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  2. Ethylene - Wikipedia

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    Ethylene (IUPAC name: ethene) is a hydrocarbon which has the formula C 2 H 4 or H 2 C=CH 2.It is a colourless, flammable gas with a faint "sweet and musky" odour when pure. [7] It is the simplest alkene (a hydrocarbon with carbon–carbon double bonds).

  3. X Stands for Unknown - Wikipedia

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    'X ' Stands for Unknown is a collection of seventeen nonfiction science essays written by Isaac Asimov. It was the seventeenth of a series of books collecting essays from The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, these being first published between January 1982 and May 1983.

  4. List of science fiction themes - Wikipedia

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    Climate change—science fiction dealing with effects of anthropogenic climate change and global warming at the end of the Holocene era; Megacity; Pastoral science fictionscience fiction set in rural, bucolic, or agrarian worlds, either on Earth or on Earth-like planets, in which advanced technologies are downplayed. Seasteading and ocean ...

  5. List of fictional professors - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of professors appearing throughout fiction. Literature. Novel or literary work ... science chemistry: Goosebumps series: R. L. Stine: Professor Eric Crane

  6. Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons - Wikipedia

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    "Science Fiction" - Vonnegut's reflections on writing science fiction. [2]"Brief Encounters on the Inland Waterway" (1966) - This recounts a journey from Massachusetts to Florida on the Kennedy yacht crewing for their captain, Frank Wirtanen (whose name had been borrowed for the character of an American intelligence officer in Mother Night).

  7. Ethylenediamine - Wikipedia

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    Ethylenediamine (abbreviated as en when a ligand) is the organic compound with the formula C 2 H 4 (NH 2) 2.This colorless liquid with an ammonia-like odor is a basic amine.It is a widely used building block in chemical synthesis, with approximately 500,000 tonnes produced in 1998. [6]

  8. View from a Height - Wikipedia

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    View from a Height is a collection of seventeen scientific essays by American writer and scientist Isaac Asimov. It was the second of a series of books collecting essays from The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, written between 1959 and 1962. It was first published by Doubleday & Company in 1963. The book received a review in Science ...

  9. Science Fiction Literature through History: An Encyclopedia

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    Science Fiction Literature through History: An Encyclopedia is a 2021 reference work written by science fiction scholar Gary Westfahl and published by ABC-Clio/Greenwood.The book contains eight essays on the history of science fiction, eleven thematic essays on how different topics relate to science fiction, and 250 entries on various science fiction subgenres, authors, works, and motifs.