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Alphabetical index of keywords beginning T

0-9, A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z

T — ta, te, th, ti, to, tr, ts, tu, tv, tw, ty, tz

• T, τ
  • Atomic number 23
  • of Ford’s Model T
  • Symbols
  • For tau, the Greek τ
• Tabasco
  • Scoville scale
  • Tabasco sauce is pungent,
• Taberg
  • Vanadium
  • took a ductile iron ore from Taberg
• table
  • Atomic number
  • in the periodic table.
  • in the periodic table
  • Atomic number 11
  • Common salt, table salt
  • Atomic number 86
  • Radon is the mosquito of the periodic table.
  • Betting
  • and they are banking on that. Actuarial tables say
  • Celluloid
  • Knife handles, slide rules, guitar picks, and table tennis balls.
  • Computing devices
  • a positional sexagesimal table
  • to help him calculate tables of logarithms
  • a set of multiplication tables
  • Dimension
  • to describe all the properties of elements in the periodic table,
  • Fact and ritual
  • multiplication tables, nursery rhymes, rules of hopscotch—
  • Fact and ritual
  • We memorize our multiplication tables
  • but we are uneasy with the periodic table.
  • Germanium
  • for his periodic table, predicted elements
  • Ideomotor phenomenon
  • exerted by the people who were touching the table,
  • not paranormal phenomena, caused table-turning.
  • of magic pendulums, divining rods, and table-turning.
  • Location arithmetic
  • Napier’s grid, like other counting tables at the time,
  • Logarithm
  • Herein providing a method with a table
  • Napier’s bones
  • of multiplication tables
  • No mineral contains promethium
  • A gap in the table
  • Nonius arcs
  • the degrees from a table.
  • Nonius riffs
  • The nonius is ready; the table is nigh.
  • Pattern recognition
  • Yet, given a diagnosis of lymphoma and actuarial tables,
  • Periodic table
  • Philosophical language
  • showing twenty-nine consonants in a table arranged
  • Salty stuff
  • Rock salt, table salt
  • Senescence
  • actuarial tables.
  • Study of flight
  • against John Smeaton’s table of atmospheric resistances,
  • Tellurium
  • but that fit into the periodic table next to antimony.
  • Tribological experiments
  • a level table with no lubrication. Next,
  • we pull blocks down an inclined table,
  • and we test the effects of lubricating the table.
  • to do these experiments on table tops
• tableau
  • A genius of his time
  • Tableau élémentaire de l’histoire naturelle des animaux
• tablet
  • Atomic number 13
  • swallowed as antacid tablets
  • Early forms of hidden writing
  • a message written under the wax of a writing tablet,
  • Paper
  • tablets of bone or bamboo, which were heavy,
• tachometer
  • Employees
  • and an electric tachometer for steam ships.
• Tacoma
  • Other bridges
  • Tacoma Narrows Bridge, originally known as Galloping Gertie.
• tadpole
  • Spoons, tadpoles
  • shaped like a tadpole,
• tag
  • Rectenna uses
  • A RFID tag is powered by radio waves
• tail
  • Aft
  • in its turbulent tail
  • Apparitions
  • with thick brown straw-like tails.
  • cyanogen in the tail would poison all life.
  • Benzene ring
  • forming a circle by biting its own tail,
  • Discovery of Uranus
  • he discovered an object without a tail
  • Difficult man
  • as a horse’s tail.”
  • Speleothems
  • helictites that wave from walls like the tails of fish,
• tailgater
  • Superstition
  • and freeway tailgaters
• Taiping Yulan
  • Imprints
  • 1574, Taiping Yulan, an encyclopedia
• talc
  • Mohs scale
  • from 1, represented by talc,
• tale
  • It doesn’t exist
  • as deliberate as fairy tales.
  • Periodic table
  • In this fairy tale, as sunlight pours over chaos,
• talisman
  • Atomic number 50
  • I’ll shine up my tin talisman
• Talos
  • Wonders
  • walking tripods, and the bronze man, Talos, who guarded the island of Crete.
• tamarisk
  • Enquiry into Plants
  • hazel, chestnut, tamarisk, fig, sycomore fig,
• Tang
  • Cobalt
  • and the Tang and Ming dynasties in China
• tangent
  • Calculus
  • Liebniz focused on the tangent
  • Derivative and integral
  • is the slope of the tangent at a point
  • Slide rule
  • tangents and cotangents,
• tank
  • Submarine principles
  • In 1866, the Sub Marine Explorer used ballast tanks
• tantalate
  • Atomic number 71
  • tantalate
• tantalite
  • Angularium
  • however, the name was already given to an alleged element found in Tantalite.
  • Niobium
  • with tantalite and said they were the same
  • Heinrich Rose found three elements in tantalite,
  • Franz von Kobell found a new metal in tantalite
  • found yet another new metal in tantalite
  • Tantalum
  • and occur in the same minerals—columbite, tanpiolite, and tantalite
  • Technical stuff
  • Columbite and tantalite
• tantalum
  • Atomic number 73
  • tantalum is ductile
  • tantalum forms
  • tantalum is bioinert
  • Niobium
  • including tantalum (discovered just after columbium),
  • showed that niobium was different from tantalum,
  • Rare stuff
  • in a rare tantalum case
  • Samarium
  • niobium, tantalum, titanium, and oxygen, named after
  • Tantalum
  • Anders Gustaf Ekeberg discovered tantalum in tapiolite from Finland.
  • Identification of tantalum was swept up in the same confusion
  • because niobium and tantalum are chemically similar
  • —even though tantalum is twice as dense and heavy as niobium.
• Tantalus
  • Niobium
  • and named them after the children of Tantalus:
• Tanzania
  • Chimpanzees and humans
  • in western Tanzania at the request of Louis Leakey.
  • Paranthropus boisei
  • in the Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania.
• Taoist
  • Gunpowder
  • Taoist monks or alchemists in China
• tape
  • Difference engine
  • appears in a perforated paper tape.
• tapestry
  • Apparitions
  • The Bayeux Tapestry depicts the appearance of Halley’s comet
• tapeworm
  • Spontaneous generation
  • Tapeworms grow in intestines.
• tapiolite
  • Tantalum
  • Anders Gustaf Ekeberg discovered tantalum in tapiolite from Finland.
  • and occur in the same minerals—columbite, tanpiolite, and tantalite
  • Technical stuff
  • tapiolite is tetragonal.
• tapir
  • Comparative anatomy
  • an animal like a tapir.
• tar
  • Forms of carbon
  • coal tar, carbon black, carbon dioxide,
• target
  • Derivative and integral
  • a target point and a nearby point on the curve
  • Explanations
  • A missile launched nearer to the equator than its target
  • at the target, so the correct targetting
  • waits for the target to catch up to the missile.
  • Fathul Mujahidin
  • and the distance to the target.
  • Uses
  • Target tracking
  • triangulating military targets
• tariff
  • Pressure of liberty
  • our tariffs and border security
• tarnish
  • Stuff that tarnishes
  • and the ideal, which can not tarnish.
  • hydrogen sulfide, over time, it tarnishes,
• tarnished
  • Copperness
  • tarnished or shiny
• tarot
  • The method
  • astrology, tarot, humorism,
• tartar
  • Atomic number 19
  • (as cream of tartar, potassium bitartrate).
• task
  • Some tasks
  • in some tasks, such as peeling garlic, chopping
• tassel
  • Difficult man
  • that their tassels and titles
• taste
  • Atomic number 33
  • and said to enhance the taste of wine.
  • To each his own
  • is the taste
• taster
  • Scoville scale
  • until a panel of tasters can not detect the heat in it.
• tasty
  • Tin mistakes
  • chewing the labels glued with something tasty.
• tattoo
  • Cosmetics with pigments
  • Henna, genipapo, tattoo, body painting
• tau
  • Symbols
  • For tau, the Greek τ
  • (tau, rho, iota, tau, omicron, nu).
  • (tau, rho, iota, tau, omicron, nu).
  • Tau
  • Electron, muon, and tau
  • Too bad making tau
  • Time dilation / length contraction
  • People wondered how muons and tau
• tautochrone
  • Escapements
  • thereby reducing error due to the tautochrone problem,
  • The tautochrone problem
• tautology
  • Contradictions and tautologies
  • Tautology
• taxicab
  • Diophantine equation
  • Taxicab numbers, starting with 1729, can be expressed
• taxonomy
  • Philosophical language
  • signified their places in a taxonomy of all knowledge,
  • indicated their places in a taxonomy of ideas,
  • However, such a taxonomy is inevitably limited by ignorance,
• tea
  • Universal gravitation
  • while under the influence of mild tea
• teacher
  • Good standing
  • handed down from teachers and masters,
  • Hebrew calendar
  • teachers switched from direct observation
  • Leyden jar
  • had the same teacher in Leyden,
• teaching
  • Experimental method
  • to establish the value of experiment over scholastic teaching.
  • Hutton’s unconformity
  • by cultural perception or religious teaching.
  • Imhotep, the myth
  • many books of ethical teachings of great wisdom
  • Imprints
  • 1377, Jikji, an anthology of zen teachings
  • Teachings
  • preferred Tycho Brahe’s teaching,
  • no previous teaching matched the facts.
  • Wave nature of light
  • did not find the teachings of Newton sufficient
• teallite
  • Atomic number 50
  • franckeite, canfieldite, and teallite,
• team
  • Atomic number 5
  • 20 Mule Team Borax
  • Cerium
  • Klaproth and the team of Berzelius and Hisinger
  • Cooper pair
  • with opposite spins, to move together as a team with the lattice distortion.
  • Industrial research laboratory
  • in Menlo Park, New Jersey, and to hire a large team
  • Knee-jerk reactions
  • for the team, political candidate, negotiator;
  • One atmosphere
  • could not be pulled apart by teams of horses.
  • Plutonium
  • In December 1940, Glenn Seaborg and his team
  • Stupidity
  • when more than half of all football teams are winning,
  • Vitamin discoveries
  • The two teams also identified
• tear
  • Escapements
  • by variations in the forces on the gear train.
  • Liquids
  • tears for real
  • Tears of wine
  • James Thomson observed “tears of wine”
• teardrop
  • Black drop effect
  • like a teardrop, made timing its entrance difficult.
  • Water witching
  • If a teardrop were a potion,
• teaspoon
  • Endergonic vs. exergonic
  • Each teaspoon of soil
• technician
  • The four causes
  • radar technician, refrigerator repairman,
• technique
  • Color printing
  • developed sophisticated techniques
  • How to paint
  • with new woodblock techniques
  • Periodic
  • Standard chemical analytic techniques continued to fail.
  • Public-key cryptography
  • Typically, this technique is used for sharing a symmetric key
  • Virchow
  • introduced the standardized technique
• technetium
  • Atomic number 43
  • the isotope technetium-99m,
  • Technetium
  • particularly isotopes technetium-95m and technetium-97.
  • Unstable stuff
  • Technetium decays;
• technology
  • Aramids
  • as Stephanie Kwolek benefitted from knowledge and technology
  • Global Positioning System
  • GBS was a secret military technology
  • Incandescent light
  • and improvements to the technology continued after Edison.
  • Indium
  • of Mining and Technology,
  • Origin of species
  • and science has merged with technology.
  • Other batteries
  • even after other battery technologies were adopted for other uses.
  • Related technology
  • Spreading fire
  • The Mongols acquired Chinese technology by conquest
  • Universal babble (with dates)
  • to put a vocabulary of science and technology
• tectonics
  • Salty stuff
  • Salt tectonics
  • Uses
  • Tectonics
• tectum
  • Too soon
  • and tectum argenti,
• teenager
  • Deciphering hieroglyphics
  • having learned Coptic as a teenager,
• teething
  • Remedies
  • and for teething in children.
• Teflon™
  • Atomic number 9
  • for Teflon™
• Teige
  • “Poetist”
  • Karel Teige decided in 1924 that we needed a new art
• Teijinconex
  • Aramids
  • such as Nomex, Teijinconex, Twaron, X-Fiper, and Kermel,
• Teitelbaum
  • ENIAC
  • and Ruth Lichterman (Teitelbaum)
• tekhelet
  • Spiritual blue
  • The Jewish people made the blue dye tekhelet
• telecommunication
  • Atomic number 37
  • Rubidium occillators synchronize telecommunications.
• Telefunken
  • Prior art, post art
  • mentioned that Telefunken had
• telegraph
  • Electrical telegraph
  • Francis Ronalds made the first working telegraph
  • Employees
  • Edward Hibberd Johnson hired the young Edison at the Automatic Telegraph Company
  • Industrial research laboratory
  • Thomas Edison sold his quadruplex telegraph
  • Inventions
  • the printing telegraph,
  • the quadruplex telegraph,
  • Loading coil
  • Transmissions over transatlantic telegraph cables
  • Marital telegraph
  • Other batteries
  • Callaud’s version of the Daniel cell was used in telegraph networks.
  • The Grove cell was used in American telegraph networks.
  • Other electrical telegraphs
  • invented and demonstrated his own telegraph
  • and a recording electric telegraph.
  • was the first commercial telegraph.
• telegraphy
  • Employees
  • worked on projects in telegraphy, telephony, the phonograph, and electric lighting
• Telemark
  • Operation Gunnerside
  • Vemork plant in Telemark.
• telemobiloscope
  • Telemobiloscope
• telephone
  • Erinoid
  • Wireless Installations, Telephones,
  • Inventions
  • and the telephone.
  • Other batteries
  • The Leclanché cell was used in early telephones.
  • Telephone
  • Wireless telephone
• telephony
  • Employees
  • worked on projects in telegraphy, telephony, the phonograph, and electric lighting
• telescope
  • Atomic number 4
  • for space telescopes.
  • Atomic number 29
  • The telescope mirrors
  • Atomic number 57
  • glass for camera and telescope lenses,
  • Disappearing-filament pyrometer
  • of a Keplerian telescope,
  • Disregarding authority
  • and improved the telescope.
