General science

General science

A variety of science subjects concerning the fundamental knowledge about different aspects of our world and their underlying principles.

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Apical dominance

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Correlative inhibition of the growth of lateral (axillary) shoots exerted by the growing apical bud of the plant stem. Partial or complete apical dominance can also occur in the initiation of ...

Benign and malignant lesions of the human mammary glands. Benign breast disorders are often symptomatic and bothersome but do not have malignant potential. Malignant disorders have the potential to ...

Sea ice

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Ice formed by the freezing of seawater. Ice in the sea includes sea ice, river ice, and land ice. Land ice is principally icebergs which are prominent in some areas, such as the Ross Sea and Baffin ...

Forensic document analysis

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Forensic document analysis, or forensic document examination as it is often called, is one of the oldest fields of forensic science. The examination of contested documents in North America gained ...

De Haas-van Alphen effect

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An oscillatory behaviour of the magnetic moment of a pure metal crystal with changes in the applied magnetic field B , at very low temperatures. It is named after its discoverers W. J. de Haas and ...

Flux-compression generators

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Flux-compression (or magnetic cumulative) generators provide a compact and relatively inexpensive source of energy for use in experimentation at remote sites or in situations where a capacitor bank ...

Neutral currents

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Exchange currents which carry no electric charge and mediate certain types of electroweak interactions. The discovery of the neutral-current weak interactions and the agreement of their ...