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Explosive

Explosive

1. An explosive agent; a compound or mixture susceptible of a rapid chemical reaction, as gunpowder, or nitro-glycerine.

2. A sound produced by an explosive impulse of the breath; one of consonants p, b, t, d, k, g, which are sounded with a sort of explosive power of voice.


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Re: Re:

... not go directly into our DNA cells. But apparently, there are high tritium bearers which do intensive and direct implanting of the dangerous "explosive" in DNA.

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by enarees
Wed Feb 23, 2011 5:15 pm
 
Forum: Human Biology
Topic: AIDS – a tritium disease?
Replies: 23
Views: 9195

Re: Question about viruses (particularly hiv)

... or munition: it has an intact casing (=protein capsule) and fuse (=proteins that recognize the target cell) but it lacks the most or all of the explosive material (=parts of the genome required for infection, or some enzymes that help the virus to be copied inside the target cell). So, the practice ...

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by biohazard
Mon Nov 01, 2010 7:48 am
 
Forum: Microbiology
Topic: Question about viruses (particularly hiv)
Replies: 25
Views: 37236

Re: Experimental evidence for evolution

... take on these numbers is just the opposite of yours. The first bacteria on Earth that could exploit an abundant energy source would have undergone explosive growth, since there would have been no competitors. Within a short time, the numbers of these bacteria would have dwarfed the number in the ...

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by StevePush
Thu Oct 21, 2010 3:57 pm
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Experimental evidence for evolution
Replies: 103
Views: 140919

sterilization in microwave oven

... nor safe. Not reliable because it is impossible to predict accurately what temperature will be reached before it starts boiling (usually "explosively") nor how long you can maintain the temperature. Meaning that for sterilization, you can't guarantee that enough time and heat has ...

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by canalon
Thu Sep 03, 2009 3:14 pm
 
Forum: Microbiology
Topic: sterilization in microwave oven
Replies: 28
Views: 81383

Closed Ecosystem

... in, be stable and self-sustainable. Plus I miss details on which plants/species/etc would be the best for this. What if an organism goes through explosive reproduction rate, resulting in cannabalism when there is no food left? Will the plant outgrow the jar? Fruitflies too dumb to not drown? ...

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by LexMortis
Mon Mar 30, 2009 8:16 pm
 
Forum: Ecology
Topic: Closed Ecosystem
Replies: 3
Views: 7618
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