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  2. The Billion-Dollar Molecule - Wikipedia

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    The Billion-Dollar Molecule is a book [1] by journalist Barry Werth about the founding and early research efforts of the American biotechnology company Vertex Pharmaceuticals, which was founded in 1989 by Joshua Boger and was among the first biotechnology companies to adopt an explicit strategy of rational drug design as opposed to techniques based on combinatorial chemistry.

  3. Gegenschein - Wikipedia

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    Gegenschein is distinguished from zodiacal light by its high angle of reflection of the incident sunlight on the dust particles. It forms a slightly brighter elliptical spot of 8–10° across directly opposite the Sun within the dimmer band of zodiacal light and zodiac constellation. [ 2 ]

  4. Petersen graph - Wikipedia

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    Petersen graph as Kneser graph ,. The Petersen graph is the complement of the line graph of .It is also the Kneser graph,; this means that it has one vertex for each 2-element subset of a 5-element set, and two vertices are connected by an edge if and only if the corresponding 2-element subsets are disjoint from each other.

  5. Color wheel - Wikipedia

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    In his book Opticks, Isaac Newton presented a color circle to illustrate the relations between these colors. [5] The original color circle of Isaac Newton showed only the spectral hues and was provided to illustrate a rule for the color of mixtures of lights, that these could be approximately predicted from the center of gravity of the numbers of "rays" of each spectral color present ...

  6. Apex (geometry) - Wikipedia

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    In an isosceles triangle, the apex is the vertex where the two sides of equal length meet, opposite the unequal third side. [1] Here the point A is the apex. In a pyramid or cone, the apex is the vertex at the "top" (opposite the base). In a pyramid, the vertex is the point that is part of all the lateral faces, or where all the lateral edges ...

  7. RGB color model - Wikipedia

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    For the RGB model, this is represented by a cube using non-negative values within a 0–1 range, assigning black to the origin at the vertex (0, 0, 0), and with increasing intensity values running along the three axes up to white at the vertex (1, 1, 1), diagonally opposite black.

  8. Proof by contradiction - Wikipedia

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    An early occurrence of proof by contradiction can be found in Euclid's Elements, Book 1, Proposition 6: [7] If in a triangle two angles equal one another, then the sides opposite the equal angles also equal one another. The proof proceeds by assuming that the opposite sides are not equal, and derives a contradiction.

  9. Optical vortex - Wikipedia

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    Because of the twisting, the light waves at the axis itself cancel each other out. When projected onto a flat surface, an optical vortex looks like a ring of light, with a dark hole in the center. The vortex is given a number, called the topological charge, according to how many twists the light does in one wavelength. The number is always an ...