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2-methyl-1,3-butadiene ( ´s pr n, by ´´t d ´ n) (KEY) , colorless liquid organic compound. It is a hydrocarbon, and is insoluble in water but solu...
(h s ´ fränth ´sk d ´slä) (KEY) , 1703–81, Spanish Jesuit preacher and writer. Enormously precocious, he took his law degree at 11. Isla’s...
(ish´ rw d) (KEY) , 1904–86, British-American author. After the appearance of his first novel, All the Conspirators (1928), Isherwood went to Germa...
(j ´l n) (KEY) , d. 478 B.C., Greek Sicilian ruler. As tyrant of Gela, his native city, he interfered in the struggle for power in Syracuse (485 B.C....
( sh m´) (KEY) , city (1989 pop. 66,000), W Siberian Russia, on the Ishim River and the Trans-Siberian RR. An agricultural center, it produces farm m...
relatively small body of land surrounded entirely by water. (As the oceans form a continuous mass of water on the earth’s surface, all continents ar...