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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. 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 ...

  4. Fact and Fancy - Wikipedia

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    Fact and Fancy is a collection of seventeen scientific essays by American writer and scientist Isaac Asimov. It was the first in a series of books collecting his essays from The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, and Asimov's second book of science essays altogether (after Only a Trillion). Doubleday & Company first published it in March ...

  5. 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]

  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. Ubik - Wikipedia

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    Ubik (/ ˈ juː b ɪ k / YOO-bik) is a 1969 science fiction novel by American writer Philip K. Dick.The story is set in a future 1992 where psychic powers are utilized in corporate espionage, while cryonic technology allows recently deceased people to be maintained in a lengthy state of hibernation. [1]

  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. The Road to Infinity - Wikipedia

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    The Road to Infinity is a collection of seventeen scientific essays by American writer and scientist Isaac Asimov. [1] It was the fourteenth [citation needed] of a series of books collecting Asimov's science essays from The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. It also included a list of all of Asimov's essays in that magazine up to 1979.