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chemical compound containing silicon, oxygen, and one or more metals, e.g., aluminum, barium, beryllium, calcium, iron, magnesium, manganese, potassiu...
(s r k´ ) (KEY) [Ital., from Arab. sharq=east], hot, dust-laden, dry, southerly wind originating in the N African desert (most commonly in the sprin...
(yô´z f väts´läf slä´d k) (KEY) , 1845–1912, Czech poet and translator. He lived in the United States from 1868 to 1870. Sládek later taught...
(sy ´rä m r ´nä) (KEY) , mountain range, SW Spain, extending c.375 mi (600 km) eastward along the southern edge of the Meseta (central plateau) fr...
(Marvin Neil Simon), 1927–, American playwright, b. New York City. His plays, nearly all of them popular, if not always critical successes, are come...
(n ´tr t) (KEY) , chemical compound, AgNO3, a colorless crystalline material that is very soluble in water. The most important compound of silver, it...