  • It’s not where it seems
  • and telescopes
  • Lenses
  • descended from the compound lens telescope,
  • Leviathan of Parsonstown
  • Parsons’ was the largest telescope
  • Micrometer
  • at the focal point of a telescope he was designing
  • Microscope and telescope
  • the telescope, or both.
  • Observational astronomy
  • began making telescopes
  • had made more powerful telescopes
  • Optical refracting
  • The first optical refracting telescopes
  • improved telescope
  • Originals
  • attached Gascoigne’s telescope and micrometer to a quadrant
  • Reflecting telescope
  • then characteristic of refracting telescopes.
  • Shoulders of giants
  • Galileo Galilei built telescopes
  • Snell’s law
  • microscopes and telescopes.
  • Spiral galaxies
  • built his own telescope
  • for astronomers with even larger telescopes
  • Sunspot cycle
  • meter telescope,
  • Teachings
  • used a tool more powerful than telescopes;
  • Telescopes
  • Herschel made more than four hundred telescopes,
  • including a reflecting telescope
  • The telescope with which he discovered Uranus
  • This telescope had a diameter of six and a half inches
  • Telescoping history
  • The Dutch telescopes
  • improved telescope, in 1609,
  • with one of his telescopes
  • called a telescope.
  • built the first reflecting telescope
  • Theory of color
  • of refracting telescopes and microscopes
  • Torsion balance
  • using a pair of telescopes stuck through the wood
  • Verifiable
  • then his telescope had optical defects
  • The Grand Duke paid Galileo to make telescopes
• telescoping
  • Telescoping history
• television
  • see TV
  • Atomic number 39
  • to television and computer screens.
  • Atomic number 64
  • Green gadolinium phosphors were used for color television tubes.
  • Miasmas
  • Television news; political horse-races.
  • Various tubes
  • oscilloscopes, televisions,
• telluride
  • Atomic number 52
  • Cadmium telluride is sensitive to sunlight in solar panels;
  • mercury cadmium telluride is sensitive to infrared;
  • and zinc cadmium telluride is sensitive to X-rays.
• tellurium
  • Atomic number 52
  • Tellurium in iron, copper, and lead alloys
  • Tellurium suboxide is in the readable, writable layer
  • Selenium
  • It was like tellurium, named for the Earth,
  • Tellurium
  • another ore with tellurium and gold,
• tellus
  • Tellurium
  • named it after the Latin for “earth,” tellus.
• telomerase
  • Telomere
  • another mechanism, the telomerase enzyme,
  • in humans, telomerase is active
  • Terminal transferase
  • but our own telomerase
• telomere
  • Fuses
  • Shortening telomeres
  • Reverse transcriptase
  • extend their telomeres.
  • Telomere
  • have tiny caps called “telomeres”
  • stops at the telomeres, so that sometimes
  • the telomeres are broken;
  • replenishes the telomeres;
  • enough divisions, their shortened telomeres
• temperament
  • The Canon of Medicine
  • the four temperaments (hot, cold, moist, and dry),
  • the temperaments of the four periods of man,
  • bilious, and atrabilious temperaments.
  • Humorism
  • depends on a person’s temperament,
• temperature
  • Allotropes
  • At extremely low temperatures, diatomic hydrogen,
  • Arbitrary decisions
  • went backward, where the temperature got smaller
  • Arrhenius equation
  • and surface temperatures
  • Atomic kinetic thermodynamics
  • divided by temperature is constant.
  • Atomic number 3
  • the least dense solid element at room temperature,
  • Atomic number 29
  • above the boiling temperature of liquid nitrogen.
  • Atomic number 35
  • that fumes at room temperature
  • Atomic number 42
  • and as molybdenum disilicide in high-temperature ceramics.
  • Atomic number 74
  • tungsten disulphide for high-temperature lubricants,
  • Boron
  • used iron and high temperatures
  • Boyle’s law
  • if you keep its temperature the same,
  • Centigrade scale
  • the need for a standard temperature scale
  • created a temperature scale using the same points
  • Changes of state
  • would vary smoothly with its temperature.
  • Cheese scale
  • affect melting temperature?
  • Daniell’s Register-Pyrometer
  • of Temperature upon the common
  • Delisle scale
  • is at the temperature of boiling water and that increases
  • in fine degrees as temperatures get cooler,
  • Disappearing-filament pyrometer
  • temperatures
  • at the same temperature
  • have the same temperature when,
  • The electrical researches of the Honourable Henry Cavendish
  • with various concentrations of salt at various temperatures
  • Electric conductivity
  • how the limit varied by the temperature, mass, surface, length,
  • as the temperature was higher,”
  • Fahrenheit scale
  • In 1701, Isaac Newton described a temperature scale
  • and twelve was the human body temperature.
  • He set ninety six at the human body temperature;
  • and he set zero at the temperature of a mixture
  • Findings
  • Seebeck found the Seebeck effect—a temperature difference
  • Frigorific mixture
  • reach a stable temperature
  • regardless of their initial temperatures.
  • Greenhouse effect
  • regulate Earth’s temperature
  • Hawking radiation
  • but has a temperature related to its mass
  • How to calibrate
  • over the range of temperatures
  • Humboldt’s voyage
  • the decrease in temperature
  • Hygrometer designs
  • Determining the temperature at which a mirror fogs.
  • Ideal emissivity
  • at the same temperature.
  • Infographics
  • temperature, and direction of travel.
  • In a vacuum
  • depends on altitude, temperature,
  • Langmuir probe
  • have a temperature
  • Langmuir waves
  • temperature gradients cause Langmuir waves
  • Latent heat
  • Joseph Black measured the temperature and realized
  • Laws of thermodynamics
  • depends on only the temperature difference inside the engine,
  • Liquids
  • but that metal at room temperature
  • Mercury
  • at room temperature,
  • Multiple instruments
  • can measure all temperatures.
  • Nansen bottle
  • how temperature and salinity varied
  • temperature and a water sample at a given depth.
  • Niskin improvements
  • to capture temperatures and samples at many depths.
  • Observations of the moon
  • Measurements of lunar temperatures
  • Other definitions of absolute zero
  • The temperature at which
  • Previous thermometers
  • that responded to temperature were highly variable,
  • that the density of a liquid varies with its temperature.
  • Pycnocline
  • and in which temperatures drop and salinity increases,
  • Quasiparticles
  • to low temperatures and high magnetic fields,
  • Réaumur scale
  • to expand with the temperature to the point where the alcohol boils,
  • studied the relation between temperature and the growth of insects,
  • Recalibration
  • Fahrenheit chose ninety six for body temperature
  • or that body temperature is 22.5 °Rø.
  • and body temperature became ninety six.
  • a balmy temperature of 25 °C doesn’t signify.
  • Regulating the body
  • try to keep temperature,
  • Related constants
  • divided by its temperature times the number of particles
  • Relative expansion
  • to determine temperatures,
  • Resistance behavior
  • its resistance becomes independent of temperature.
  • Resistance thermometer
  • that conductance of metals varied according to temperature
  • between resistance and temperature over the greatest range.
  • Platinum pyrometer
  • method of determining high temperatures,
  • with a mercury thermometer at low temperatures
  • at higher temperatures. Although he showed
  • at temperatures above the melting point of antimony.
  • Practical problems
  • only at low temperatures. Well,
  • Rømer scale
  • the first calibrated general-use scale for temperature,
  • The scale
  • with increasing temperatures,
  • his starting temperature and his temperatures
  • Shortcomings
  • for temperatures greater than the boiling point
  • States of matter
  • at the extremes of pressure and temperature
  • Stefan-Boltzmann law
  • thermodynamic temperature,
  • The Stefan-Boltzmann law
  • gives us the temperature
  • to read an object’s temperature
  • Stratosphere
  • to record pressure, temperature, humidity, and winds
  • and discovered that the lapse rate of temperature
  • Stratospheric facts
  • Cold temperatures of the lower stratosphere
  • Stratification of temperatures
  • Superfluidity
  • forming density and temperature waves,
  • Thermocouple and thermopile
  • Put a temperature difference across it—
  • to measure the temperature,
  • To each his own
  • to know a temperature
  • temperatures.
  • Van Allen belts
  • five temperature sensors
  • Wedgwood scale
  • Josiah Wedgwood made a temperature gauge and scale
  • and where it rested marked the hottest temperature.
• template
  • Reverse transcriptase
  • generates DNA from an RNA template
• temple
  • Atomic number 29
  • The gates of the Temple of Jerusalem were
  • Lead
  • Lead statuette from the Temple of Osiris,
  • Step pyramid
  • and surrounded by courts, temples, colonnade,
  • Windmill
  • a temple novelty, the aeolipile, powered by jets of steam.
  • Wonders
  • Heron intended his machines as toys, tools, and temple wonders.
• tempo
  • Poème symphonique
  • set to different tempos,
• temporary
  • State secrets
  • is only temporary.
• temptation
  • Lords of the night
  • hurricanes, war, rulership, temptation,
• ten
  • Capacitance
  • up to ten thousand farads.
  • Celestial stems and terrestrial branches
  • using ten celestial stems
  • Computing devices
  • a ten-by-ten grid of holes
  • Conversion
  • to feel your pain as a four on a scale of ten,
  • Deciphering hieroglyphics
  • since 1801 at the age of ten,
  • Distance to a star
  • our galaxy is ten light-years away.
  • Egyptian calendar
  • Each month with three weeks of ten days,
  • Eighths
  • because eight is more easily divided than ten
  • but he deferred to the acceptance of counting based on ten,
  • The four causes
  • Married with four children, moved to ten states
  • Julian calendar
  • ten or eleven days short.
  • How to paint
  • Hu Zhengyan of the Ten Bamboo Studio
  • Measuring
  • one ten-millionth part of the quarter of a meridian,
  • Measuring comets
  • accurate to one ten-thousandth of an inch.
  • Metric system
  • and multiples of ten, one hundred, and so on—
  • Planetary distances
  • Jean Richer, to Cayenne, ten thousand kilometers away,
  • Planetary orbits
  • Ten years later
  • Poème symphonique
  • and started together by ten performers
  • Regen
  • in ten seconds.
  • Scoville scale
  • between one and ten thousand Scoville heat units.
  • Suanpan
  • on each rod to count in tens.
  • Sunspot cycle
  • cycle of ten years.
  • Units
  • and ten miles was a league.
  • Windmill
  • a ten-minute automated mechanical theatrical performance,
• tendency
  • Periodic table
  • Against the tendency of the universe toward disorder
  • of tendencies in the elements themselves to recombine
• tenth
  • Eighths
  • and the success of tenths in decimal arithmetic
  • Inaccuracies
  • being about six-tenths of a second too long.
  • Metric system
  • and proposed a system of tenths
  • such that subunits—tenths, hundredths,
  • Units
  • One tenth of a standard was a foot;
  • one tenth of a foot was an inch;
  • Vernier scale
  • are nine tenths of the divisions on the fixed scale,
  • gives you tenths to be added to the mark preceding the zero.
  • Wedgwood scale
  • and three-tenths of an inch apart at the bottom.
• tennis
  • Celluloid
  • Knife handles, slide rules, guitar picks, and table tennis balls.
  • Magnus effect
  • Isaac Newton remembered seeing a tennis ball
  • Tennis
  • I’d play tennis without a net,
  • How would this be ”tennis”?
• tensile
  • Fullerene
  • and have high tensile strength.
  • Modifications
  • tensile strength, conductivity, superconductivity,
• tension
  • Hygrometer designs
  • Attaching a hair under tension to a dial.
  • Marangoni effect
  • or maybe that’s just surface tension and gravity.
  • Mersenne’s laws
  • pitch is proportional to the square root of the tension.
  • Surface tension
  • Tears of wine
  • of surface tensions of water and alcohol.
  • and having a lower surface tension,
• tensor
  • Voigt effect
  • from dielectric cubic tensors.
• tenth
  • Eighths
  • and the success of tenths in decimal arithmetic
  • Metric system
  • and proposed a system of tenths
  • such that subunits—tenths, hundredths,
  • Sequence of results
  • (with tenths read from the secondary scale),
  • Units
  • One tenth of a standard was a foot;
  • one tenth of a foot was an inch;
• terbia
  • Erbium
  • Mosander named the rose oxide terbia,
  • but Berlin named terbia erbia,
  • so Marc Delafontaine named erbia terbia.
  • Named after Ytterby
  • and a rose oxide terbia.
  • and named it terbia.
  • Terbium
  • Mosander named the rose oxide terbia,
  • so he named terbia erbia.
  • Ytterbium
  • split terbia into terbia and (he called it) ytterbia,
  • Yttrium
  • yttria, erbia, and terbia.
• terbium
  • Atomic number 65
  • Terbium phosphors give the green color
  • to cause green fluorescence from terbium.
  • Terfenol-D, an alloy of terbium, dysprosium, and iron,
  • Terbium, neodymium, and dysprosium alloys
  • Terbium is used as a dopant in solid state devices
  • Samarium
  • in samarskite, but it was a mix of terbium and holmium.
  • Tweedledum and Tweedledee
  • Terbium and erbium
• terebatula
  • Peculiarities of the strata
  • identified by Modiola, Cardia, Ostreæ, Avicula, and Terebatulæ
  • identified by Pear Encrinus, Terebatulæ, and Ostreæ,
• terebinth
  • Enquiry into Plants
  • aspen, alder, filbert, terebinth, box, myrtle, cypress,
• terebratula
  • Peculiarities of the strata
  • identified by Terebratulæ Teeth, and Palates
  • Pectines, Terebratulæ, and Echini
• teredo
  • Peculiarities of the strata
  • Natali, Teredo, Crabs Teeth, and bones
• Terfenol-D
  • Atomic number 65
  • Terfenol-D, an alloy of terbium, dysprosium, and iron,
  • Atomic number 66
  • The “D” in the name of the magnetostrictive alloy Terfenol-D
• term
  • Algebra
  • introduced to the West not only the math but the terms
  • Allotropy
  • Berzelius coined the term meaning other behavior
  • Autism
  • Hans Asperger used the terms autistic psychopathy
  • Leo Kanner used the terms early infantile autism
  • Boolean algebra
  • Boole’s uninterpretable terms
  • Cheese scale
  • Industry terms such as
  • Chinese calendar
  • Each year is divided into 24 solar terms.
