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  • ...in the Balling scale and introduced the [[Brix]] scale. In the early 1900s German chemist [[Fritz Plato]] (1858-1938) and his collaborators made further impr In mid-19th century England, the use of letter "X" and other ones had evolved into a standardiz ...
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  • In the 19th and 20th centuries, [[Russia]] produced many notable [[List of Russian scie At the start of the 18th century the [[Reforms of Peter I of Russia|reforms of Peter the Great]] (founder of ...
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  • ...th-century English—an overview |url=https://public.oed.com/blog/nineteenth-century-english-an-overview/ |access-date=7 November 2020 |website=Oxford English D ...st=Badash |first=Lawrence |date=1972 |title=The completeness of nineteenth-century science |url=https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdfplus/10.1086/350840 | ...
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  • ...|Columba]] is a small, faint [[constellation]] named in the late sixteenth century. Its name is [[Latin]] for [[dove]]. It is located just south of [[Canis Ma ...aint constellation in the [[southern sky]], first defined in the late 16th century. Its name means "no feet" in Greek, and it represents a [[bird-of-paradise] ...
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  • [[Nuclear fission]] was discovered in December 1938 by chemists [[Otto Hahn]] and [[Fritz Strassmann]] and physicists [[Lise Meitner]] and In the last years of the 19th century, scientists frequently experimented with the [[cathode-ray tube]], which by ...
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  • ...actions. The system became the standard of France and Europe within half a century. Other measures with unity ratios<ref group="Note">ratios of 1 between mag ...ts for length, mass and time. Advances in [[electromagnetism]] in the 19th century necessitated additional units to be defined, and multiple incompatible syst ...
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  • ...ermodynamic work, the caloric theory was, around the end of the eighteenth century, replaced by the "mechanical" theory of heat, which is accepted today. === 17th century–early 18th century === ...
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  • ...ysics)|period]] of [[Cepheid]] [[variable stars]] at the beginning of 20th century. ...chemistry: their changing roles from alchemical times to the mid-twentieth century|last=F.|first=Rayner-Canham, Marelene|date=1998|publisher=American Chemical ...
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  • ...ved to Boreham Road, Warminster, where houses were built in the early 19th century.{{R|"Warminster and Westbury Journal 11 July 1903"|"Wiltshire Times 9 Augus ...ere attending the County School.{{R|"Wiltshire Times 28 November 1914"}} [[German invasion of Belgium (1914)|Germany had invaded Belgium]] on 4{{Nbsp}}August ...
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  • ..., who made extensive use of this special case of Taylor series in the 18th century.}} ...'''[[Mass number]]'''}}{{defn|defn=The mass number (symbol ''A'', from the German word ''Atomgewicht'' [atomic weight]),<ref>[[Jensen, William B.]] (2005). T ...
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