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Fat +acid= Fatty Acid

a: Fatty acid ~
b: alkane or alkene with a COOH

What: "It will react with an acid to form a fatty acid. A fatty acid is like an alkane or alkene with a COOH on the end."

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Writer: jwray
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Date: May 7 2013 5:01 PM



a: Dashpot ~
b: resistor

What: "Compared to electrical circuits, the motor is like a battery, the spring is like a capacitor, the mass is like an inductor, and the dashpot is like a resistor."

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Writer: Todd
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Date: Oct 1 2013 11:49 AM



a: homosexual marriage ~
b: stopping a bus and

What:

"If homosexuality is not a choice - if it exists as a result of biological forces -- then a ban on homosexual marriage is like stopping a bus, separating the passengers into groups of "white" and "black" and executing the blacks. "


"If homosexuality is a choice - if it is a freely selected system of values - then a ban on homosexual marriage is like stopping a bus, separating the passengers into groups of "Shiite" and "Sunni", and executing the Sunni."


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Writer: Alonzo Fyfe
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Date: Jan 17 2014 4:35 PM



a: oligodendrocytes ~
b: delicate roses climbing over a lattice of neurons

What:

"From one cell, oligo begins to grow within the brain. If healthy oligodendrocytes are like delicate roses climbing over a lattice of neurons, the cancerous oligo is a choking vine: In its metastatic stages, it interweaves tendrils through healthy brain tissue so tightly that removing the tumor means removing healthy tissue as well - essentially bulldozing the lattice and the roses with it. Then irradiating the vines. Then spraying the vines with chemicals. And hoping that there aren't any vine roots alive to grow back."


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Writer: Michael Rodio
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Date: Mar 5 2015 5:10 PM



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