  • Each solar term is divided into three groups of days
  • Coinages
  • Whewell coined the terms “physicist,”
  • For Michael Faraday, Whewell suggested the terms
  • Conjunctions
  • All these terms seem metaphorical;
  • Crystal terms
  • Dinosaur
  • Owens coined the term “dinosaur.”
  • Discovery of an asteroid
  • In 1802 William Herschel coined the term
  • Ectoplasm
  • The term ectoplasm is also used
  • Electromagnetics
  • that George Johnstone Stoney’s term
  • Fractal
  • coined the term fractal
  • Hayflick limit
  • coined the term “Hayflick limit.”
  • Luigi Galvani
  • Volta coined the term ‘galvanic cell’
  • Metric system
  • The French term metre was based on the Greek
  • Naming species
  • combining a term for the genus,
  • with a series of distinguishing terms or phrases for the species,
  • by which a species is identified using only one term
  • Operations
  • reduces the equation to the fewest terms.
  • Proportional numbers
  • John Napier coined the term.
  • Terms
  • coined the term vaccination,
  • Terms
  • Thermoelectric effect
  • and coined the term thermoelectricity.
• terminal
  • Edison effect
  • near the positive terminal
  • Erinoid
  • Magneto Terminals, Collector Rings,
  • Fluorine
  • It corroded electric terminals.
  • with platinum and iridium terminals
  • Other bridges
  • Kelvin bridge, to measure four-terminal resistances.
• terminology
  • Virchow
  • with the smell of the past in quaint terminology,
• termite
  • Chimpanzees and humans
  • and carry it around to fish termites from their mounds.
• terne
  • Atomic number 50
  • terne, lead and zinc alloyed with tin, for steel plating,
• terra alba
  • Atomic number 20
  • Terra alba coagulates tofu.
• terracotta
  • Atomic number 24
  • of the buried terracotta army.
• terrella
  • Experimental method
  • a spherical magnet that he named a terrella.
  • The terrella mimicked the magnetic properties of the earth,
• terrestrial
  • Celestial stems and terrestrial branches
  • and twelve terrestrial branches
• territory
  • Auto
  • GPS navigation has an advantage in unfamiliar territory,
• terror
  • Superstition
  • died of terror.
• terrorism
  • Pressure of liberty
  • wars, genocides, terrorism,
• terrorist
  • Sleepers
  • Terrorist cells may hide
  • Terrorists will destroy both the weak and the strong
• tesla
  • Boundary layers
  • The blades of the Tesla turbines and pumps.
  • Electrical units
  • The tesla
  • honors Nikola Tesla
  • Employees
  • Nikola Tesla worked briefly for Edison
  • Resonance
  • Nikola Tesla’s wireless power transmission
• tetroxide
  • Iridium and osmium
  • osmium tetroxide, which he distilled from the solution.
• test
  • Being a Native American poet
  • Only a genetic test could determine
  • Benzene
  • By additional tests and measurements, Michael Faraday
  • Cathode ray vision
  • top to bottom, to illuminate a test pattern
  • Common equipment
  • Thermometers, tongs, and test tubes, check.
  • Now we’re ready to test mysterious substances.
  • Crookes paddlewheel
  • a test to determine
  • Difficult man
  • He said, “if disease put us to the test,
  • Flame test
  • Gadolinium
  • was muddying tests of Mosander’s derivation from cerite.
  • Genetic distance
  • does not use genetic tests
  • Heat agents
  • One advantage of an organoleptic test
  • Mohs scale
  • is easy to determine with a scratch test,
  • Organoleptic test
  • The first bite tests only the breadth.
  • Other hardness scales
  • and his ball hardness test for wood, 1906,
  • and their rebound hardness test method, 1975,
  • Pattern recognition
  • Diagnostic tests have false negatives and false positives.
  • Philosophical hypothesis
  • has been subject to elaborate tests.
  • Tests
  • Turing test
  • and he proposed a simple test.
  • Vitalism
  • assembled the stuff of protoplasm in a test tube,
  • Vitamers
  • but failed to pass the test, leaving
• tester
  • Other hardness scales
  • and his ball indentation tester, 1900,
  • and his indentation tester, 1908,
  • and his microhardness tester, 1939,
  • and their pendulum testers for paint and other coatings
• testicle
  • Luigi Galvani
  • that a frog’s testicles
• testing
  • Atomic number 64
  • Gadolinium-153 emits gamma rays for testing bone density.
  • Composition
  • to obtain a sample for testing.
  • Experimental medicine
  • For testing the potency of a drug through experimentation:
  • Begin testing with a weak dose and gradually increase
  • Intelligence testing
  • Other hardness scales
  • and his hammer for testing concrete, 1975,
  • Wind tunnel
  • in testing his theories
  • by building and testing manned gliders,
• testimony
  • Microorganisms
  • It turned out that on good testimony
• tetrahemihexahedron
  • Euler characteristic
  • The χ of a tetrahemihexahedron is 1
• tetramer
  • Monomers, dimers, and hexamers
  • Not trimers, tetramers, pentamers,
  • Actually, it forms trimers, tetramers, and pentamers,
• Texas
  • Strains
  • and the Ames strain, collected from a heifer in Texas in 1981.
• text
  • Bacon’s cipher
  • in which each 1 is represented in an unrelated page of text
  • Bacon’s codes
  • with different widths to use in justifying text.
  • you would find that Francis Bacon wove into the printed text
  • Deciphering hieroglyphics
  • The Rosetta stone gave the same text
  • Elements
  • so that the text can simply reference them.
  • Geocentrism
  • wrote the definitive texts
  • Zero
  • is the first known text to describe how to use zero as a number.
• textbook
  • The Canon of Medicine
  • and became a standard medical textbook in Europe
  • Geometry
  • wrote the textbook on mathematics,
  • The individual
  • The textbook on evolution
  • Ohm’s law
  • by writing a textbook on geometry
  • Sociobiology
  • but he wrote the textbook on it,
• texture
  • Halloween deceptions
  • to give unshapen forms angle and texture
  • Handedness
  • saturation, texture, pattern, translucence, wetness, and shape.
  • Spherical symmetry
  • of uniform color and texture
• thallium
  • Atomic number 81
  • thallium is extremely toxic
  • Atomic number 88
  • polonium, lead, thallium, and bismuth.
  • Indium
  • and looked for the green lines of thallium
  • My thallium
  • with my thallium.
• thallophyte
  • Protests
  • thallophytes and unicellular algae.
• Thames
  • Submarine
  • including King James, underwater in the Thames
• that
  • More of this about that
• thawing
  • Ice cycles
  • Cycles of thawing and freezing
• Theaetetus
  • Mastering
  • perfected theorems by Theaetetus,
• theater
  • Acoustics
  • on the acoustics of theaters,
  • Science
  • rhetoric, theater, and zoology
• them
  • Cross-disciplinary work
  • (mocking the ritual of us versus them).
• theme
  • Dinosaur
  • to construct a Dinosauria theme park
• Thénard
  • Silicon
  • Louis Jacques Thénard might have obtained
  • that Gay-Lussac and Thénard used
• theodolite
  • Dividing engine
  • theodolite, and telescopic mount,
• Theodoric
  • Anesthesia
  • Hugh of Lucca and his son Theodoric used similar mixtures
• theologian
  • Catastrophist geology
  • consistent with the views of Christian theologians
  • Noah’s flood
  • According to early Christian theologians,
• Theophrastus
  • Mohs scale
  • a means described by Theophrastus
  • Pyroelectricity
  • Theophrastus found that tourmaline
• theorem
  • Balance
  • We should apply Bayes’ theorem
  • Bayes’ interpreters
  • so I might have been writing about Laplace’s theorem.
  • Bayes’ theorem
  • Convergence
  • Newton generalized the binomial theorem
  • Dante’s theorem
  • Diophantine equation
  • Diophantine solutions of the Pythagorean theorem
  • Fundamental theorem of calculus
  • Geometry
  • each theorem rigorously proven,
  • Incompleteness theorems
  • Irrational triples
  • the Pythagorean theorem
  • Mastering
  • reworked theorems by Eudoxus of Cnidus,
  • perfected theorems by Theaetetus,
  • Noether’s theorem
  • Reynolds things
  • about the Reynolds transport theorem,
  • Sense of things
  • Noether’s theorem suggests
  • Thales’ theorem
  • Thales’ theorem
  • Proof of the Pythagorean theorem
  • Fundamental theorem of calculus
• theorist
  • Communities of cells
  • as promoted by rival theorists.
• theortar
  • Portmanteaus
  • Theortars, fantasars, and other creatates of scientiction,
• theory
  • Altruism
  • Arguments against Darwin’s theory of natural selection
  • Another theory
  • Ansatz
  • It was only a theory
  • Atomic kinetic thermodynamics
  • in the kinetic theory of gases, but at the time
  • Atomic theory
  • Baconian theories
  • Others published more outlandish theories—
  • My theory is better proven—
  • BCS theory
  • Boveri-Sutton chromosome theory
  • Catastrophist geology
  • Meanwhile, Hutton had already proposed the theory
  • Cell theory
  • Changes of state
  • modified the kinetic theory of gases
  • Chaos theory
  • Codiscoveries
  • Neither thought that oxygen disproved phlogiston theory
  • This overthrew phlogiston theory.
  • Coinages
  • “catastrophism” (the theory that geological changes don’t happen gradually),
  • Competence
  • for genetics and evolutionary theory.
  • Difficult man
  • He ridiculed the theory that disease
  • their theories were never tested.
  • Dynamo theory
  • Earth cycles
  • In his Theory of the Earth,
  • Einstein taught
  • Einstein’s theory of relativity
  • Famous prisms
  • to discover his theory of color.
  • Fibonacci sequence
  • theories of beauty, or stock market analysis.
  • Flexoelectricity
  • a quantum-mechanical theory
  • Game theory
  • A genius of his time
  • Cuvier was implacably against any theory of evolution,
  • Germ theory
  • Graph theory
  • Guessing theory
  • Holes in the theory
  • Hooke’s interests
  • Hooke created a theory of gravity and planetary motion,
  • and developed a complete and modern theory of memory.
  • Human anatomy
  • Vesalius accepted Galen’s theory of the circulation of the blood,
  • Humoral theory
  • Hutton’s unconformity
  • for the material evidence of their theories.
  • Hutton’s theories were not constrained
  • Ice age
  • supporting the theory—
  • Information theory
  • James Clerk Maxwell
  • extended Michael Faraday’s theories of electromagnetism
  • according to his theory, Heinrich Hertz
  • confirmed Maxwell’s theory that the rings of Saturn
  • Kelvin scale
  • based on Sadi Carnot’s theory of the motive power of heat.
  • Knot theory
  • Medical research
  • Galen combined the theories
  • Galen’s medical theories
  • The method
  • not the validity of the theory behind it,
  • Myths of the interior
  • conspiracy theories,
  • Noah’s flood
  • subservient to a theory
  • Personal connections
  • and published critiques of Volta’s theory
  • Phylogeny
  • in different theories that emphasize different things.
  • Plasma cosmology
  • Could the theory of double layers
  • Positive displacement pump
  • of the discharge pressure—in theory.
  • The power of a name
  • If fact doesn’t conform to theory
  • Probability theory
  • Quasiparticles
  • Fermi liquid theory, 1956
  • Reflecting telescope
  • and alloy of tin and copper, to prove his theory of color
  • Sagnac effect
  • (according to Einstein’s theory of special relativity),
  • Smeaton, too
  • and developed a theory of how
  • Stoichiometry
  • John Dalton’s atomic theory,
  • Theories
  • Theory
  • Theories of action
  • For many years, erroneous theories
  • One modern theory depends on mechanistic
  • Another theory asserts that the drugs
  • Theory of color
  • Theory of light
  • Theories of memory
  • Trade winds
  • Even though Hadley’s theory
  • Unacceptable explanations
  • that black holes existed outside of theory.
  • Universal gravitation
  • until Einstein taught in his theory of general relativity
  • leads to the theory that the distortion of the universe
  • Van Allen belts
  • Birkeland’s theories were ridiculed
  • Wind tunnel
  • in testing his theories
  • to test his theories about how birds fly,
  • Yttrium
  • and a promoter of the theories of Antoine Lavoisier,
  • and also a promoter of the theories of Antoine Lavoisier,
• therapy
  • Phage therapy
  • Sugar pills
  • enhances any therapy.
• there
  • Hawking radiation
  • But there in space it sits,
  • No limit
  • There is a give
  • But there is no limit
• thermion
  • Thermion dance
  • dancing on that surface, dance thermions.
  • thermions cannot stay on, and so they slip,
  • Thermions slip like drops of mist, float
  • Thermionic emission
  • so they called it a thermion.
• thermocline
  • On a spinning planet
  • pushing the thermocline down
  • pulling the thermocline up
• thermocouple
  • Thermocouple and thermopile
  • which is called a thermocouple,
• thermodynamics
  • Atomic kinetic thermodynamics
  • Inherent motion
  • On the quantum scale, laws of thermodynamics are questionable.
  • Noether’s theorem
  • that is, the first law of thermodynamics,
  • Radiative effect
  • Without the second law of thermodynamics,
  • Thermodynamics says something about being cool
• thermoelectricity
  • Thermoelectric effect
  • and coined the term thermoelectricity.
• thermometer
  • Aethrioscope
  • Put a differential thermometer
  • Atomic number 80
  • and used in thermometers and as electrodes in chemical processing.
  • Common equipment
  • Thermometers, tongs, and test tubes, check.
