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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of umbelliferous plants, of the tribe Ammineæ and subtribe Euammineæ.
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- noun perennial of wet and marshy places in the northern hemisphere: water parsnips
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Surprisingly i do aggree with RI on this one. it could be a manifestation of individualism. in a twisted way it does give the avaredge man a chance to distinct himself from the masses.well. if you discount the MILLIONS of people that use the game for that purpose that is. that does kinda create a Bo (e) sium strip kind-of-thing ..
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Treating China’s online addicts 2005
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Leone links Plato's cosmology to that of Moses, and Aristophanes 'myth in the Sympo - sium of the halving of man to the Hebrew story of man's creation in Genesis.
PLATONISM IN THE RENAISSANCE JOHN CHARLES NELSON 1968
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Another student of Plato, Matthew Arnold, on the other hand, unlike his literary colleagues, rejects the emphasis on love, rarely mentioning the Sympo - sium or Phaedrus, and can only be significantly Platonic in his religious and ethical views and in his rejection of materialism.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas JOHN FISHER 1968
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Following the supernova explosion, the hot residual core (consisting of such nuclei as iron, calcium, magne - sium, and free electrons) continued to contract, finally becoming a white dwarf of enormous density.
COSMOLOGY SINCE 1850 LLOYD MOTZ 1968
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Alcibiades 'image from the Sympo - sium, of Socrates as an ugly Silenus-box containing the sweetest perfume, was explicated by Erasmus in the
LITERARY PARADOX ROSALIE L. COLIE 1968
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This happens when calcium, magne boiler water treatment products such as chelates, sium and silica, common in most water supplies, polymers, and / or phosphates.
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First, it is passed through the cation ex - inlet water but still unsuitable for the boiler. change bed, where the cations (calcium, magne Lime softening treatment is followed by ei sium and sodium) are exchanged for hydrogen ther sodium cycle cation exchange or ion ex - ions.
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As stated before, a the removal of impurities, such as calcium, magne specific water treatment should be recommended sium and silica which, as discussed earlier, can cause by someone who has knowledge of both boiler scale.
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Potassa entirely free from water may be procured by other nieans besides the decomposition of the orange oxide of potassium, or the action of iron on common potash: for instance, by acting on potas - sium by a small quantity of water, or by heating potassium with common potash.
Elements of Chemical Philosophy: Part 1, Vol.1 Humphry Davy, Sir Humphry Davy 1812
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Numus inscriptns MA., typo capitis Dianae, et cervi, qnem Pellerinins Ephe - sium putavit, verisimilioa reddend«a est Massiliae GaUiae, in onjaa numia iidoia typi comparenr, jiF.
Doctrina nvmorvm vetervm conscripta a Josepho Eckhel .. Hohler, Emerich Thomas, 1781-1846. [from old catalog] 1792
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