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41Solar and Heliospheric Observatory — Infobox Space telescope name = Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) caption = organization = ESA / NASA alt names = nssdc id = location = L1 orbit type = height = 1.5×106 km (heliocentric) period = 1 Earth year velocity = accel gravity =… …
42Laptev Sea — Basin countries Russia Surface area 700,000 km2 (270,000 sq mi) Average depth …
43Kobuk River — The Kobuk River is approximately convert|280|mi|km|0|lk=on long, located in the Arctic region of northwestern Alaska in the United States. [USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). [http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/f?p=gnispq:3:::NO… …
44Cryoprecipitate — Cryoprecipitate, also called Cryoprecipitated Antihemophilic Factor , Cryoprecipitated AHF , and most commonly just cryo , is a frozen blood product prepared from plasma. It is often transfused as a four to six unit pool instead of as a single… …
45Refrigerator — Fridge and Freezer redirect here. For other uses, see Fridge (disambiguation) and Freezer (disambiguation). For other uses, see Refrigerator (disambiguation). See also: Refrigeration A side by side refrigerator …
46Defrosting — (or thawing) is a procedure, performed periodically on refrigerators and freezers to maintain their operating efficiency. Over time, as the door is opened and closed, letting in new air, water vapour from the air condenses on the cooling elements …
47Brian Patten — (born 7 February 1946, Liverpool, Lancashire, England) is an English poet. Born in a working class neighbourhood near the docks, Patten left school at fifteen, and was hired by a private newspaper called The Bootle Times to write a column on… …
48Active layer — In environments containing permafrost, the active layer is the top layer of soil that thaws during the summer and freezes again during the autumn. In all climates, whether they contain permafrost or not, the temperature in the lower levels of the …
49Sperm donation — is the provision (or ‘donation’) by a man, (known as a ‘sperm donor’), of his sperm, with the intention that it be used to impregnate a woman who is not usually the man s sexual partner, in order to produce a child. A sperm donor is the natural… …
50Geology of the Falkland Islands — The geology of the Falkland Islands has its origins in events of more than 400 million years bp, before the Falkland Islands existed as separate entities, with the appearance of intruded dikes in the crust of the supercontinent Gondwana. The… …
