A photographic technique used to localize a radioactive substance within a solid specimen; also known as radioautography.

phlogopite

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A phyllosilicate (sheet silicate) mineral with an ideal composition of KMg 3 (AlSi 3 )O 10 (OH) 2 . Phlogopite belongs to the mica mineral group.

dicyemida (rhombozoa)

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A phylum (also known as Rhombozoa) comprising approximately 100 described species of microscopic parasites that live in the renal sacs (kidneys) of many species of octopuses, some ...

ascomycota

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A phylum in the kingdom Fungi, representing the largest of the major groups of fungi, and distinguished by the presence of the ascus, a specialized saclike cell in which fusion of ...

basidiomycota

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A phylum in the kingdom fungi; commonly known as basidiomycetes. Basidiomycetes traditionally included four artificial classes: Hymenomycetes, Gasteromycetes, Urediniomycetes, ...

chaetognatha

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A phylum of abundant planktonic arrowworms. As adults they range in size from 0.2 to 4 in. (5 to 100 mm). Their bodies are tubular and transparent, and divided into three ...

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