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    found that it had exceeded their expectations of the damage that it could cause. Among those able to watch the explosion in amazement was General Leslie Groves‚ who‚ in a letter to the War Department in Washington D.C. wrote “ There were tremendous blast effects. For a brief period there was a lighting effect within a radius of 20 miles equal to several suns in midday; a huge ball of fire was formed which lasted for several seconds. This ball mushroomed and rose to a height of over ten thousand feet

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    Introduction Hello‚ I will be discussing Leukaemia Cancer. I will be covering what leukaemia is‚ who is being affected by leukaemia and how is it affecting them‚ what health professionals are involved and what is currently being done about Leukaemia. What is Leukaemia? Leukaemia is a blood cell cancer‚ abnormal blood cells are made in the bone-marrow. Leukaemia involves the manufacture of abnormal white blood cells. The leukaemia cells continue to grow and multiply swarming the normal blood cells

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    Bombings in Japan

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    damages and side effects were much greater than anything that has ever happened in war. In Life: Hiroshima and Nagasaki excerpt‚ a man spoke about what he saw‚ “In the following waves [after the initial blast] people’s bodies were terribly squeezed‚ and then their internal organs ruptured. Then the blast blew the broken bodies at 500 to 1‚000 miles per hour through the flaming‚ rubble-filled air. Practically everybody within a radius of 6‚500 feet was killed or seriously injured and all buildings crushed

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    non-fermenter thus backing up my believe that Micrococcus luteus is our unknown bacterium. But I also know that you’re saying “Staphylococcus can also grow on MSA too!” and I totally agree but as you can see under the blast result in the “Result” portion of this paper‚ none of the top blast result had Staphylococcus but they did have Micrococcus luteus which backs up my belief even more that Micrococcus luteus is our unknown

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    Agro based industries Cotton Location -The first cotton textile mill on modern lines was started in Bombay in 1854. Later the mills were started at Ahmedabad in 1858‚ then in Kanpur‚ Nagpur‚ Sholapur‚ Surat and other places. As I said before‚ today India holds the third place among the cotton textile producing countries of the world. It provides emplyment to a large number of people and also helps to ear foreign exchange. Gujarat and Maharashtra states‚ lead the country in cotton textile production

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    Trevor Smith Biol 4400 Dr. Achberger May 8‚ 2013 a. From the amino acid sequence the gene is the LacI repressor for Escherichia coli. See appendix 1 for the search result. b. The complete nucleic acid sequence of the protein with the open reading frame (ORF) indicated by red and green colorization as well as the forward and reverse primers underlined (a screenshot was taken so the sequence could be clearly displayed): c. The ORF and flanking nucleotide sequences are displayed in part “b

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    treaty prohibiting "the emplacement of nuclear weapons ... on the ocean floor and in the subsoil thereof." Besides public and international disapproval‚ France may suffer other side effects because of the nuclear testing. The explosive power of the blast is just less than 20 kilotons (20‚000 tons of TNT). The bomb on Hiroshima was 15 kilotons. New Japanese research shows that bomb radiation increases risk of long term cancer. Radiation causes ionization in the molecules of living

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    granulocyte cell line without the loss of their ability to separate. Subsequently‚ the peripheral blood cell profile shows a larger number of granulocytes (neutrophils‚ eosinophils‚ and basophils) and their undeveloped precursors‚ including occasional blast cells. Chronic myelogenous leukemia is a clonal bone marrow stem cell disease associated with a characteristic chromosomal translocation called the Philadelphia chromosome‚ named after the city where it was discovered.

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    explosion outside of her home in Topeka‚ Kansas sometime after 11:00 pm. After going to see where the noise came from‚ she called the police department to report the explosion. The police department told her that they had already had news of the blast and that it wasn’t from her house‚ yet a mile away from where she lives. She had to call them back several times before an officer finally responded to investigate the situation and gather evidence of the crime. IED debris The family was eager

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    the device. Such devices are typically detonated automatically by way of pressure from the target stepping or driving on it‚ though other detonation mechanisms may be possible.[1] The device may cause damage either by a direct blast or by fragments that are thrown by the blast. The name originates from the ancient practice of military mining‚ where tunnels were dug under enemy fortifications or troop formations by sappers. These killing tunnels ("mines") were at first collapsed to destroy targets

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