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  2. Final Fantasy XIV - Wikipedia

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    Final Fantasy XIV [c] is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) developed and published by Square Enix.Directed and produced by Naoki Yoshida and released worldwide for PlayStation 3 and Windows in August 2013, it replaced the failed 2010 version, with subsequent support for PlayStation 4, macOS, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X/S.

  3. Lignum vitae - Wikipedia

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    Lignum vitae is hard and durable, and is also the densest wood traded (average dried density: ~79 lb/ft 3 or ~1,260 kg/m 3); [4] it will easily sink in water. On the Janka scale of hardness, which measures hardness of woods, lignum vitae ranks highest of the trade woods, with a Janka hardness of 4,390 lbf (compared with Olneya at 3,260 lbf, [5] African blackwood at 2,940 lbf, hickory at 1,820 ...

  4. List of fictional elements, materials, isotopes and subatomic ...

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    (So, the predicessor of Star Trek's "transparent aluminum" as well as Larry Niven's "Puppeteer GP hulls," also similar to Jaques Cousteau's using the profits from patenting the scuba aqualung, in order to outfit his (non-fictional) 1950 research ship RV Calypso.) The later TV series lacked the transparent-hull concept, where instead the ...

  5. Ammonium alum - Wikipedia

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    Ammonium aluminium sulfate, also known as ammonium alum or just alum (though there are many different substances also called "alum"), is a white crystalline double sulfate usually encountered as the dodecahydrate, formula (NH 4)Al(SO 4) 2 ·12H 2 O.

  6. Naoki Yoshida - Wikipedia

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    Yoshida decided to work on video games in elementary school. His career choice was influenced by two Nintendo Entertainment System games: Mario Bros. shocked him with the idea that people could control what was shown on television and the possibilities of multiplayer design; Dragon Quest III made him want to become a writer due to how engrossed he became by its story, more so than those of ...

  7. List of chemical elements - Wikipedia

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    118 chemical elements have been identified and named officially by IUPAC.A chemical element, often simply called an element, is a type of atom which has a specific number of protons in its atomic nucleus (i.e., a specific atomic number, or Z).

  8. Alum - Wikipedia

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    The site was abandoned during the 7th century CE, but dates back at least to the 2nd century CE. Native alumen from the island of Melos appears to have been a mixture mainly of alunogen (Al 2 (SO 4) 3 ·17 H 2 O) with potassium alum and other minor sulfates. [7]

  9. Hybrid wood - Wikipedia

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    Hybrid wood or wood hybrid systems (WHS) is a multilayer composite material, composed on the surface of a skin made of composite wood adhering to an underneath structural core, in general aluminum. Invented in Japan in 2008, this technological evolution is based on wood composite technology which was conceived in 1972 by Sadao Nishibori [ 1 ...