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  Chemistry - Chemical element
However, atoms of the same element may differ in the number of neutrons, and are known as isotopes of the element.
The atomic mass of an element, A, is measured in atomic mass units (amu) and is roughly equal to the sum of the protons and neutrons in the nucleus of an atom of the element.
Atoms of the same element whose nuclei contain a different number of neutrons are said to be different isotopes of the element.
www.chemistrydaily.com /chemistry/Chemical_elements   (602 words)

  
  Chemical element
An element is a class of substances that contain the same number of protons in all its atoms.
The atomic mass of an element, A, is measured in unified atomic mass units (u) is the average mass of all the atoms of the element in an environment of interest (usually the earth's crust and atmosphere).
The 23 elements not found on earth are derived artificially; the first purportedly synthesized element was technetium, in 1937, although the trace amounts of naturally occurring technetium were not known then.
www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/c/ch/chemical_element.html   (1476 words)

  
 tScholars.com | Fictional elements, materials, isotopes and atomic particles   (Site not responding. Last check: )
A fictional element, material, isotope or atomic particle is a chemical element, material, isotope or (sub)atomic particles that exist only in works of fiction (usually fantasy or science fiction).
Toxic and mutagenic element, of indescribable colour and unknown spectrum, from a meteorite that lands in a field.
Green Kryptonite was established as the sole variety, element 126 on the periodic table of the elements, in John Byrne's retcon of the DC Comics universe.
www.tscholars.com /encyclopedia/Fictional_element   (5233 words)

  
 Science Fair Projects - Kryptonite
Silver Kryptonite - A fictional variety of kryptonite that was used in a hoax perpetrated by Superman's friends in honor of the 25th (silver) anniversary of Superman's arrival on Earth.
It is a mildly radioactive element that was formed in the crust of the planet Krypton as the result of an ancient Kryptonian war.
It is speculated that Kryptonite may be located in a hypothetical "island of stability" high on the periodic table, beyond the currently known unstable elements, in the vicinity of atomic number 150.
www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Kryptonite   (1823 words)

  
 Cascading Style Sheets, level 1
Elements with a 'display' property value of 'list-item' are formatted as block-level elements, but preceded by a list-item marker.
The left outer edge of a left-floating element may not be to the left of the left inner edge of its parent element.
The 'em' unit is relative to the element's font size: '1em' is equal to the size of the font in use.
www.w3.org /TR/REC-CSS1   (15136 words)

  
 HRC Conferences & Symposia   (Site not responding. Last check: )
After examining this claim about history and fiction and placing it in its proper context, I want to show that while it is understandable, it rests on a number of confusions and is, in the end, untenable.
If we are to evaluate these views about the relation between history and fiction it will be necessary to examine these concepts and their combination as they figure in the theories in question.
The criterion for distinguishing fiction from non-fiction is thus not that the former consists largely of statements that are untrue; rather, it is that these statements are intended by the author not to be true, and not to be taken as true, and are in fact not so taken by the audience as well.
cohesion.rice.edu /humanities/csc/conferences.cfm?doc_id=350   (4851 words)

  
 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Mort Weisinger   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Superman, nicknamed The Man of Steel, is a fictional character and superhero who first appeared in Action Comics #1 in 1938 and eventually became the most popular comic book hero of all time.
Weisinger may have held a very romantic and fannish view of editors of science fiction publications, one which depicted them as larger-than-life figures, holding the power of life or death over the careers of science fiction authors (themselves greater than human).
Weisinger retired from his role as Superman editor, and from comics, in 1970, where his old friend and fellow pulp-era science fiction fan Julius Schwartz would assume the role of Superman editor until his own retirement in the eighties.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Mort-Weisinger   (940 words)

  
 Selectors
Matches element E if E is the source anchor of a hyperlink of which the target is not yet visited (:link) or already visited (:visited).
It matches a P element that is a descendant of an LI; the LI element must be the child of an OL element; the OL element must be a descendant of a DIV.
Pseudo-classes classify elements on characteristics other than their name, attributes or content; in principle characteristics that cannot be deduced from the document tree.
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 Sunny Lemoine
Elements of her argument can be traced to her role as a theorist working in the established traditions of feminism and socialism.
I believe it is her commitment to an ongoing dialogue with other feminists that provides the impetus for her denunciation of a future entrenched in the teleology of traditional Western myths.
The importance of myth to Haraway incorporates both her belief in the cyborg as a fictional element that asserts the capacity to define consciousness and its relationship with the development of social conditions which expose the weaknesses and accessibility of previous ideologies.
www.stanford.edu /dept/HPS/critstudies/sunny.html   (907 words)

