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(äbrä-äm´ bôs) (KEY) , 1602–76, French engraver and painter. He studied art in Paris and became a teacher of perspective in the Académie royal...
( ´k sh) (KEY) , in the Bible, king of Gath with whom David took refuge. He is called Abimelech in the title of Psalm 34....
( k´´t n m ´s n) (KEY) , any one of a group of antibiotics produced by bacteria of the genus Streptomyces. Actinomycin was the first antibiotic rep...
town (1990 pop. 17,872), Middlesex co., E Mass., NW of Boston; settled c.1680, inc. 1735. Among its manufactures are electrical machinery, chemicals, ...
in chemistry, minimum energy needed to cause a chemical reaction. A chemical reaction between two substances occurs only when an atom, ion, or molecul...
(äbä´t f l p´p bäld n t´ch ) (KEY) , 1624–96, Italian art historian and philologist. Baldinucci was a pioneer in research techniques and amo...