General science

General science

A variety of science subjects concerning the fundamental knowledge about different aspects of our world and their underlying principles.

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shock syndrome

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A clinical condition caused by widespread impairment of blood flow resulting in an inadequate supply of oxygen to the body's tissues. Shock is a sudden and progressive condition that, if not ...

epidemic viral gastroenteritis

A clinical syndrome characterized by acute infectious gastroenteritis with watery diarrhea, vomiting, malaise, and abdominal cramps with a relatively short incubation period (12–36 h) and duration ...

quartz clock

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A clock that makes use of the piezoelectric property of a quartz crystal. When a quartz crystal vibrates, a difference of electric potential is produced between two of its faces. The actual ...

hyperfine structure

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A closely spaced structure of the spectrum lines forming a multiplet component in the spectrum of an atom or molecule, or of a liquid or solid. In the emission spectrum for an atom, when a multiplet ...

fog

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A cloud comprising waterdroplets or (less commonly) ice crystals formed near the ground and resulting in a reduction in visibility to below 0.6 mi (1 km). This is lower than that occurring in mist, ...

carborane

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A cluster compound containing both carbon (C) and boron (B) atoms as well as hydrogen (H) atoms external to the framework of the cluster. A cluster compound is one with insufficient electrons to ...

coke

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A coherent, cellular, carbonaceous residue remaining from the dry (destructive) distillation of a coking coal. It contains carbon as its principal constituent, together with mineral matter and ...