  
 Kryptonite is a fictional element fictional element from the Superman...
Kryptonite is a fictional element fictional element from the Superman...
Silver Kryptonite - A fictional variety of Kryptonite that was used in a hoax perpetrated by Superman's friends in honor of the 25th (silver silver) anniversary anniversary of Superman's arrival on Earth.
It is speculated that kryptonite may be located in a hypothetical "island of stability island of stability" high on the periodic table periodic table, beyond the currently known unstable elements, in the vicinity of atomic number atomic number 150.
www.biodatabase.de /kryptonite   (1365 words)

  
 NM&L (Fall 2003): A Primary Concern
The outcome of the case turned on an element of libel law often referred to as the "of and concerning" principle.
Braun concluded that the names of the character and the plaintiff were different, their physical descriptions not similar enough, and their jobs -- although both based in a library -- were different enough to conclude that the subject in the book was not a characterization of Carter-Clark, in the context of a libel action.
The court ruled that the salesmen had a cause of action, despite the use of the word "most" instead of "all." However, the saleswomen were not allowed to proceed in their libel action because their numbers were too large.
www.rcfp.org /news/mag/27-4/lib-aprimary.html   (1288 words)

  
 Fictional chemical substance - The Jiggies Reference Guide   (Site not responding. Last check: )
A fictional chemical substance is a chemical element, isotope, compound or mineral that exists only in works of fiction (usually fantasy or science fiction).
This page was originally several different pages, the largest being fictional elements, which were merged together and moved when the boundries between them began to blur.
Jumbonium from Futurama, each atom of this element is large enough to be easily visible to the naked eye, with marble-sized nucleons and electrons.
www.jiggies.com /reference/Fictional_element   (1003 words)

  
 Instructor
As we sample works representing the rich diversity of fiction, students will be guided in analyzing fiction’s major elements, such as plot, character, theme, point of view, setting, style, and symbol.
Biographies and critical commentaries by and about fiction writers and their literary works will acquaint students further with the contexts which have shaped the creation and reception of fiction.
Your group will be responsible for (1) illustrating and discussing how the author employs the six fictional elements, and (2) providing an evaluation of the section of the story you're assigned based on the criteria we established for evaluating narrative fiction earlier in the term.
web.cocc.edu /jagatucci/classes/Archive/Summer2004/Eng104/Syllabus/Eng104Summer2004.htm   (1480 words)

  
 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Battle on Hellfire Peninsula
Mount Hyjal Mount Hyjal is a fictional mountain found in the fantasy Warcraft Universe.
Computer and video game fictional element stubs Jump to: navigation, search World of Warcraft (commonly abbreviated as WoW) is a race/class-based massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) developed by Blizzard Entertainment.
In the fictional Warcraft Universe, Lady Vashj is a leader in the Naga ranks, and one of Illidans close confidants.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Battle-on-Hellfire-Peninsula   (1606 words)

  
 Fictional character: character featured fictional, famous fictional character, character dictionary fictional
A fictional character is any person, persona, identity, or entity whose existence originates from a fictional work or performance.
The most extreme ways of reading fictional characters would be to think of them exactly as real people or to think of them as purely artistic creations that have everything to do with craft and nothing to do with real life.
The classic example of this would be Freud's reading of Oedipus (and Hamlet, for that matter) as emblematic of the Oedipus complex (a child's fantasy of killing his father to possess his mother).
pandapedia.com /wiki/Fictional_character   (2462 words)

  
 Genre-form Guide (Motion Picture and Television Reading Room, Library ofCongress)
Since moving image works are inherently varied and unpredictable, any particular title may span or combine elements of several different genres, and so the use of multiple genre headings is encouraged.
For example, fictional genres are assumed to be dramatic unless combined with a type of comedy.
Forms are defined as the basic categories indicating a moving image work's original exhibition and release parameters (such as length and medium), and which are separate from its actual content, not necessarily implying a particular narrative construction.
www.loc.gov /rr/mopic/migintro.html   (2438 words)

  
 Howstuffworks "How Urban Legends Work"
This fictional story is a quintessential urban legend, an incredible tale passed from one person to another as truth.
Generally speaking, an urban legend is any modern, fictional story, told as truth, that reaches a wide audience by being passed from person to person.
While these "facts" don't always have the narrative elements of traditional legend, they are passed from person to person and frequently have the elements of caution, horror or humor found in legends.
www.howstuffworks.com /urban-legend.htm   (677 words)

