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  2. Victory lap (academia) - Wikipedia

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    The term Grade 13 is also used to refer to a victory lap in Ontario. [1] [2] Grade 13 was previously an academic grade in Ontario secondary schools, offered from 1921 to 1988. In 1988, Grade 13 was reorganized into the Ontario Academic Credit, which continued to be offered until 2003. After 2003, Ontario's secondary schools formally offered ...

  3. List of life sciences - Wikipedia

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    Biology is the overall natural science that studies life, with the other life sciences as its sub-disciplines. Some life sciences focus on a specific type of organism. For example, zoology is the study of animals, while botany is the study of plants. Other life sciences focus on aspects common to all or many life forms, such as anatomy and ...

  4. Louis Bouveault - Wikipedia

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    Louis Bouveault (11 February 1864 – 5 September 1909) was a French scientist who became professor of organic chemistry at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Paris. He is known for the Bouveault aldehyde synthesis and the Bouveault–Blanc reduction .

  5. The Science of Life - Wikipedia

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    Wells's most recent biographer notes that The Science of Life "is not quite as dated as one might suppose". [5] In undertaking The Science of Life, H. G. Wells, who had published The Outline of History a decade earlier, selling over two million copies, desired the same sort of treatment for biology. He thought of his readership as "the ...

  6. What Is Life? - Wikipedia

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    What Is Life? The Physical Aspect of the Living Cell is a 1944 science book written for the lay reader by the physicist Erwin Schrödinger.The book was based on a course of public lectures delivered by Schrödinger in February 1943, under the auspices of the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, where he was Director of Theoretical Physics, at Trinity College, Dublin.

  7. Biotechnology - Wikipedia

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    A biologist conducting research in a biotechnology laboratory. Biotechnology is a multidisciplinary field that involves the integration of natural sciences and engineering sciences in order to achieve the application of organisms and parts thereof for products and services.

  8. Wear coefficient - Wikipedia

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    The steady-state wear equation was proposed as: [2] = where is the Brinell hardness expressed as Pascals, is the volumetric loss, is the normal load, and is the sliding distance.

  9. Extrusive rock - Wikipedia

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    Original source: * Le Maitre, R.W. (ed.); 1989: A classification of igneous rocks and glossary of terms, Blackwell Science, Oxford. A volcanic rock from Italy with a relatively large six-sided phenocryst (diameter about 1 mm) surrounded by a fine-grained groundmass , as seen in thin section under a petrographic microscope