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chemical compound, SiC, that forms extremely hard, dark, iridescent crystals that are insoluble in water and other common solvents. Widely used as an ...
( ndr ´ d nät´ vy ch´´ s nyäf´sk ) (KEY) , 1925–97, Russian novelist and essayist. Starting in the 1960s, Sinyavsky, a protege of Boris Paste...
designation for two groups of intellectuals in mid-19th-century Russia that represented opposing schools of thought concerning the nature of Russian c...
(yän kr s´tyän sm ts) (KEY) , 1870–1950, South African statesman and soldier, b. Cape Colony.
Of Boer (Afrikaner) stock but a British subject by ...
fine, horny, translucent, yellowish fiber produced by the silkworm in making its cocoon and covered with sericin, a protein. Many varieties of silk-sp...
name for any plant of the genus Helenium, American meadow and field herbs of the family Asteraceae (aster family), with daisylike heads of yellow (or ...