  • Dad said
  • They said freezing depends on where you place the thermometer.
  • Fahrenheit scale
  • who made barometers, altimeters, and thermometers.
  • He invented the mercury-in-glass thermometer in 1714.
  • Gas-discharge lamp
  • in a thermometer could glow when it was handled,
  • Hygrometer designs
  • Comparing readings from wet-bulb and dry-bulb thermometers.
  • Ventillating wet-bulb and dry-bulb thermometers with a wind-up fan
  • Infrared
  • Nurses point infrared thermometers at your forehead,
  • Magnetic thermometer
  • Metabolism
  • He invented the clinical thermometer,
  • Multiple instruments
  • No one thermometer design
  • Nansen bottle
  • thermometer with a bottle, both being triggered
  • Platinum pyrometer
  • with a mercury thermometer at low temperatures
  • Previous thermometers
  • a sealed-glass thermometer using brandy.
  • made sealed-glass thermometers with bulbs containing alcohol.
  • that invented a thermometer and named it after Galileo
  • The Galileo thermometer features small glass bulbs
  • a pressure-independent air thermometer for use aboard a ship.
  • Réaumur scale
  • If you have a thermometer with a large bulb filled with alcohol
  • Resistance thermometer
  • could be used to make a thermometer.
  • would be the best metal for a resistance thermometer,
  • Rømer scale
  • For the liquid in his thermometer,
  • Shortcomings
  • The Réaumur thermometers were no good
• thermophile
  • More like you and me
  • that tiny halophiles, thermophiles,
• thermopile
  • Thermocouple and thermopile
  • which is called a thermopile.
• thermoscope
  • Disregarding authority
  • invented the thermoscope,
  • Previous thermometers
  • Galileo invented the thermoscope by 1593,
  • was the first to put a scale on a thermoscope.
• thesaurus
  • Universal babble (with dates)
  • with radicals from Roget’s thesaurus
• thiamine
  • Vitamers
  • thiamine (B₁),
  • Vitamin discoveries
  • that was later identified as thiamine, vitamin B₁.
• thiazolidine
  • Structure of penicillin
  • fused to a five-membered thiazolidine ring.
• thickness
  • Atomic number 61
  • and for measuring the thickness of materials.
  • Good standing
  • sanding thickness from the belly
  • Little g
  • and by the thickness and density of the earth beneath you,
• thief
  • Gold
  • and thieves have thwarted
• thimble
  • Hygrometer designs
  • Drawing air through a silver thimble full of ether until the thimble dulls.
• thin
  • Atomic number 51
  • favored “the kind with long thin fibers
• thing
  • Activation energy
  • things can happen.
  • After the performance
  • Things get sorted out
  • as though things matter
  • Another element
  • If such a thing were possible—
  • Apparitions
  • If great things have passed me by
  • Arbitrary decisions
  • as things got hotter.
  • however, things can be arbitrary and people
  • As for why he does the things he does
  • but as for why he does the things he does,
  • Automata
  • have their own behaviors like living things.
  • Baconian theories
  • an infinite number of things if we wanted
  • to present these things . . . as a miracle.”
  • A bad thing happens
  • Becoming common
  • of how things work together
  • Besoin
  • Over time, these things have improved our world
  • Bizarre stuff
  • This kind of thing, bizarre
  • Blinded by love
  • Seeing things, hearing voices,
  • Bunsen burner
  • Chemists need to heat and burn things.
  • Cartouche
  • For the odd looping thing like a whip that follows,
  • Cell theory
  • or of things that are made by cells.
  • or of things that are made by cells.
  • Cerebral localizations
  • if there’s any such thing
  • Change of flux
  • We have places to go, and things to do.
  • Combustion
  • most thought that things burned
  • he found it permitted things to burn
  • Completeness
  • There are many things
  • Cosmetic pigment
  • adding things like ochre, malachite, burnt almonds,
  • Counting and naming
  • for all the things we depend on
  • and all the things that threaten us.
  • Cutting through to the essence
  • even though all kinds of odd things happen
  • Development
  • Ducklings follow the first thing they lay their eyes on
  • Discovery of Neptune
  • A thing that had been nameless
  • Ectoplasm
  • except that people can call things what they want.
  • Ephemeri
  • God created many things
  • Essential stuff
  • all things are one and you are one with all.
  • Everything’s a battery
  • as any living thing, animal or vegetable,
  • Evolution
  • to remember things for us.
  • Exceedingly little
  • Exceedingly rare qualities, rare things
  • Fields
  • things that our senses
  • Foolish bird
  • New things are always easier
  • Genetic distance
  • and when two living things produce an offspring by meiosis
  • Gibbs free energy
  • a set of things that can exchange
  • God, myth, man
  • then his calendar would show how things could be
  • Good standing
  • and many things known by experienced craftsmen,
  • Halloween deceptions
  • We poke at things in the dark
  • that things conform to our analogies.
  • Heat engines
  • living things have free will or are merely
  • driven by things they can’t control.
  • Ice age
  • and discussed these things
  • Ideal gases
  • You can sometimes see a thing
  • The impermanence of war
  • Whereas things worth defending
  • In a vacuum
  • It’s a sea of all kinds of things.
  • In the real world
  • to figure things out.
  • Kinematics
  • could describe only abstract immutable things.
  • Laws of thermodynamics
  • We go from a few things that are fast and hot
  • yet, somehow, living things
  • Lead poisoning
  • The odd thing is for many, many years,
  • Leviathan of Parsonstown
  • can accomplish great things,
  • Macro and micro
  • we appreciate things
  • Making connections
  • To say a thing is possible
  • Making one thing out of another
  • to make one thing out of another.
  • Making things happen
  • Mathematical modeling
  • of hidden differences between similar things
  • and hidden similarities between different things).
  • The meaning of oxygen
  • that is, that oxygen was the principle that made things acidic.
  • Measuring
  • although few things
  • Miasmas
  • Letting experts take care of things.
  • Miracles
  • We can’t explain these things.
  • Mysterious rays
  • Hummingbirds and bugs may see things
  • Natural canvas
  • Any natural thing with a power to move people
  • The new
  • It’s difficult to explain things to those who don’t know much,
  • Not by accident
  • Sometimes things click
  • Only bones
  • You would be surprised by the number of useless things
  • Overhearing
  • The universe is full of things,
  • Pale green
  • Extremely toxic to all living things,
  • Parasitism
  • Kleptoparasites steal things from their hosts,
  • Pauli exclusion principle/Exchange interaction
  • realized that he could simplify things by assuming
  • The perspective of time
  • Things larger than life grow smaller
  • Philosophical language
  • the natures of the ideas and things they represented,
  • He began with “the Enumeration of things and notions
  • Phylogeny
  • in different theories that emphasize different things.
  • Places
  • Is it a myth that particular things have to happen
  • Rare dyes
  • as though the symbolic importance of a thing
  • Rare earths
  • but like the dirt that green things grow in.
  • Remnants and traces
  • where some of these things came from.
  • Reynolds things
  • Sagittarius A*
  • only emissions from things that orbit it.
  • The same
  • For many things the thing itself and its simulation are the same.
  • Self-similarity
  • a good thing.
  • Sense of scale
  • The bulk of living things on Earth
  • in the scale of things,
  • Sense of things
  • that things make sense,
  • Shape
  • I’m working things out
  • Small black holes
  • grow by absorbing things that matter,
  • Spark of being
  • from simple living things.
  • Speech speach
  • In our study of how things have gone bad
  • Spontaneous generation
  • that spontaneously generated living things.
  • Stratigraphy
  • how fossils could be derived from living things,
  • Stuff that jinxes
  • and making things go awry.
  • Stuff that rusts
  • in things that moths and rust corrupt,
  • Stuff that shines
  • a thing’s intrinsic value
  • Stuff that sticks
  • things get a little sticky.
  • Stuff that tarnishes
  • between the real thing, made of base metals,
  • Sugar pills
  • We try to say things
  • Supernova
  • who saw these things
  • Tautology
  • The only important thing
  • Theories of memory
  • that material shells and images of things
  • Thinking
  • I mean other things
  • Time and logic
  • nothing; what is logic? Only that each thing
  • Toxicology
  • Alle Dinge sind Gift (All things are poison)
  • macht nur die Dosis etwas (only the dose makes a thing)
  • Uniformitarianism
  • Things tend to take a lot of time
  • Things tend to fall
  • Things tend to die
  • Units of life
  • of all known living things.
  • Universal gravitation
  • That all things in the universe
  • Unknowns
  • but for many things there are no wrong ways.
  • Variable unknown
  • of a variable thing,
  • Virchow
  • an anonymous contributor of many things
  • Vital principle
  • Living things inhabit everything
  • Waste
  • and becoming irritable about unimportant things,
• think
  • Lead poisoning
  • people didn’t think that lead was bad for us.
  • Nothing
  • and it makes me think
• thinking
  • Electrum
  • into thinking they were trying to make real gold,
  • Energy
  • Even thinking about it consumes calories.
  • Essential stuff
  • Opposed to this analytic way of thinking:
  • Silver
  • Actually, we’re thinking about silver;
  • Thinking
  • Turing test
  • thinking and consciousness?
  • Unhandy
  • But thinking isn’t easy,
• third
  • Distance to a star
  • was one third of a second of an arc
  • Erbium
  • he named the third after the trailing letters, erb.
  • Euler’s number
  • The third was e,
  • Fields
  • Third, a field is an extent.
  • Koch snowflake
  • Replace the middle third
  • Mapping speech
  • identified the third frontal convolution
  • Mersenne’s laws
  • Finally, Marin Mersenne added the third law—
  • Pandemics
  • In the third cholera pandemic
  • Protist
  • Plantae, and a third kingdom Lapides, the rocks.
  • “Scientist”
  • During the third annual meeting
  • Spiral galaxies
  • William Parsons, third earl of Rosse,
  • Step pyramid
  • Visier of the first pharaoh of the third dynasty,
  • Submarine principles
  • The third difficulty was how to propel the craft
  • Symbols
  • short for τρίτον meaning “third”—
  • Terbium
  • And guess what he called the third one.
  • Vibrio cholerae
  • During the third cholera pandemic
  • Z
  • the third axis,
• thirst
  • Peril
  • they will starve or die of thirst.
• thirteen
  • Antikythera mechanism
  • Egyptian names for thirteen months
  • Inaccuracies
  • varies by about thirteen and a half hours,
  • Maya calendar
  • The first counted thirteen k'ins, 1 through 13.
  • Medical research
  • for more than thirteen hundred years.
  • Meson
  • It took thirteen years
  • Observations by John Smeaton
  • of about thirteen inches diameter,
  • Other electrical telegraphs
  • installed in 1838 on thirteen miles of the Great Western Railway
  • Pandemics
  • one hundred thirteen thousand died in Italy;
  • Petri net
  • At the age of thirteen,
• thirteenth
  • Anesthesia
  • as an inhaled anesthetic in the thirteenth century.
  • Egyptian calendar
  • the Egyptians added a thirteenth month of five days,
• thirty
  • Antikythera mechanism
  • and thirty-eight eclipses of the moon,
  • Atomic number 85
  • Astatine has at least thirty-nine isotopes
  • Computing devices
  • with at least thirty gears
  • Egyptian calendar
  • each with four months of thirty days.
  • one of the thirty-six constellations that ring the sky.
  • Francium
  • has at least thirty four isotopes.
  • Hard to obtain
  • more than thirty times
  • Island of stability
  • Only seven of the remaining thirty-three elements
  • Mars Works
  • and employed thirty-five workers to build heavy machinery, castings,
  • Metabolism
  • and for thirty years
  • Oruktor Amphibolos
  • thirty feet long, twelve feet wide,
  • Pandemics
  • sixty-five-hundred thirty-six died in London.
  • and thirty-five hundred died in Chicago.
  • thirty thousand died in Hungary;
  • thirty thousand died in Belgium;
  • Regen
  • zero to thirty-five
  • Shades of Prussian blue
  • the first of his thirty-six views of Mount Fuji,
  • the second of his thirty-six views of Mount Fuji,
  • Telescoping history
  • that magnified thirty times
  • Vibrio cholerae
  • Thirty years later, working in Egypt and India
  • What can you make with nanotubes?
  • since it would have to be thirty-five thousand kilometers long.
• this
  • More of this about that
  • This might be why
• Thomson
  • Did he
  • three years later Thomson discovered electrons
  • Electromagnetics
  • J. J. Thomson calculated their charge-to-mass ratio,
  • should name Thomson’s corpuscles.
  • Increasing vacuum
  • J. J. Thomson weighed the cathode rays to show that they
  • Langmuir waves
  • subject to Landau damping and Thomson scattering.
  • Silicon
  • Thomas Thomson thought it was a non-metal
  • Vapor-compression refrigeration
  • also known as the Joule-Thomson orifice,
• Thor
  • Thorium
  • and named it after the Norse god Thor.
• thorium
  • Atomic number 86
  • Uranium and thorium, long-lived
  • Atomic number 90
  • Thorium is a soft ductile metal,
  • Atomic number 91
  • Thorium-233 decays
  • of uranium, thorium, and protactinium
  • Atomic number 92
  • elements—protactinium, thorium, actinium,
  • Different isotopes for different folks
  • and called it thorium-A.
  • and called it thorium-C.
  • Dynamo heat
  • and radioactivity of potassium, uranium and thorium.
  • Francium
  • which decayed to thorium-227 and francium-223.
  • Radon
  • observed that thorium
  • called it Thorium Emanation.
• thorn
  • Enquiry into Plants
  • cornel, cedar, oriental thorn, hawthorn, holly, medlar,
• thought
  • Artificial mashups
  • We implement thought experiments
  • Cellular automaton
  • This could eventually lead, he thought,
  • Ceres
  • impervious to the thoughts of remote observers.
  • Contiguity
  • moving, faster than thought, at the speed of light.
