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a: semiconductor ~
b: a raisin cake

What:

"A semiconductor is like a raisin cake, where the raisins give the cake the special flavor that makes it sell. By itself, a semiconductor can't really conduct electricity that well, but if you introduce impurities into it then those impurities turn it into a conductor. The impurities are called dopants, and electric current travels through doped silicon under the right conditions. Think of the dopant atoms as the raisins in the raisin cake, and the raw semiconductor material that's in between the dopant atoms as the cake in which the raisins sit."


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Writer: Jon Stokes
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Date: Mar 4 2014 1:57 PM



a: startups ~
b: music business

What:

"It's relatively easy to get a band together, or co-found a company, but each level of success becomes harder and harder. "


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Writer: Steve Case
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Date: Aug 5 2014 4:01 PM



a: hurt feelings ~
b: getting bruises

What:

"hurt feelings are like getting bruises but eventually they can build up and fester into a deep wound. defined as causing some kind of anguish or distress by verbal or non verbal communication. I have gotten in the habit of stress eating to soothe either by mints or gum or small candies. Actually working on breaking this bad habit-timely question! "


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Writer: Tracey Kaeser
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Date: Aug 9 2014 12:06 PM



a: myoblobin ~
b: hemoglobin for muscle

What:

If oxygen is money, then hemoglobin is a wallet with 4 dollars. The dollars can be spent anywhere in the body. Myoglobin is a wallet with 1 dollar and it, usually, is only spent in the muscle in which it is stored.


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Writer: Lucrezia
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Where: Reference Link Has Evaporated
Date: Jan 11 2015 10:49 AM



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