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In the Year 2889 ( La Journée d’un journaliste américain en 2889 in French) is an 1889 short story published under the name of Jules Verne, but now believed to be mainly the work of his son Michel Verne, based on his father's ideas. [ 1] The first publication was in English in February 1889, in the American magazine The Forum .
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Persol is an Italian luxury eyewear brand specializing in the manufacturing of sunglasses and optical frames. It is one of the oldest eyewear companies in the world and is owned by the Luxottica group. The name is derived from the Italian per il sole, meaning "for the sun". Formed in 1917 by Giuseppe Ratti, Persol originally catered to pilots ...
The Hall–Héroult process is the major industrial process for smelting aluminium. It involves dissolving aluminium oxide (alumina) (obtained most often from bauxite, aluminium 's chief ore, through the Bayer process) in molten cryolite and electrolyzing the molten salt bath, typically in a purpose-built cell. The Hall–Héroult process ...
A process control block (PCB), also sometimes called a process descriptor, is a data structure used by a computer operating system to store all the information about a process. When a process is created (initialized or installed), the operating system creates a corresponding process control block, which specifies and tracks the process state (i ...
Benzoyl peroxide is a chemical compound (specifically, an organic peroxide) with structural formula (C6H5−C (=O)O−)2, often abbreviated as (BzO) 2. In terms of its structure, the molecule can be described as two benzoyl ( C6H5−C (=O)−, Bz) groups connected by a peroxide ( −O−O− ). It is a white granular solid with a faint odour of ...
Using a stand-in caddie, Matsuyama then went out and staked himself to a five-shot lead on Sunday before nearly completely blowing it … and then rallying for two birdies on the final two holes ...
The history of the periodic table is also a history of the discovery of the chemical elements. The first person in recorded history to discover a new element was Hennig Brand, a bankrupt German merchant. Brand tried to discover the philosopher's stone —a mythical object that was supposed to turn inexpensive base metals into gold.