  • Philosophical hypothesis
  • The hypothesis that language determines our thoughts
  • to see if their thought-processes improve.
  • Sans relativity
  • in physicists’ thought experiments
  • Suanpan
  • to perform calculations with minimal thought.
  • Transforms
  • listening to your thoughts,
• thoughtlessness
  • Suanpan
  • Cultivate thoughtlessness
• thought-processes
  • Philosophical hypothesis
  • to see if their thought-processes improve.
• thousand
  • Air pollution
  • The Great Smog of 1952 killed thousands of people.
  • Artificial mashups
  • We clone them into bacteria by the thousands
  • Astronomy
  • than anyone else for three thousand years.
  • Atomic number 47
  • and worked by thousands of slaves
  • Atomic number 93
  • for storing this waste for thousands of years.
  • Benzene
  • a thousand cubic feet of illuminating gas into bottles
  • Bolometer
  • at 238 thousand miles.
  • Calcium
  • goes way back, before over seven thousand years BCE.
  • Capacitance
  • up to ten thousand farads.
  • Catastrophist geology
  • were laid down and deformed over a few thousand years
  • who claimed that the world was only six thousand years old.
  • Discovery of an asteroid
  • Cataloging the six thousand
  • Now thousands of asteroids have been numbered,
  • and number one thousand
  • Electric conductivity
  • consisting of two thousand double plates of zinc and copper
  • Fathul Mujahidin
  • about five thousand rocket men.
  • Heritage
  • five thousand years ago in Germany.
  • From five thousand years ago, Egyptians
  • Homo neanderthalensis
  • for a hundred thousand years
  • Imhotep, the myth
  • and for the two thousand years,
  • The impermanence of war
  • launched thousands of rockets,
  • Imprints
  • of a thousand volumes, reprinted with bronze movable type.
  • It doesn’t exist
  • like almost a thousand years.
  • Keeling curve
  • from the last eight hundred thousand years.
  • Muon power
  • over a thousand muons per square foot per minute
  • Naming species
  • ten thousand species.
  • Pandemics
  • hundreds of thousands of people died
  • One hundred thousand died in Russia;
  • twenty thousand died in Paris
  • and another eighty thousand died in the rest of France;
  • up to two hundred thousand died in Tokyo,
  • twenty-three thousand died in England.
  • one hundred and sixty-five thousand died in the Austrian Empire;
  • seventy thousand died in Zanzibar;
  • eighty thousand died in Algeria;
  • thirty thousand died in Hungary;
  • thirty thousand died in Belgium;
  • twenty thousand died in Holland;
  • one hundred thirteen thousand died in Italy;
  • fifty thousand died in North America.
  • ninety thousand died in Japan;
  • sixty thousand died in Persia;
  • more than fifty-eight thousand died in Egypt;
  • two-hundred-sixty-seven thousand died in Russia;
  • two-hundred-fifty thousand died in Europe;
  • and fifty thousand died in the Americas.
  • eight-hundred thousand died in India;
  • two-hundred thousand died in the Philippines;
  • five-hundred thousand died in Russia.
  • Over five-hundred-seventy thousand died worldwide.
  • Pi
  • and three thousand seventy-two sides,
  • Planetary distances
  • Jean Richer, to Cayenne, ten thousand kilometers away,
  • Rocket
  • of a hundred thousand men.
  • Scoville scale
  • between two and a half and five thousand Scoville heat units.
  • between one and ten thousand Scoville heat units.
  • between one and four hundred thousand Scoville heat units.
  • The story of kites
  • was a thousand years later.
  • Units
  • one thousand standards was a mile;
  • Universal babble (with dates)
  • combining over two-thousand unspoken symbols
  • What can you make with nanotubes?
  • or about a thousand times wider than a nanotube.
  • since it would have to be thirty-five thousand kilometers long.
  • Woodblock printing
  • of more than forty thousand characters,
• thousandth
  • Electromagnetics
  • showed their mass was about a thousandth of a hydrogen atom.
  • Measuring comets
  • accurate to one ten-thousandth of an inch.
• thread
  • Corks and cans
  • suspended on a silk thread
  • Difference engine
  • attached through the harness to multiple threads
  • E26 screw
  • seven threads per inch
  • Lenses
  • by melting the tip of a thin thread of glass
• threat
  • 99% human
  • in practice means we can kill any threat
  • Equilibrium in flux
  • the threat.
• three
  • Astronomy
  • the circle with three hundred and sixty degrees.
  • than anyone else for three thousand years.
  • Benzene ring
  • The six carbons use their three remaining bonds
  • Boolean algebra
  • and three operations,
  • Cadmium
  • Three chemists—
  • Cathode ray vision
  • or to bleep from eleven to three.
  • Chinese calendar
  • Each solar term is divided into three groups of days
  • Conversion
  • I’d walk one point six oh nine three four four kilometers
  • in your size twenty three point eight centimeter shoes
  • Conway’s Game of Life
  • With exactly three neighbors, it’s born.
  • With two or three neighbors, it lives.
  • With fewer than two or more than three, it dies.
  • Did he
  • three years later Thomson discovered electrons
  • Egyptian calendar
  • Three seasons changed with the behavior of the Nile,
  • Each month with three weeks of ten days,
  • Ekman spiral
  • three hundred feet below the surface.
  • Escapements
  • reducing the swing of a pendulum to as little as three degrees,
  • Fibonacci sequence
  • One and one is two; one and two is three;
  • two and three is five and so forth;
  • Gastrulation of the blastulation
  • The gastrulation of the blastula gives three layers
  • Geometry
  • for twenty-three centuries.
  • Germ layers
  • discovered that gastrulation produces three cell layers.
  • Guncotton
  • In the 1830s three French chemists
  • In 1846, three chemists independently discovered
  • Hazards
  • that moves at three times the speed of sound.
  • Human anatomy
  • and a human sternum has three parts, not like an ape with its seven.
  • Inaccuracies
  • every two or three years the year gets an extra lunar month
  • Intercalaries
  • (every three or four years) at the end of February.
  • Interesting aspects
  • having sunset occur when three medium-size stars are visible,
  • Irrational triples
  • sets of three
  • Island of stability
  • Only seven of the remaining thirty-three elements
  • Julian calendar
  • gains about three days
  • Lenses
  • and let him adjust its position in three dimensions.
  • Ode to allicin
  • three-garlic pasta with three garlics spiced
  • Pi
  • and three thousand seventy-two sides,
  • Practical uses
  • to blast three men to the moon.
  • Promethium
  • went to the chemical-separation building every three days.
  • Provinance
  • Three unframed woodblock prints,
  • Public-key cryptography
  • Now each derives a shared sum of the three values.
  • so that now each has a mix of the three values.
  • Radium
  • that was three million times
  • Radon
  • Niton and the three emanations
  • Science in his day
  • his herbal medicines were in use for three hundred years.
  • Shades of Prussian blue
  • uses three shades of Prussian blue to depict the waves.
  • uses three shades of Prussian blue to depict the sky.
  • Slide rule
  • three scales on each part,
  • and three parts, the center free to slide.
  • Spreading fire
  • The singijeon was developed in three sizes.
  • Steganography
  • a hundred forms of secret writing into a three-volume treatise
  • Synchronicity
  • even if only three made it to a distant shore.
  • Telescoping history
  • three times.
  • Thales’ theorem
  • and the three angles of a triangle add up to 180 degrees.
  • Three-domain system
  • Too soon
  • for silver and three kinds
  • these three metals were
  • Wedgwood scale
  • and three-tenths of an inch apart at the bottom.
• three-quarters
  • Other electrical telegraphs
  • put up a wire running nearly three-quarters of a mile
• throne
  • Spiritual blue
  • but it is written that it was like the throne of glory
• throwback
  • Training
  • might be a throwback to an evolutionary stage
• Thule
  • Thulium
  • and thulia after Thule (Scandinavia).
• thulia
  • Thulium
  • that he called holmia and thulia.
  • and thulia was the green one.
  • and thulia after Thule (Scandinavia).
• thulium
  • Atomic number 69
  • Holmium, chromium, and thulium
  • Radioactive thulium isotopes
  • Thulium fluoresces blue
  • Dysprosium
  • separated holmium and thulium from erbium oxide,
  • Holmium
  • Cleve isolated from erbia oxides for it and thulium
  • Thulium
  • Thulium’s chemical symbol, Tm,
• thumb
  • Cartoon anesthetics
  • by smashing the opposite thumb with a hammer.
  • Loxodromes
  • following a simple rule of thumb.
  • The thumb fits into a glove. The outfielder
  • Proof of the Pythagorean theorem
  • This great rule of thumb was known
• thump
  • Hydraulic thump
  • down the pipe and THUMP
  • came to the farm and THUMP
• thunderbolt
  • Atomic number 6
  • and related them to Indra’s thunderbolt.
• thunder-clap
  • Devices
  • Thunder-clap bombs.
• thundercrash
  • Rocket
  • used “thundercrash bombs,”
• thunderstorm
  • Sparks
  • With a thunderstorm approaches,
• thyroid
  • Atomic number 53
  • And protecting the thyroid from nuclear fallout
• Tibetian
  • Atomic number 80
  • Chinese and Tibetians, and, later, Grecians,
• ticarcillin
  • Adding to the core
  • carbenicillin, ticarcillin, and piperacillin,
• tick
  • Chimpanzees and humans
  • combing each other’s hair for dirt or ticks.
  • Escapements
  • driving the crown wheel backward a little during each tick and tock.
  • The good host
  • Ticks, lice, and scabies
  • Milieu interieur
  • Every tick of the clock winds it down;
• ticker-tape
  • Inventions
  • the ticker-tape machine,
• tide
  • Inaccuracies
  • but it turns out that the tides
• tiger
  • Celestial stems and terrestrial branches
  • six of the tiger
  • Wallace line
  • along the Wallace line separated tigers
• tile
  • Peculiarities of the strata
  • which make the best bricks and tiles in the island
  • Replica
  • with blue Egyptian faience tile
• tiller
  • Automobile
  • connected to a tiller,
• tilting
  • Principles of geology
  • uplifting, tilting, buckling,
• Timation
  • Global Positioning System
  • 1967 came the Timation satellites,
• Timbuctoo
  • Projections
  • You might never go to Timbuctoo
• time
  • Action at a distance
  • a curvature of space and time. Magnetism
  • How does mass or energy bend space and time?
  • Alchemy
  • more easily than an alchemist can waste his time.
  • Allotropy
  • Knowing nothing at the time about
  • Analysis
  • and enough time.
  • Antiparticles seem to go backward in time
  • as though it were an electron moving backward in time.
  • Antiseptic surgery
  • for the first time
  • Archaeopteryx
  • giving us a time, a precedent,
  • Assumptions
  • At the time, the speed of light
  • Atomic kinetic thermodynamics
  • in the kinetic theory of gases, but at the time
  • Auto
  • compiles over time without effort
  • Bayes’ theorem
  • only 80 percent of the time
  • Benzene lamp
  • to produce a constant light for a length of time
  • Besoin
  • Over time, these things have improved our world
  • Bismuth
  • in ancient times.
  • Cadmium
  • independently, and at the same time,
  • Cerebral localizations
  • to fix the moment in time,
  • Change of flux
  • matter has gravity to warp time and space,
  • Cipher
  • One-time pad, 1882
  • Completeness
  • some for lack of time
  • Computing devices
  • could calculate the time of day
  • based on the time of day.
  • for any date and time,
  • calculated the times of planetary conjunctions
  • Copper
  • By this time people knew
  • Counting and naming
  • We begin counting at the beginning of time.
  • Cro-Magnons
  • lived together far back in time.
  • Derivative and integral
  • For a function giving velocity over time,
  • For a function giving the velocity over time,
  • because distance is velocity times time,
  • Doable stuff
  • It may take us a long time;
  • Drifting from a time
  • Eating it
  • Over time, let us see;
  • Eighths
  • time being theoretically related to longitude
  • Electric addiction
  • There was a time when mankind
  • Electrical units
  • who related magnetism to mass, charge, and time.
  • about the same time as Michael Faraday.
  • The electrical researches of the Honourable Henry Cavendish
  • “that iron wire conducts about 400 million times”
  • and “sea water . . . conducts 100 times”
  • Electric battery
  • Now, for the first time,
  • Enquiry into Plants
  • whether times of shedding or budding vary,
  • Ephemeri
  • that last only for a time
  • Evolution
  • when we invented time.
  • Experimental medicine
  • Consider the time it takes for the drug to take effect.
  • Fact and ritual
  • hoping, at the same time, for the best.
  • Factory prototype
  • have an easier time, being simpler
  • Fermat’s principle
  • so that the two rays arrive at the same time.
  • Feynman diagram
  • against time, in which
  • Flexibility
  • There might come a time
  • The four causes
  • (the air force defining the times and places),
  • A genius of his time
  • Geodesy
  • whereas at the same time in Alexandria
  • Good advice
  • They say that time heals, but it can also
  • Gravity dilates time
  • Hard to obtain
  • more than thirty times
  • Hayflick limit
  • between 40 and 60 times and then dies.
  • Hebrew calendar
  • just before midnight, Jerusalem time.
  • Ideal emissivity
  • emitting radiation all the time,
  • Idealizing chaos
  • and, outside of time, have rewound the system back to its beginning
  • Imagination of ice
  • not once but five times
  • Infographics
  • in relation to time, distance,
  • Instruments that made instruments
  • Keeping time,
  • cutting time into smaller intervals,
  • Interesting aspects
  • near the solstice, the time of year
  • having an hour be one-twelfth of the time
  • Iron
  • Obscured by time, the beginning
  • Isochronism
  • took about the same amount of time
  • Kelvin scale
  • Dalton calculated it many times
  • Knee-jerk reactions
  • anyone can channel an entity living out of time,
  • Leviathan of Parsonstown
  • extreme wealth and much time
  • and money can save time.
  • Lewis acids
  • can form ionic bonds with many other atoms at a time,
  • Life in memory
  • and I can watch only one at a time.
