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  • Sonification

    Sonification

    Sonification is the use of non-speech audio to convey information or perceptualize data. Auditory perception has advantages in temporal, spatial, amplitude, and frequency resolution that open possibilities as an alternative or complement to visualization techniques. For example, the rate of clicking of a Geiger counter conveys the level of radiation in the immediate vicinity of the device. Though many experiments with data sonification have been explored in forums

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  • 🝖 Alchemical Symbol For Horse Dung

    🝖 Alchemical Symbol For Horse Dung

    Ah, the alchemical symbol for horse dung! Let’s gallop into this steaming pile of esoteric wisdom, shall we? 🐎💩✨ Picture this: An alchemist, eyes wild with the fever of discovery, realizes that the key to unlocking the universe’s secrets lies not in rare metals or exotic herbs, but in the humble excrement of Equus ferus

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  • Sonication

    Sonication

    Sonication is the act of applying sound energy to agitate particles in a sample, for various purposes such as the extraction of multiple compounds from plants, microalgae and seaweeds. Ultrasonic frequencies (> 20 kHz) are usually used, leading to the process also being known as ultrasonication or ultra-sonication. In the laboratory, it is usually applied using an ultrasonic bath or an ultrasonic probe, colloquially known

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  • Symbols for Sulfur and Mercury

    Symbols for Sulfur and Mercury

    Symbols for sulfur and mercury 1F70D  🜍  ALCHEMICAL SYMBOL FOR SULFUR     = brimstone 1F70E  🜎  ALCHEMICAL SYMBOL FOR PHILOSOPHERS SULFUR 1F70F  🜏  ALCHEMICAL SYMBOL FOR BLACK SULFUR     = sulfur nigra, dye 1F710  🜐  ALCHEMICAL SYMBOL FOR MERCURY SUBLIMATE     → 263F ☿ mercury     → 1F75E 🝞 alchemical symbol for sublimation

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  • The Garden of Earthly Delights,  Hieronymus Bosch

    The Garden of Earthly Delights,  Hieronymus Bosch

    The Garden of Earthly Delights is the modern title[a] given to a triptych oil painting on oak panel painted by the Early Netherlandish master Hieronymus Bosch, between 1490 and 1510, when Bosch was between 40 and 60 years old. It has been housed in the Museo del Prado in Madrid, Spain since 1939. Bosch painted three large triptychs (the others are The Last Judgment of c. 1482 and The Haywain Triptych of c. 1516) that can be read

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  • The Goldfinch in art

    The Goldfinch in art

    The goldfinch is a widespread and common seed-eating bird in Europe, North Africa, and western and central Asia. As a colourful species with a pleasant twittering song, and an associated belief that it brought health and good fortune, it had been domesticated for at least 2,000 years. Pliny recorded that it could be taught to do tricks, and in the

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  • Goldfinch In Art

    Goldfinch In Art

    The bird that repeatedly, almost obsessively, turns up in Renaissance religious painting is the European Goldfinch Carduelis carduelis, almost always in the hands of the Infant Jesus, and symbolising variously the soul, resurrection, sacrifice and death, but with a particular further dimension of meaning, following the plagues of the fourteenth century, as an augur (and hence

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  • Thistle Tubes, Thistle Feeders, Distelfinks and Goldfinches Wiki

    Thistle Tubes, Thistle Feeders, Distelfinks and Goldfinches Wiki

    A thistle tube is a piece of laboratory glassware consisting of a shaft of tube, with a reservoir and funnel-like section at the top. Thistle tubes are typically used by chemists to add liquid to an existing system or apparatus. Thistle funnels are used to add small volumes of liquids to an exact position. Thistle funnels are found with or without taps. Since they’re

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  • Virgil was a sorcerer?

    Virgil was a sorcerer?

    Publius Vergilius Maro (traditional dates 15 October 70 – 21 September 19 BC), usually called Virgil or Vergil in English, was an ancient Roman poet of the Augustan period. He composed three of the most famous poems in Latin literature: the Eclogues (or Bucolics), the Georgics, and the epic Aeneid. A number of minor poems, collected in the Appendix Vergiliana, were attributed to him in ancient times, but modern scholars consider his

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