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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. List of fictional professors - Wikipedia

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    Science Court: H. Jon Benjamin (voice) Professor Nick Parsons: science The Secret Show: Rob Rackstraw (voice) Professor Professor: science The Simpsons: Hank Azaria (voice) Professor John Frink Jr. science Sliders: John Rhys-Davies: Professor Maximillian P. Arturo: cosmology and ontology Star Trek: The Next Generation: Brent Spiner: Lucasian ...

  6. Science Fiction Literature through History: An Encyclopedia

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    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. It received positive reviews, with critics finding it to be well-researched and useful for students in particular.

  7. 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 ...

  8. 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.

  9. Tunnel in the Sky - Wikipedia

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    Tunnel in the Sky is a juvenile science fiction novel by American writer Robert A. Heinlein, published in 1955 by Scribner's as one of the Heinlein juveniles.The story describes a group of students sent on a survival test to an uninhabited planet, who soon realise they are stranded there.