  • Like rockets
  • the next time.
  • Lines
  • Lines drawn over time
  • Lines of force
  • and seem to do so without requiring time in their propagation,
  • Location arithmetic
  • Napier’s grid, like other counting tables at the time,
  • The lost art
  • and lost time.
  • Loxodromes
  • Even at the time, when the alternatives
  • Maxwell’s equations
  • like an electron, a point in time
  • Memory
  • for apprehending time,
  • is to understand time.
  • Miracles
  • it would be time to count our blessings.
  • Naming species
  • Over time,
  • Newton scale
  • and correlated that time
  • Noether’s theorem
  • results from the translational symmetry of time
  • No mineral contains promethium
  • wasted their time and reputation trying
  • Non-fiction
  • only the idea—ahead of its time
  • Not enough
  • whom others in one’s time and place
  • goes out of fashion. That will be the time
  • Not exactly
  • for systems without time translation symmetry,
  • Nothing
  • For the time being,
  • Novum Organum Scientiarum
  • dwell some time upon it,
  • Obscure iron artifacts of the nineteenth century
  • What iron works of the time couldn’t make from iron
  • Observations by John Smeaton
  • at that time furnished with a dividing plate,
  • On call
  • often for money, always for time and attention.
  • On the heavens
  • no place or void or time exists,
  • The operation of time is unitary
  • Operations
  • at the time
  • Pauli exclusion principle/Exchange interaction
  • if their orbits were not sufficiently separated in space or time.
  • The perspective of time
  • of the hourglass of time
  • A place in time
  • Far back in time
  • Planetary orbits
  • sweeps over equal areas in equal times.
  • Plasma scaling
  • potential, resistance, time, and velocity—
  • Predictive astrology
  • auspicious times for planting, harvesting, sacrifice.
  • Principles
  • “At the time when any given stratum was being formed,
  • at the time when the lower stratum was being formed,
  • were at one time parallel to the horizon.”
  • Programmers
  • were not given credit at the time,
  • Radium
  • that was three million times
  • Random waves
  • Over a longer time,
  • Reliability
  • but worth the time to find and replace them
  • Rocket
  • were prepared for the first time
  • Science in his day
  • planetary and stellar catalogs of his time
  • “Scientist”
  • At this time,
  • Senescence
  • I feel the time is passing.
  • Singularity
  • A point in spacetime at which matter
  • The future time when computer intelligence
  • Sleepers
  • Sleeping, they wait their time
  • Speed of light
  • the times between eclipses of Io
  • varied by the time of year,
  • between actual and predicted eclipse times.
  • Spherical symmetry
  • at any time in any place
  • The spirit of the car
  • freedom of time, freedom of will.
  • For the will that says it’s time to move,
  • Steps
  • one step at a time.
  • Stored energy
  • Everything’s dynamic, bending in space and time,
  • Stuff that tarnishes
  • hydrogen sulfide, over time, it tarnishes,
  • Submarine
  • reported at the time to be like putting Jonah
  • Submarine principles
  • underwater, air fit to breathe for an extended time.
  • Synchronicity
  • One way to tell the time was right is by
  • Telescoping history
  • three times.
  • magnified eight times.
  • that magnified thirty times
  • Telomere
  • repeated hundreds of times
  • Testable hypotheses
  • that distorts time and space
  • That’s not it
  • spends time to acknowledge its corporate sponsors,
  • Thermionic emission
  • At the time, the electron
  • Think positive!
  • our bus would come on time.
  • Time
  • Time and logic
  • in Steno’s time; his makes it clear
  • one step at a time. Time means
  • Time crystal
  • but most do not change over time.
  • Time crystals repeat patterns
  • in both space and time.
  • time crystals couldn’t exist.
  • they can break time-translation symmetry
  • Time dilation / length contraction
  • and time dilation.
  • Time travel
  • Tractable patterns
  • in the same space and time
  • Transforms
  • that an equation expressing a function of time
  • T violation
  • If you think about time in spacial terms,
  • but time is different from space. It’s
  • except the slow way, one millisecond at a time.
  • Unacceptable explanations
  • Nothing at the time
  • Uniformitarianism
  • Things tend to take a lot of time
  • Units
  • may be so various in several times and places,
  • Universal gravitation
  • but an attribute of the curvature of space and time
  • Unstable
  • itme like
  • Vital forces
  • of only time and degree.
  • could in time agree.
  • Waste
  • the wasted time and energy
  • Wasted
  • Wasted time,
  • What is space?
  • that both light and time slow down
  • What one cannot see
  • in distant and unfamiliar times and places,
  • how distant worlds suffered the ravages of time
  • Work in progress
  • in between time,
• timelessness
  • “Sewing Vacuum”
  • from the fabric of timelessness?
• Timex
  • Fun with science
  • Luminous dials of my Timex, my Big Ben Westclox.
  • Scintillations
  • not only that it made the hands of your Timex visible in the dark,
• timing
  • Black drop effect
  • like a teardrop, made timing its entrance difficult.
  • Enquiry into Plants
  • timing and regularity of budding, structure of the cone,
  • Global Positioning System
  • (Navigation System Using Timing and Ranging)
  • The tautochrone problem
  • The improvement in timing
  • Transit of Venus
  • timing the transit of Venus
• Timor
  • Wallacea
  • Nusa Tenggara Barat, Nusa Tenggara Timur, Timor,
• Times Square
  • Neon signs
  • by Douglas Leigh, Times Square, 1933.
• Timur
  • Wallacea
  • Nusa Tenggara Barat, Nusa Tenggara Timur, Timor,
• tin
  • Allotropes
  • In group 14 carbon and tin.
  • Atomic number 27
  • with tin for cerulean blue, with phosphate for cobalt violet.
  • Atomic number 29
  • and arsenic or tin to make the metal harder.
  • The earliest copper-tin bronze, from 4500 BCE,
  • Trading of copper and tin
  • Tin ore from Cornwall
  • of an alloy of copper, lead, and tin.
  • of copper and one-third tin.
  • an alloy of copper and one-fifth tin,
  • of bell metal, too, with 23% tin.
  • Atomic number 41
  • Niobium alloys with tin or titanium
  • Atomic number 49
  • Indium tin oxide is in LCD screens.
  • Atomic number 50
  • but by itself tin is totally non-toxic.
  • Tin solder, tinsmith, cookie tins,
  • tin plating, tin cans, tin badges,
  • pewter is mostly tin, bronze a fifth tin,
  • organ pipes of tin or tin alloy,
  • terne, lead and zinc alloyed with tin, for steel plating,
  • If you put a tin farthing in my tin cup,
  • I’ll shine up my tin talisman
  • Atomic number 56
  • Steel, cast iron, alloys with aluminum, zinc, lead, and tin,
  • Atomic number 62
  • More common than tin
  • Bismuth
  • with lead, tin,
  • Electric conductivity
  • followed by copper, lead, gold, zinc, tin,
  • History of electrolysis
  • to reduce tin, zinc, and antimony from their salts.
  • Lessons of alchemy
  • Mars iron, Jupiter tin,
  • Newton scale
  • to the melting point of tin
  • with his measurements for tin
  • Peculiarities of the strata
  • producing tin, copper, lead, and other minerals
  • Réaumur scale
  • and developed a method of coating iron with tin,
  • Reflecting telescope
  • and alloy of tin and copper, to prove his theory of color
  • Thulium
  • is not a typo for Tin.
  • Tin
  • Tin was discovered
  • were mining tin to make bronze.
  • Tin mistakes
  • because their buttons were reduced to powder from tin pest,
  • but really they contain only copper and tin.
  • ate tin cans but he was really
  • and they said tin soldiers had no hearts
  • Too soon
  • “white lead,” that is, tin,
  • tin, bismuth, then silver.
  • Tungsten
  • during smelting of some tin ores
  • and so reduced the amount of tin
• tincture
  • Stuff that stings
  • of the little bottle of tincture of iodine.
• tinman
  • Metals everywhere
  • we’d all be like the tinman
• tin pest
  • Tin mistakes
  • because their buttons were reduced to powder from tin pest,
• tinsmith
  • Atomic number 50
  • Tin solder, tinsmith, cookie tins,
• tintinnabulation
  • Atomic number 50
  • and invoke the tintinnabulation of the bells—
• tip
  • Lenses
  • by melting the tip of a thin thread of glass
• tire
  • Waste
  • rowing upstream, letting tires go flat,
• tissue
  • Atomic number 53
  • Staining (for starch or cancerous tissue)
  • Gastrulation of the blastulation
  • the bones and connective tissues.
  • Protein crystallography
  • in animal muscle tissues,
• Titan
  • Titanium
  • and named the element after the Greek Titans, in 1795.
• Titanic
  • Sonar
  • After the Titanic hit the iceberg
• titanium
  • Actinium
  • and said actinium was similar to titanium,
  • Atomic number 22
  • Each Boeing 747 has 45 metric tons of titanium.
  • The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is clad with titanium.
  • Hip joint implants use titanium.
  • Titanium powder or shavings can burn or explode.
  • Burning titanium cannot be extinguished
  • Atomic number 27
  • Superalloys of cobalt with nickel, tungsten, chromium, titanium
  • Atomic number 41
  • titanium, molybdenum, and aluminum.
  • Niobium alloys with tin or titanium
  • Atomic number 56
  • Benitoite (barium titanium silicate) fluoresces blue,
  • Hafnium
  • a heavier analog of titanium and zirconium.
  • History of electrolysis
  • to isolate yttrium, beryllium, and titanium.
  • Memristor
  • Thin films of oxygen-depleted titanium dioxide
  • between titanium and platinum electrodes.
  • Places
  • William Gregor found titanium in the mineral ilmenite
  • Samarium
  • niobium, tantalum, titanium, and oxygen, named after
  • Titanium
  • a titanium-iron oxide mineral, in 1791.
  • a titanium dioxide mineral,
  • Titanium was difficult to separate,
  • impure titanium metal, in 1825.
  • Hunter was the first to purify titanium
  • melting titanium chloride with metallic sodium
• Titius
  • Hole in the sky
  • Johann Daniel Titius and Johann Elert Bode
• title
  • Difficult man
  • that their tassels and titles
  • all our splendor, title, ring, and name
  • Exploring the science
  • Beware of titles such as Science for Fun & Profit.
  • Stupidity
  • but lack the word ‘Stupidity’ in their titles.
• TNT
  • Very bad science
  • hafnium-178m2 is more dangerous than TNT.
• toast
  • Perspectives
  • like a snail with sails. As I raised a toast to the two of us,
• toaster
  • The circuit
  • no toaster, no food processor, no microwave oven,
  • E26 screw
  • so electric toasters,
• tock
  • Escapements
  • driving the crown wheel backward a little during each tick and tock.
• tocopherol
  • Vitamers
  • Vitamin E is various tocopherols and tocotrienols.
  • Vitamin discoveries
  • including tocopherols and tocotrienols.
• tocotrienol
  • Vitamers
  • Vitamin E is various tocopherols and tocotrienols.
  • Vitamin discoveries
  • including tocopherols and tocotrienols.
• today
  • Air pollution
  • Today, London’s mayor wants to alleviate the smog
  • Alchemy
  • Today we know the elements are mutable.
  • Atomic number 15
  • Today it makes
  • Atomic number 43
  • widely used today for medical diagnostics.
  • Bismuth
  • Today bismuth
  • Camera obscura
  • “Alhazen,” which today
  • Catastrophist geology
  • under the slow natural forces observable today.
  • Chemical nomenclature
  • Today, the International Union
  • Differences
  • today we use a subscript.
  • It is also common today to place a superscript
  • Einstein refrigerator
  • Absorption refrigerators today
  • The electrical researches of the Honourable Henry Cavendish
  • which today we use to compare electrical resistance,
  • Ephemeri
  • but few today remember or care to know
  • Escapements
  • for decorative and wooden clocks. For people today,
  • In a vacuum
  • It’s somewhat crude today to say
  • In our day
  • Few today, after only
  • Mastering
  • so that today his name is synonymous
  • Myth
  • as smart as we are today.
  • Number system
  • known today as Fibonacci, the son of Bonacci,
  • Pigmented
  • Because everything today has color—
  • Predictive astrology
  • were any less discerning than we are. Today,
  • Principles of geology
  • Agencies whose effects are observable today
  • Proportional numbers
  • Today logarithms are defined algebraically;
  • Scintillations
  • Today instead of radium bromide, which is dangerous,
  • Scoville scale
  • Today, food scientists measure
  • Shortcomings
  • to fit under a tongue. Moreover, today, outside
  • The story of kites
  • Today we think of kites,
  • Thermionic emission
  • Today this is called
  • Tradition
  • Most doctors today
  • Doctors today
  • Zeros
  • today we say division by zero is undefined.
• toe
  • The Canon of Medicine
  • arranged from head to toe.
  • Van der Waals forces
  • Tiny hairs on the toes of a gecko
• tofu
  • Atomic number 20
  • Terra alba coagulates tofu.
• together
  • Antiseptic surgery
  • put two and two together
  • Difference engine
  • joined together in a loop.
  • Electromagnetism
  • Small particles act together as a wave.
  • Energy
  • bumping together to make a hydrogen isotope;
  • the first smoke arising from sticks rubbed together
  • Not by accident
  • a circuit tossed together
  • Together
  • Tweedledee and Tweedledum
  • They stick together, with
  • Universal babble (with dates)
  • and groups brought together to support Esperanto
• toilet
  • Employees
  • an improved toilet system for railroad cars
• token
  • Petri net
  • and tokens
  • have sufficient tokens.
  • it consumes tokens in input states
  • and creates tokens
  • Remote control
  • who would be given only token control.
