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In order to do this, he had to develop a sense of dropping movement and immediate halting that he was able to get from compiling these plate-like containers.
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(It has to do with the size of the silicon wafer, a dinner plate-like object that is cut up to make individual chips.)
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The red material contains grains approximately 100 nm across which are largely iron oxide, while aluminum is contained in tiny plate-like structures.
The Melting/Burning of the Twin Towers on 9/11-How It Was Done 2009
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The red layer contains plate-like aluminum components 40 nm in thickness mixed in a solidified matrix with highly uniform iron-rich rhomboid components [1].
Why the Harrit Nano-thermite paper has not yet been debunked 2009
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The shell is supported by a structure of vertebrae and plate-like ribs.
Turtle 2008
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I thought later on that it might be a partial diapophysis*, as those of brachiosaurids can descend ventrally from the side of the centrum as plate-like processes with smoothly convex lateral surfaces.
‘Angloposeidon’, the unreported story, part IV Darren Naish 2006
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Algae can be unicellular and microscopic or colonial forming plate-like colonies, thread-like filaments, net-like tubes, or hollow balls.
Phytoplankton 2008
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I thought later on that it might be a partial diapophysis*, as those of brachiosaurids can descend ventrally from the side of the centrum as plate-like processes with smoothly convex lateral surfaces.
Archive 2006-07-01 Darren Naish 2006
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Seriatopora sp. and Caulastrea sp., as well as massive Porites sp., plate-like Echinophyllia sp.,
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The deeper stretches of the steep drop-off show foliose or plate-like forms of Pachyseris, Leptoseris and Montipora at 20-30 m depth.
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