  
 Fictional chemical substance
This element came from a meteor and was used in a doomsday bomb.
Technically not a fictional drug, so much as one that has no intoxicating effect on humans as Discworld trolls are silicon based lifeforms.
Slab is described as being a mixture of chloric ammonium and radium.
www.faqfolio.com /faqfolio/f/fi/fictional_chemical_substance.html   (1644 words)

  
 Half-Real: A Dictionary of Video Game Theory
Note that a fiction does not need to be a story, and that video games are generally fictions, but not stories.
Gameplay can be seen as independent of graphics or fiction, but fiction plays a large role in helping players understand the game.
The fictional time can be either a projection of the player's actions or created by way of cut-scenes.
www.half-real.net /dictionary   (3704 words)

  
 Spartanburg SC | GoUpstate.com | Spartanburg Herald-Journal   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Ice-nine: is a fictional material conceived by science fiction writer Kurt Vonnegut in his novel Cat's Cradle.
It is supposed to be a special allotrope of ice that, when it comes into contact with liquid water, acts as a crystal "seed", and will catalyze the solidification (freezing) of any normal water at ambient temperatures—thus being capable of destroying the world as we know it.
The isotope solinium 2 is used in the devastating bio-bombs used to destroy all living tissue in an area without changing the landscape.
www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Fictional_element   (778 words)

  
 Raymond's Reviews #00151 (Thu Jan 16 23:39:17 EST 1992)   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Kellogg's heroine, Gwinn, yearns to be an artist, but the city where she lives has outlawed art, and it is very rare for citizens of one city to travel to or be accepted by another community.
Moreover, by minimizing the science fictional element, Kellogg dodges the very ethical issues that the novel seems to address.
If Kellogg wishes to write science fiction, she should take a lesson from Heinlein, or Clarke, or even Harlan Ellison, and make sure that the ethical choices she poses for her characters arise from the technology they've adopted.
www.catb.org /%7Eesr/sfreviews/RR00151.html   (572 words)

  
 artifacts of compression
Of course there is an element of fiction inherent in making a computer, or a computer cursor out of needlepoint.
The fictional element (colorful pattern, third dimension) of the realization of these objects is the "artifact" of this compressive experience-the mutation that occurs as a byproduct of our brain editing and adding information.
It is a new, unfamiliar element similar to the visual noise and artifacts, which result from.jpeg image compression.
www.benjaminter.net /artifacts.htm   (371 words)

  
 Kryptonite - Memory Alpha, the Star Trek Wiki
The element Kryptonite had the symbol "Kr" which is the same atomic symbol used for Krypton.
It is named after the fictional element from stories of Superman published by DC Comics.
For what it is worth, the DC version of Kryptonite is number 126 on the table (a position held by as-yet undiscovered element provisionally named Unbihexium, Ubh).
www.memory-alpha.org /en/index.php?title=Kryptonite&printable=yes   (125 words)

  
 Online Homework Chapter 4 (B ver.)
A fictional element has two isotopes, each making up 50% of the population.
The atomic mass of the fictional element is:
A fictional element has two isotopes and an atomic mass of 87.08 amu.
faculty.ntcc.edu /btrickey/Homework/Chapter4b.htm   (269 words)

  
 A Glossary of Terms Useful in Critiquing Science Fiction
A Chekhov's gun is a fictional element (threat, character, mystery, prize, challenge) introduced early and with fanfare and in which the author expects the reader to invest.
Science fiction has more overhead than mainstream fiction: the author is building a world that does not exist so as to stage something which cannot be illustrated in the world that does exist.
Thus a critic will often note an element in a story with a recommendation that it either to pumped up to play in the themes or plot (use it) or that it be deleted (lose it).
www.sfwa.org /writing/glossary.html   (8194 words)

  
 Participatory Bible Study - Interpreting Stories
Nonetheless, a large portion of the Bible consists of stories, and often those elements that are not themselves stories suggest a background story (1 Corinthians, for example, clearly responds to some specific events and incidents and interpreters find it helpful to try to figure out what these were).
By "fictionalized" I mean that a true story has been adjusted in details to help make the point that the narrator desired.
This is not to suggest that any specific story is fictional or fictionalized, but it would be most common for parables to have a fictional element.
energion.com /rpp/interpret_stories.php   (2237 words)

  
 CSS Pseudo-classes and pseudo-elements
In CSS1, style is normally attached to an element based on its position in the document structure.
Some common typographical effects are associated not with structural elements but rather with typographical items as formatted on the canvas.
The rest of the first line (as formatted on the canvas) would be blue while the rest of the paragraph would be red.
css-menus.com /CSS-Pseudo-classes-and-pseudo-elements.html   (1303 words)

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