• Toki Pona
  • Philosophical hypothesis
  • (Loglan, Lojban, Laádan, Ithkuil, and Toki Pona)
• Tokyo
  • Pandemics
  • up to two hundred thousand died in Tokyo,
• tokyoite
  • Atomic number 56
  • tokyoite, garrelsite-V and -VIII, alsonite, barytocalcide,
• tolerance
  • Immune tolerance
• toluene
  • Mauve
  • (benzene, toluene, naphthalene, anthracene)
• tomato
  • Marangoni effect
  • in pots of tomato soup.
  • Naming species
  • Fisalia, Wild tomato, Winter cherry, Cutleaf groundcherry, Camapu.
  • Ode to allicin
  • garlic green beans, mushrooms, and tomatoes,
• tomb
  • Cosmetic pigment
  • From paintings on the walls of tombs
  • Iron
  • found in a tomb at Gerzeh, Egypt.
• tomography
  • Atomic number 37
  • Rubidium-82 for positron emission tomography
• Tompion
  • Escapements
  • Thomas Tompion invented the cylinder escapement in 1695,
• ton
  • Atomic number 22
  • Each Boeing 747 has 45 metric tons of titanium.
  • Caesium
  • After distilling forty tons of this water,
  • Obscure iron artifacts of the nineteenth century
  • What iron works of the time couldn’t make from iron
  • Promethium
  • A ton of uranium slugs from the reactor
• toner
  • Atomic number 34
  • photocells, solar cells, and as a toner
• tong
  • Common equipment
  • Thermometers, tongs, and test tubes, check.
• Tongan
  • Tower of Babel
  • or Tongan, they say,
• tongue
  • It didn’t just happen
  • under his tongue
  • and another coin of a different metal
  • Nitroglycerin
  • that a little nitroglycerin under the tongue
  • Shortcomings
  • to fit under a tongue. Moreover, today, outside
  • Tongue stones
  • Tongue stones
  • dragon tongues
  • serpent tongues
  • Maltese tongues
  • tongues of Saint Paul
  • Universal babble (with dates)
  • There was a multitude of constructed tongues
• tongue-stone
  • Stratigraphy
  • as fossils known as glossopetræ, “tongue-stones,”
• tool
  • Analysis
  • given the right tools
  • Atomic number 23
  • tools, and knives
  • Atomic number 26
  • The people of Greenland made tools
  • Atomic number 74
  • Tungsten carbide for cutting tools
  • Cro-Magnons
  • with stone tools and perforated shells and animal teeth,
  • Cultures
  • tools, mining, manufacture, and trade.
  • Instruments that made instruments
  • and tools that cut brass
  • Iron
  • as iron replaced bronze for tools and weapons.
  • Lenses
  • in a simple tool that held the sample to the light
  • Observations by John Smeaton
  • he showed me not only his general set of tools,
  • Other batteries
  • The nickel–cadmium battery was used in portable power tools.
  • Paranthropus boisei
  • the first in the family to use stone tools.
  • Petri net
  • invented a graphic tool
  • Pigment
  • our tools, our clothes, our bodies
  • Spectral lines
  • resulting in a practical tool
  • The story of kites
  • not as military tools or forms of divination,
  • Teachings
  • used a tool more powerful than telescopes;
  • Wonders
  • Wonders
  • Heron intended his machines as toys, tools, and temple wonders.
• tooth
  • A.K.A.
  • with teeth built for chewing,
  • Archaeopteryx
  • claws and teeth even if it cannot frighten
  • Atomic number 38
  • to make teeth less sensitive.
  • Atomic number 79
  • Nazis pulled gold teeth and fillings
  • Cro-Magnons
  • with stone tools and perforated shells and animal teeth,
  • Escapements
  • which provides separate sets of locking and impulse teeth
  • Fossils
  • with shark teeth
  • Fun with science
  • Radium toothpaste to make teeth shine white.
  • Imagination of ice
  • the smilodon, a saber-toothed cat,
  • Metallic stuff
  • It’s in your blood, teeth, and bones.
  • but as calcium hydroxylapatite in teeth and bones
  • Mysterious rays
  • have practical uses, such as cleaning teeth
  • Observations by John Smeaton
  • for cutting teeth of clock wheels, &c.
  • and cut into 360 teeth;
  • Peculiarities of the strata
  • Natali, Teredo, Crabs Teeth, and bones
  • identified by Terebratulæ Teeth, and Palates
  • identified by Pectines, teeth, bones, and wood
  • Pendulum clock
  • engage the teeth of a crown wheel
  • hitting a tooth at the top of the crown,
  • hitting a tooth at the bottom of the crown.
  • Stratigraphy
  • To explain how a shark’s tooth had the same shape
• toothache
  • Remedies
  • helps with gum disease and toothache,
• toothpaste
  • Atomic number 9
  • for toothpaste
  • Atomic number 15
  • and toothpaste
  • Atomic number 38
  • Strontium chloride in toothpaste
  • Fun with science
  • Radium toothpaste to make teeth shine white.
• toothpick
  • Obscure iron artifacts of the nineteenth century
  • used for everything from pens and toothpicks
• top
  • Besoin
  • to graze on leaves at the tops of trees
  • Cathode ray vision
  • top to bottom, to illuminate a test pattern
  • Dad said
  • Some have said colder water freezes from the top,
  • Electrophorus
  • Touch the top of the metal plate
  • Glossmeter
  • is shown through a smoked glass to the top,
  • Living systems
  • is the sun rising over the top of a tree.
  • Handedness
  • they would need to orient the top of the page to the north
  • Pendulum clock
  • hitting a tooth at the top of the crown,
  • Quark matter
  • Whether charmed or strange, like tops,
  • Rollin film
  • and over the top.
  • Tribological experiments
  • to do these experiments on table tops
  • Wedgwood scale
  • spaced a half-inch apart at the top
• topography
  • Deviations
  • Local topography deviates
• topology
  • Non-Euclidean geometry
  • accepting odd topologies in which
  • Topology
  • The beginning of topology
  • and coined the name topology.
  • The beginning of topology
  • Topological invariant
• topsoil
  • Ice age
  • Unstratified beds of rounded gravel lay under topsoil
• Torah
  • Sulfur
  • Translators of the Torah call it brimstone;
• torpedo
  • Engines of invention
  • manufacturing submarine mines and torpedoes
  • Frequency-hopping
  • that radio-controlled torpedoes could be jammed.
  • would defeat any attempt to jam a torpedo.
  • for both the transmitter and the torpedo
  • Practical uses
  • an explosive for naval mines and torpedos,
• Torquetum
  • Computing devices
  • The Torquetum
• Torricelli
  • Previous thermometers
  • In 1666, eiher Evangelista Torricelli, a student of Galileo
• torsion
  • History
  • who later weighed the world with his torsion balance,
  • proved the inverse-square law with a torsion balance
  • Sequence of results
  • Given the weight and dimensions of the torsion balance,
  • the deflection of the torsion balance
  • Torsion balance
  • Cavendish acquired the torsion balance
  • The torsion balance let Cavendish measure the force needed
  • However, even inside the container, this torsion balance
  • ‘Weighing’ the world
  • between lead spheres using a torsion balance
• tortoiseshell
  • Erinoid
  • Coral, Ivory, Tortoiseshell, Turquoise, Ebonite, &c.,
• torture
  • Arguments against torture, arguments against war
  • There never has been a confession under torture
  • An act of torture debases
  • The real reason for torture
  • The benefits that war and torture claim
• torturer
  • Arguments against torture, arguments against war
  • both the victim and the torturer.
• torus
  • Fullerene
  • doughnut-like tori of various sizes,
• Tosorthros
  • Step pyramid
  • also known as Tosorthros, Sesorthos, and Djoser,
• toss
  • Coin toss
• total
  • Conservation of energy
  • total energy
  • Derivative and integral
  • whose sum approximates the total area under the curve
  • On the heavens
  • whose total mass is finite,
• totalitarian
  • Speech speach
  • and totalitarian rule is difficult to draw,
• touch
  • Chimpanzees and humans
  • They express themselves with touches, gestures, and calls.
• tourist
  • Little g
  • Gravitational anomalies beacon the tourist
• tourmaline
  • Pyroelectricity
  • Theophrastus found that tourmaline
• tower
  • A metal
  • a tower of steel,
  • Other bridges
  • Tower Bridge, not the real London Bridge.
  • Precedents
  • but in towers built by others
  • Static
  • from the stations’ broadcast towers.
• town
  • Difficult man
  • until they drove him out of town.
  • Earth miners
  • to escape from cities and towns
  • Ethnography
  • histories of the towns they would visit,
  • International auxiliary language
  • in his home town, Białystok, Poland, and strove
  • Lithia waters
  • and available free from a fountain at the center of town,
  • Origin of species
  • He shuffles around town with his head down
  • Parachutes for war
  • and descend on towns with guns and grenades.
  • Plants and animals
  • or towns, counties, parks, forests, and streets,
  • Problems
  • that must visit all towns in Sweden
  • Too soon
  • near the town of Schneeberg
  • Unnatural stuff
  • Our town didn’t fluoridate,
• Towneley
  • Escapements
  • In 1675, Richard Towneley invented the deadbeat escapement,
  • Measuring comets
  • Richard Towneley improved
• Townsend
  • Did he
  • and Townsend discovered electron avalanches.
• toxic
  • Atomic number 4
  • Beryllium is highly toxic.
  • Atomic number 33
  • steel gray, brittle, and toxic,
  • Atomic number 50
  • are the useful and toxic chemicals.
  • Atomic number 80
  • In spite of its toxic effects, it is still used
  • It accumulates and is extremely toxic, impairing
  • Cosmetic pigment
  • the mercury in cinnabar was toxic?
  • Doable stuff
  • Samarium is only slightly toxic,
  • Fluorine
  • It was so toxic
  • Pale green
  • Extremely toxic to all living things,
  • Some toxins
  • Alcohol’s a toxic drug
  • For some toxic chemicals
  • Cobalt pigment is highly toxic,
  • Tin
  • but turned out to be toxic,
  • Unnatural stuff
  • lead, mercury—is toxic,
  • Fluorine is corrosive, volatile, and toxic,
• toxicity
  • Atomic number 50
  • are banned for toxicity to marine life,
• toxicology
  • Toxicology
• toxin
  • Antitoxins
  • Bacillus anthracis
  • they grow, produce toxins, and release more spores.
  • Pale green
  • reacting with urine to produce volatile toxins
  • Some toxins
• toy
  • Celluloid
  • Billiard balls, buttons, toys, dolls, pens, and accordions.
  • Going
  • of a four-wheeled toy that I wind up,
  • Napier’s bones
  • They are like toys
  • Wonders
  • Heron intended his machines as toys, tools, and temple wonders.
• trace
  • Analytical spectroscopy
  • trace chemicals in a sample.
  • Atomic number 42
  • Molybdenum is an essential trace element,
  • Atomic number 82
  • and traces of copper, silver, zinc, cadmium,
  • The new
  • traces of Neanderthal genes, but this ignores the base commonality.
  • Noah’s flood
  • or dying to have its traces misinterpreted,
  • Remnants and traces
  • into remnants and traces.
  • a trace might remain.
  • Technetium
  • was difficult to find because only traces exist naturally on Earth.
• track
  • The cosmic ray connection
  • Pions were discovered as tracks in photographic plates
  • Humboldt County
  • and scramble down the bank and over the railroad tracks
  • tumbled into the river to protect the tracks.
• tracking
  • Uses
  • Target tracking
• tract
  • Peculiarities of the strata
  • Strata of the Coal Tract
• traction
  • Employees
  • he became known as the father of electric traction;
• tractor
  • Placebo effect
  • his metallic “tractors” for the extraction
  • of Perkins tractors with similar wooden rods
• trade
  • Atomic number 29
  • was traded as far as Phoenicia.
  • Cultures
  • tools, mining, manufacture, and trade.
  • Fumifugium
  • and move noxious trades
  • Kelvin wave
  • When the trade winds stop blowing east to west
  • Means
  • discovered the trade winds.
  • Mercury
  • and trade
  • Metric system
  • of conducting trade between countries
  • Trade winds
  • explanation for trade winds,
  • cause the easterly trade winds.
  • of the general trade winds,”
• trading
  • Atomic number 29
  • Trading of copper and tin
• tradition
  • Cosmetics with pigments
  • can express tradition, individuality, artistic freedom
  • Tradition
• tragedy
  • Poetics
  • and the purpose of tragedy
• trail
  • Pet dinosaurs
  • leaving an imaginary trail
  • Pheromone
  • claiming ownership, marking a trail or area,
• trailer
  • Einstein refrigerator
  • are used in RVs and travel trailers.
• train
  • Beauty and motion
  • lovers of rollercoasters, skateboards, bicycles, and trains
  • Doppler effect
  • on a train passing by him
  • was proportional to the velocity of the train.
  • If the train were faster, he said, they would have sounded
  • Escapements
  • by variations in the forces on the gear train.
  • and detaching the movement of the pendulum or spring wheel from the gear train,
  • allow the gear train of a clock to escape
  • Hazards
  • Shipping nitroglycerin to blast a train tunnel
  • Virchow
  • led the first hospital train
• training
  • Training
  • but it needs training from early childhood,
  • Vernier acuity
  • This hyperacuity gets better with training
  • Virchow
  • worked diligently to improve the training of physicians,
• trait
  • Autism
  • affect people who may not have autism but have autistic-like traits
  • Sociobiology
  • as have physical traits,
• trajectory
  • Coriolis effect
  • the direction of spin from the ball’s inertial trajectory.
• trance
  • Periodic table
  • Putting himself into a trance,
• transcendental
  • Transcendental constant
  • For something characterized as transcendental,
• transcriptase
  • Retroviral replication
  • reverse transcriptase
  • Reverse transcriptase
• transcription
  • Deciphering hieroglyphics
  • Young did a decent phonetic transcription of the names,
• transducer
  • Transducer
• transfer
  • Horizontal gene transfers
  • More like you and me
  • Or maybe horizontal gene transfers
• transferase
  • Terminal transferase
• transform
  • Transforms
• transformer
  • Electromagnetism
  • created the first electric transformer
  • Faraday’s law of induction
  • of transformers, inductors, motors, and generators.
