Before Joseph Stalin’s assumption to power as the General Secretary of the Communist Party‚ Russia was primarily an agrarian based society. Determined to transform Russia into a competitive industrial socialist nation‚ Stalin implemented a series of economic and social reforms now referred to as Stalinism. While these reforms were geared towards accelerating industry‚ ultimately Stalin’s policies led to a disastrous waste of raw materials‚ a significant loss of human capital‚ and a life of hardship
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Silicon Element Silicon is a chemical element with the symbol Si and atomic number 14 and atomic mass is 28. It is a tetravalent metalloid‚ less reactive than its chemical analog carbon‚ the nonmetal directly above it in the periodic table‚ but more reactive than germanium‚ the metalloid directly below it in the table. Controversy about silicon’s character dates to its discovery; it was first prepared and characterized in pure form in 1823. In 1808‚ it was given the name silicium‚ with an -ium
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April 1975‚ saw the Khmer Rouge seize Phnom Penh and with it the basic human rights and dignity of it’s people; who were marched out of the city and forced into slave labour camps under the guise of equality. Pol Pot‚ leader of the Khmer Rouge‚ was educated in Paris where he became familiar with Marxist Ideology. He wanted to revolutionise Cambodia by turning it into a giant agricultural food bowl‚ farmed by its people. This change was marked by renaming Cambodia Kampuchea and in recognition of
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using gunpowder for fireworks and entertainment purposes‚ but little did they know that they were holding the future of warfare in their hands. In ancient RomeBack in the ancient Roman times‚ the soldiers used spears and other sharp objects to fight with. The ancient Rromans would often line up face-to- by face and throw these non- explosive weapons at the oppositionother opponent. The technique that the ancient
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What is Semiconductor A semiconductor is a solid whose electrical conductivity can be controlled over a wide range‚ either permanently or dynamically. Semiconductors are tremendously important technologically and economically. Silicon is the most commercially important semiconductor‚ though dozens of others are important as well. 1.2 What is Semiconductor Industry The semiconductor industry is the collection of business firms engaged in the design and fabrication of semiconductor devices
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After revolutionizing chemistry‚ naming elements‚ discovering combustion and respiration‚ Antoine Lavoisier helped transform chemistry from a qualitative science into a quantitative one. Antoine Lavoisier was born on August 26‚ 1743 in France’s Capital‚ Paris. Antoine’s father was Jean-Antoine Lavoisier‚he was a lawyer in the Paris Parliament while his mother‚ was Émilie Punctis‚ and her family wealth had come from a butchery business. Antoine’s mother died while he was five leaving him a large inheritance
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One of the major industries that the Industrial Revolution changed for the better was the production of textiles. Before it there was no machinery or way to facilitate the work of the laborer. However‚ the real question is: How exactly did the Industrial Revolution revolutionize the textile industry? To answer this question‚ one must first delve a little deeper on the origins of what we today call “Textile Industry”. The Textile Industry before the Revolution mostly took place in villages or specific
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[Date] [Date] mukul88 [company name] mukul88 [company name] Semiconductor industry: Reasons of slowdown and its future. A study Semiconductor industry: Reasons of slowdown and its future. A study INTRODUCTION The semiconductor industry lives - and dies - by simple creed: smaller‚ faster and cheaper. The benefit of being tiny is pretty simple: finer lines mean more transistors can be packed onto the same chip. The more transistors on a chip‚ the faster it can do its work. Thanks in
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Louis Pasteur helped to revolutionize the surgical process. He began his career studying tarate crystals. He then went on to work as a chemistry professor. While working as a professor he began to study the effect of bacteria in the alcohol fermentation process. While working on this he discovered yeast and that it was feeding off of the grapes and that it was a living thing. His next feet‚ was to prove that life is formed from living cells‚ that the yeast did not just spontaneously appear in
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524 SILICON CARBIDE Vol. 22 SILICON CARBIDE 1. Introduction Silicon carbide [409-21-2] (SiC) is a technologically important material that is one of the small number of unusual materials that were first created synthetically and then subsequently discovered in nature. Silicon carbide was first observed in its natural form in 1905 by the Nobel-prize-winning chemist Henri Moissan‚ who discovered it in the meteor that created the Diablo Canyon in Arizona. The transparent mineral‚ now known as
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