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Potential energy (gravitational)
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The stored energy of a substance. water has a lot of this if there is an elevation difference. potential energy can be converted to kinetic energy if the water (or other substance) is allowed to move.
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Difference, английский
- Disagreement, inequity, contrast, dissimilarity, incompatibility
- Разница; разность
- An important army term, meaning firstly the sum to be paid by officers when exchanging from the half to full pay; and, secondly, the price or difference in value of the several commissions.
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Biostratigraphy, английский
- The study and classification of rocks and their history based on their fossil content.
- The element of stratigraphy that deals with the distribution of fossils in the stratigraphic record and the organization of strata into units on the basis of their contained fossils (see section 7.c.1).
Plug dome, английский
- The steep-sided, rounded mound formed when viscous lava wells up into a crater and is too stiff to flow away. it piles up as a dome-shaped mass, often completely filling the vent from which it emerged.
- A volcanic dome characterized by an upheaved, consolidated conduit filling. gg
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