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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...
1845–1912, English astronomer and mathematician; 2d son of Charles Darwin. He was Plumian professor (from 1883) of astronomy and experimental philos...
(s ´n , b r´y ström) (KEY) , 1916–2004, Swedish biochemist, grad. Karolinska Institute (Ph.D., M.D., 1944). With his former pupil B. I. Samuelsso...
(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 ...