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(sl vyänsk´) (KEY) , city (1989 pop. 135,000), E Ukraine, in the Donets Basin. It is a railroad junction and has salt and soda works. Manufactures i...
(Georg Joachim von Lauchen) (r ´t k s, g ´ôrk y ä´kh m f n lou´kh n) (KEY) , 1514–76, German astronomer, mathematician, and first disciple of ...
or Symeon (both: s m´ n) (KEY) , in the Bible. 1 Second son of Jacob and Leah and ancestor of the southernmost tribe of Israel. He and his tribe are...
(Claudius Ptolemaeus), fl. 2d cent. A.D., celebrated Greco-Egyptian mathematician, astronomer, and geographer. He made his observations in Alexandria ...
(s väsh´) (KEY) or Putrid Sea, Rus. Gniloye More, salt lagoon, c.1,000 sq mi (2,590 sq km), S Ukraine, extending along the northeastern coast of th...
visible gaseous product of incomplete combustion. Smoke varies with its source, but it usually comprises hot gas and suspended particles of carbon and...