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    The RaLa Experiment, or RaLa, was a series of tests during and after the Manhattan Project designed to study the behavior of converging shock waves to...
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    heading the group at the Los Alamos Laboratory that carried out the RaLa Experiments. After the war, he was recruited by Jerrold Zacharias at MIT, where...
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    the behavior of converging shock waves, Robert Serber devised the RaLa Experiment, which used the short-lived radioisotope lanthanum-140, a potent source...
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    the behavior of converging shock waves, Robert Serber devised the RaLa Experiment, which used the short-lived radioisotope lanthanum-140, a potent source...
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  • An experiment is a procedure carried out to support or refute a hypothesis, or determine the efficacy or likelihood of something previously untried. Experiments...
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    satisfactory implosion. One of the most important tests was the series of RaLa Experiments. Initially, a 32 "point" assembly was used (each of which had a pair...
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  • LaRa (Lander Radioscience) is a Belgian radio science experiment that will be placed onboard Kazachok, planned to be launched in 2022. LaRa will monitor...
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    neutron-reflective capability). Fat Man used an aluminium pusher. The series of RaLa Experiment tests of implosion-type fission weapon design concepts, carried out...
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  • It was used in high quantities during the Manhattan Project for the RaLa Experiments. Some radionuclides, such as cobalt-60 and iridium-192, are made by...
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    radioactive gases; the RaLa Experiments, which used quantities of highly radioactive materials; and critical assembly experiments, which were particularly...
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    A thought experiment is a hypothetical situation in which a hypothesis, theory, or principle is laid out for the purpose of thinking through its consequences...
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    isolation. The experiment was conceived by Mexican anthropologist Santiago Genovés, who had previously been a crew member of Thor Heyerdahl's Ra expedition...
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    success of the implosion-type nuclear weapon. He also supervised the RaLa Experiments. Alvarez later wrote that: With modern weapons-grade uranium, the background...
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  • ROOT RRKM theory RT (energy) RX J0806.3+1527 R (cross section ratio) RaLa Experiment Rabbit (nuclear engineering) Rabi cycle Rabi frequency Rabi problem...
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    Laboratory in New Mexico. He was part of the committee that oversaw the RaLa Experiments, and worked out the chemical procedures for separating 100 curies (3...
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  • copes with experiment better than classical mechanics. For instance, postulate 2 explains the results of the Michelson–Morley experiment. Moreover, the...
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    Field experiments are experiments carried out outside of laboratory settings. They randomly assign subjects (or other sampling units) to either treatment...
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    resulting from fermentation process. Pla ra was a common food in the Ayutthaya Kingdom. The French diplomat Simon de la Loubère, who visited Siam during the...
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    with Sun Ra, who incorporated the OVC into the Arkestra from 1978 to 1980 and experimented on video applications from 1981 to 1987. Sun Ra's world view...
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  • Autonomous University of Mexico. He designed the 1973 "Peace Project" experiment, in which he and ten other people (four men and six women) aimed to sail...
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    The Sodium Reactor Experiment was a pioneering nuclear power plant built by Atomics International at the Santa Susana Field Laboratory near Simi Valley...
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    unknown artifact. Hayflick teamed with Paul Moorhead for the definitive experiment to eliminate these as causative factors. As a skilled cytogeneticist,...
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    with: Alpha-synuclein, Amphiphysin, BIN1, CDC42, PEA15, Protein kinase N1 RALA, and RHOA. Calphostin-c, an inhibitor VU-0359595: 1,700-fold selective versus...
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    the walls were not disturbed during the experiment and the air contained few spores). In another experiment, mice showed no ill effects despite being...
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    often created to attempt to ease the dryness. Experiment on smoking correlations: In 2002, an experiment was done and published by the American College...
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    Ralph Bagnold (redirect from R.A. Bagnold)
    R.A. 1940. Beach formation by waves: some model experiments in a wave tank. Journal of the Institute of Civil Engineers 15(5237):27–53. Bagnold, R.A....
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    taken to name the colors of the squares in Experiment 2. This delay had not appeared in the first experiment. Such interference were explained by the automation...
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    MSTRKRFT, Best Coast, Big Sean, LA Riots, Kill The Noise, Ocelot 2012 – Silversun Pickups, Paul Van Dyk, Chiddy Bang, Ra Ra Riot, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis...
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  • Kill la Kill (Japanese: キルラキル, Hepburn: Kiru Ra Kiru) is a Japanese anime television series created and produced by Trigger. The series follows vagrant...
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  • neurology, retrograde amnesia (RA) is the inability to access memories or information from before an injury or disease occurred. RA differs from a similar condition...
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