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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of equilibrate.
  • adjective Subject to equilibration

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  • The entire Theory of the Atmospheric CO2 Greenhouse Effect is founded on pseudo-science and a series of falsehoods and impossibilities that date back to Fourier (1824), Tyndall (1861), and Arrhenius (1896), and essentially describes a fictitious mechanism, in which a planetary atmosphere acts as a heat pump driven by an environment that is radiatively interacting with but radiatively equilibrated to the atmospheric system.

    Climate Change Czar Carol Browner on Hacked Emails: ‘Who Cares?’ - Vladimir’s blog - RedState 2009

  • The atmospheric greenhouse effect, an idea that many authors trace back to the traditional works of Fourier (1824), Tyndall (1861), and Arrhenius (1896), and which is still supported in global climatology, essentially describes a fictitious mechanism, in which a planetary atmosphere acts as a heat pump driven by an environment that is radiatively interacting with but radiatively equilibrated to the atmospheric system.

    Rabett Run EliRabett 2009

  • Your body and metabolism have to become equilibrated with your new exercise routine, that takes time.

    Artifical Sweeteners & The Like JLK 2009

  • The atmospheric greenhouse effect, an idea that many authors trace back to the traditional works of Fourier (1824), Tyndall (1861), and Arrhenius (1896), and which is still supported in global climatology, essentially describes a fictitious mechanism, in which a planetary atmosphere acts as a heat pump driven by an environment that is radiatively interacting with but radiatively equilibrated to the atmospheric system.

    Archive 2009-03-01 EliRabett 2009

  • The same study also found that in the period right after surgery, death rates were as much as 27% higher in the U.K. and Ireland than in the U.S., although differences in longer-term outcomes equilibrated once patients survived the first year of their transplant.

    Edwards and Organ Transplants 2008

  • Since baryogenesis is now over, it is imperative that baryon number violation be small enough at this temperature in the broken phase, otherwise any baryonic excess generated will be equilibrated to zero.

    Matter v Antimatter II: Electroweak Baryogenesis Mark 2008

  • Austrians concerned with market processes should immediately note the impossibility of a perfectly equilibrated market in loanable funds.

    Is Buffet a Misesian? - The Austrian Economists 2008

  • Austrians concerned with market processes should immediately note the impossibility of a perfectly equilibrated market in loanable funds.

    Is Buffet a Misesian? - The Austrian Economists 2008

  • While import and output of livestock products was generally equilibrated in 2000, the export of meat products accounted for 7% of domestic outputs and was responsible for 8% of animal wastes emission, as weighted by phosphorus content.

    Phosphorus use in China 2007

  • The style, which simultaneously maximizes fussiness and vagueness — verbal operatives tend to be so abstract that almost anything can be related to, equilibrated with, adequated to anything else — caused me at last to mourn for Wordsworth.

    'At the Far End of this Ongoing Enterprise...' 2005

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