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  2. Silver nitrate - Wikipedia

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    Silver nitrate is an inorganic compound with chemical formula AgNO 3. It is a versatile precursor to many other silver compounds, such as those used in photography. It is far less sensitive to light than the halides. [citation needed] It was once called lunar caustic because silver was called luna by ancient alchemists who associated silver ...

  3. Silver compounds - Wikipedia

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    Some silver oxide powder.. Silver is a relatively unreactive metal, although it can form several compounds. The common oxidation states of silver are (in order of commonness): +1 (the most stable state; for example, silver nitrate, AgNO 3); +2 (highly oxidising; for example, silver(II) fluoride, AgF 2); and even very rarely +3 (extreme oxidising; for example, potassium tetrafluoroargentate(III ...

  4. Silver - Wikipedia

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    It was once called lunar caustic because silver was called luna by the ancient alchemists, who believed that silver was associated with the Moon. [47] [48] It is often used for gravimetric analysis, exploiting the insolubility of the heavier silver halides which it is a common precursor to. [27]

  5. Lunar caustic - Wikipedia

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    Pages for logged out editors learn more. Contributions; Talk; Lunar caustic

  6. Pearcey integral - Wikipedia

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    The Pearcey integral is a class of canonical diffraction integrals, often used in wave propagation and optical diffraction problems [2] The first numerical evaluation of this integral was performed by Trevor Pearcey using the quadrature formula. [3] [4] Reflective caustic generated from a circle and parallel rays.

  7. Fundamental ephemeris - Wikipedia

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    A fundamental ephemeris of the Solar System is a model of the objects of the system in space, with all of their positions and motions accurately represented. It is intended to be a high-precision primary reference for prediction and observation of those positions and motions, and which provides a basis for further refinement of the model.

  8. Caustic (mathematics) - Wikipedia

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    Reflective caustic generated from a circle and parallel rays. On one side, each point is contained in three light rays; on the other side, each point is contained in one light ray. In differential geometry, a caustic is the envelope of rays either reflected or refracted by a manifold. It is related to the concept of caustics in geometric optics ...

  9. Free-return trajectory - Wikipedia

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    Sketch of a circumlunar free return trajectory (not to scale), plotted on the rotating reference frame rotating with the moon. (Moon's motion only shown for clarity) In orbital mechanics, a free-return trajectory is a trajectory of a spacecraft traveling away from a primary body (for example, the Earth) where gravity due to a secondary body (for example, the Moon) causes the spacecraft to ...