  • Penetrations
  • transformers, power lines,
• transformation
  • Transformation
  • Lorentz transformations
  • Plasma scaling
  • leads to transformations
  • Transformations
• transgression
  • Speech speach
  • however gross our transgressions,
• transience
  • Phonon interaction
  • virtual in its transience,
• transistor
  • Memristor
  • Devices using memristors could replace transistors
  • Solid-state effects
  • The transistor was invented
  • followed by the transistor radio when I was two.
  • Transistor
• transit
  • Conjunctions
  • Transits of the sun are separated
  • Global Positioning System
  • began in 1959 with the Transit satellite navigation system,
  • Humboldt’s voyage
  • observed the transit of Mercury,
  • Transit of Venus
  • timing the transit of Venus
  • Horrocks measured the transit of Venus in 1639
• transition
  • Atomic number 55
  • Caesium atom transitions in atomic clocks.
  • Changes of state
  • the phase transitions between stable states
  • Memristor
  • Transition metal dichalcogenide monolayers
  • Not a metal
  • semiconducting quick transitions
  • Petri net
  • represent transitions,
  • Transitions may “fire”
  • When a transition fires,
  • Reynolds number
  • the scaling effects and the transition
• translation
  • Algebra
  • so that Latin translations of it in the 12th century
  • Camera obscura
  • Translation into Latin gave us our spelling
  • Celestial stems and terrestrial branches
  • (having no translations in English)
  • Not exactly
  • for systems without time translation symmetry,
  • Time crystal
  • they can break time-translation symmetry
• translator
  • Sulfur
  • Translators of the Torah call it brimstone;
• translucence
  • Handedness
  • saturation, texture, pattern, translucence, wetness, and shape.
• transmission
  • Analogs
  • is like the transmission of a spiritual truth
  • Atomic number 68
  • for fiber optics and long-distance transmission.
  • Heaviside condition
  • In a transmission line, when
  • then a transmission will not be distorted.
  • Loading coil
  • Transmissions over transatlantic telegraph cables
  • Oliver Heaviside determined that transmission
  • to improve the clarity of transmissions.
  • Other electrical telegraphs
  • eventually obtaining a transmission rate
  • Prior art, post art
  • and bluetooth wireless transmissions.
  • invented spread spectrum transmission,
  • Rectenna
  • for wireless power transmission.
  • Resonance
  • Nikola Tesla’s wireless power transmission
  • Early attempts to invent radio transmission
• transmitter
  • Another theory
  • If so, the alien transmitters
  • Frequency-hopping
  • for both the transmitter and the torpedo
  • Leyden jar
  • Marconi used one in his spark-gap transmitter.
• transmutation
  • Too soon
  • the transmutation of elements,
  • Transmutation
  • Transmutation of elements
• transparency
  • Stupidity
  • The transparency of stupidity
• transparent
  • Optical lessons
  • Some are opaque; others are transparent
  • or partly transparent to all or only some colors.
  • Slide rule
  • by a sliding transparent hairline cursor.
• transpiration
  • Thermal transpiration
• transport
  • Atomic number 15
  • and in the transport
  • Ekman transport
  • Reynolds things
  • about the Reynolds transport theorem,
• transportation
  • Uses
  • Transportation
• trap
  • Fullerene
  • that trap ions or small molecules such as H₂O,
  • Niskin improvements
  • The Niskin bottle doesn’t need to be rotated to trap a water sample,
• trash
  • Marital telegraph
  • First Spouse. [Points to the trash bin;
  • Parallax
  • of doorways and trash cans
• traskite
  • Atomic number 56
  • traskite, krasnovite, kuannersuite-(Ce), fencooperite,
• travel
  • Double vision
  • to the direction of travel
  • Einstein refrigerator
  • are used in RVs and travel trailers.
  • The great adventure
  • during Eleven Years of Travel
  • Infographics
  • temperature, and direction of travel.
  • Reaction-diffusion systems
  • How action potentials travel through nerves
• traveler
  • International auxiliary language
  • to be used by travelers on railways and steamships.
• Travers
  • Neon
  • in Ramsay’s and Travers’
• tray
  • Computing devices
  • a bi-quinary coded-decimal place-value tray
• tread
  • Don’t tread on me
  • The spirit of the car
  • and for treads that never tire,
• treatise
  • Acoustics
  • Vitruvius wrote a treatise
  • As for why
  • secret writing in a treatise on communicating with angels, well, he felt
  • Infinite and infinitesimal
  • John Wallis’s treatise on conic sections
  • Mohs scale
  • in his treatise On Stones around 300 BCE,
  • Steganography
  • a hundred forms of secret writing into a three-volume treatise
  • Stuff that rusts
  • of a long treatise on stuff that rusts.
• treatment
  • Pale green
  • except as a shock treatment at forty,
  • Sayings
  • “Extreme diseases require extreme treatments.”
  • Stupidity
  • or the side effects of medical treatments,
  • Treatment and prevention
  • Unnatural stuff
  • give our kid fluoride treatments.
• trebuchet
  • Devices
  • launched by trebuchet.
• tree
  • Beauty and motion
  • A line of trees along a country road
  • Besoin
  • to graze on leaves at the tops of trees
  • Bombykol
  • protect mulberry trees from wild silkmoths.
  • Chimpanzees and humans
  • they call loudly, drum on tree trunks, and shake branches.
  • Crossing waters
  • Not so the koala, who hugs its gum tree,
  • Enquiry into Plants
  • Another difficulty is in distinguishing trees from shrubs,
  • when under cultivation a shrub can grow into a tree.
  • If a tree does not bear fruit, split a root
  • If a fig tree does not bear figs, prune the roots,
  • If an almond tree does not bear, drive an iron peg in its trunk,
  • but cure the fig tree by nailing crabs to its trunk.
  • Wild trees propagate from root, down, seed, or fruit.
  • the same tree or a different tree,
  • Different forms of the same tree, and different trees of the same form,
  • whether wild and cultivated trees, male and female,
  • shape and height of the tree, its straightness and branching.
  • Some trees love wet and marshy ground, some dry.
  • Some trees grow on land and some in the ocean.
  • All mountains have peculiar trees and shrubs.
  • Worms, sun-scorching, and rot afflict trees generally.
  • and removing bark all around the trunk can damage trees.
  • The trees, gall oak, Turkey-oak, scrub oak, Valonia oak,
  • olive, Egyptian plum or sebesten, date-plum, nettle-tree,
  • plane-tree, arbutus, andrachne, wig-tree, almond,
  • Genesis
  • The pattern of a tree is in its seed.
  • Liquefaction of water
  • yards, roofs, trees waving in a gentle breeze,
  • Living systems
  • is the sun rising over the top of a tree.
  • Null balancing
  • of Will Holt’s “Lemon Tree”
  • getting “Lemon Tree” stuck in there.
  • and some less, but “Lemon Tree”
  • Paper
  • from hemp, rags, and the inner bark of mulberry trees
  • Parallax
  • where, outside, green hills show through the trees.
  • Philosophical language
  • to ascend his taxonomic tree.
  • Precedents
  • we no longer live in trees
  • Probability theory
  • Fermat drew a tree of all possible outcomes,
  • Remedies
  • Gum Elemi Tree resin
  • Success with kites
  • with the kite-eating tree.
• trembler-coil
  • Automobile
  • with trembler-coil ignition
• trembling
  • Remedies
  • is good for the trembling that comes from fear
• trial
  • Catching
  • depends only on trial and error.
  • Postulates
  • by trial and error
• Trialetian
  • Cultures
  • Iberomaurusian, Kebaran, Magdalenian, Trialetian,
• triangle
  • Dante’s theorem
  • nor whether a triangle
  • Koch snowflake
  • of an equilateral triangle
  • Proof of the Pythagorean theorem
  • For any right triangle,
  • rearranging in a square four copies of the triangle.
  • Thales’ theorem
  • then the triangle ABC is a right triangle.
  • Consider the two isosceles triangles OAB and OBC.
  • The base angles of an isosceles triangle are equal,
  • and the three angles of a triangle add up to 180 degrees.
  • Thales’ theorem
  • construct a right triangle.
• triangulation
  • Originals
  • Gemma Frisius invented triangulation in 1533.
  • for measuring by triangulation from city to city in 1617,
• tribalism
  • Pressure of liberty
  • our nationalism and tribalism
• tribe
  • 99% human
  • in others—other lives, other tribes,
  • Atomic number 12
  • which derived from the tribe, Magnetes,
  • Being a Native American poet
  • of a federally recognized tribe;
  • The disappearance
  • other tribes, races, and species.
  • Handedness
  • A tribe in the South American rainforest
  • Hominini
  • and as members we should welcome all our tribe.
  • Leshem, Liguria
  • The tribe of Dan, the eagle
  • Neanderthal man
  • had driven out less civilized tribes from the region,
  • Novum Organum Scientiarum
  • the idols of tribe,
  • Symbols
  • languages, tribes,
• tribological
  • Tribological experiments
• tribology
  • Tribology
• tributyltin
  • Atomic number 50
  • organotin hydrides such as tributyltin hydride,
  • Tributyltin oxide used as a wood preservative
• trick
  • Endergonic vs. exergonic
  • The trick is to focus
  • From a distance
  • from a trick of the light.
  • Homunculi
  • little tricks to bedevil
  • Interferometry
  • widely applied this trick
• trickster
  • Cipher
  • And tricksters might have thought
• tricycle
  • Automobile
  • was a single-cylinder tricycle
• triflate
  • Atomic number 62
  • Samarium(III) triflate
  • Lewis acids
  • and scandium triflate is a Lewis acid catalyst.
• trifluoride
  • Atomic number 9
  • and aluminium trifluoride
• trigger
  • Devices
  • and fancy trigger mechanisms.
• trigonia
  • Peculiarities of the strata
  • identified by Turritella, Ammonites, Trigoniæ, Pecten, and Wood
• trigonometry
  • Astronomy
  • In the process, Hipparchus invented trigonometry
  • Logarithm
  • Trigonometry, but also in all
  • Thales’ theorem
  • Ancient trigonometry
• trillion
  • Units of life
  • humans have trillions.
• trilobite
  • Peculiarities of the strata
  • identified by Madreporæ, Encrini in masses, and Producti Trilobites
• trim
  • Atomic number 24
  • Electroplated onto bumpers and trim,
• trimer
  • Monomers, dimers, and hexamers
  • Not trimers, tetramers, pentamers,
  • Actually, it forms trimers, tetramers, and pentamers,
• Trinity
  • James Clerk Maxwell
  • studied at Edinburg, Cambridge, and Trinity,
• triode
  • Triode
• trion
  • Quasiparticles
  • Trion, 2000
  • A negative trion is two electrons bound to a hole;
  • a positive trion is two holes bound to an electron.
  • All trions are fermionic.
• trip
  • Devices
  • triggered by a trip wire.
  • Humboldt’s voyage
  • On a trip that started in 1799 and lasted five years
  • Ice age
  • Agassiz made several trips to the alps
• triple
  • Diophantine equation
  • are Pythagorean triples, (3,4,5), (5,12,13), and so forth.
  • How to calibrate
  • such as the triple point of water.
  • Irrational triples
  • Other definitions of absolute zero
  • 273.16 below the triple point of water
  • Zero
  • for calculating Pythagorean triples,
• tripod
  • Wonders
  • walking tripods, and the bronze man, Talos, who guarded the island of Crete.
• tritium
  • Stuff that glows
  • excited by tritium
• τρίτον
  • Symbols
  • short for τρίτον meaning “third”—
• trituration
  • Ice age
  • as though they were produced by the trituration
• trochus
  • Peculiarities of the strata
  • identified by Trochus, Nautilus, Ammonites in masses,
  • identified by Madreporæ, Trochi, Nautilus, Ammonites, and Pecten
• troglobite
  • Speleology
  • have their own animal species called troglobites
• troglodyte
  • Hominini
  • Why isn’t Pan troglodytes
• trolley
  • As for why he does the things he does
  • bonkers, bananas, fruity, batty, buggy, and off his trolley,
• tron
  • Quark matter
  • Three quarks for tiny trons!
• troop
  • Mysorean rockets
  • when they descended into opposing troops.
  • Rocket
  • Zheng Fan ordered his troops
  • Traditional medicine
  • about their traditional remedies, and tried them out on the troops,
  • Uses
  • coordinating movement of troops and supplies
• Troost
  • Niobium
  • Louis Joseph Troost,
• tropopause
  • Stratosphere
  • marking the tropopause, where the stratosphere begins.
  • Stratospheric facts
  • Commercial aircraft fly above the tropopause
• troposphere
  • Living in the sky
  • air of the troposphere.
  • Stratospheric facts
  • freeze-dry air rising from the troposphere.
• trouble
  • Betting
  • You’ll be in trouble only if everyone does it.
  • Fántasmascope
  • for ghost is fántasma. The only trouble is
  • Hominini
  • Why do we have trouble accepting others
  • Homunculi
  • These all cause trouble
  • Microscope and telescope
  • a street seller often in trouble
  • Mirror images
  • hey, we’re in trouble, mister.
  • Practical problems
  • The main trouble was the darned metal got soft.
  • Success with kites
  • Charlie Brown has trouble
• trough
  • The base of a wave
  • between the crest and the trough of the waves.
  • Platinum pyrometer
  • He placed a bar of platinum in a small ceramic trough
  • Stokes drift
  • in a sinusoidal path from trough to crest
  • and crest to trough in the direction of the wind.
• Troy
  • Places
  • at Troy, New York, the home
• trumpet
  • Doppler effect
  • and the flatness of the sound of trumpets
• trumpeter
  • Doppler effect
  • listening to a truck of trumpeters
  • Approaching, the trumpeters sounded sharp;
• truck
  • Doppler effect
  • listening to a truck of trumpeters
• true
  • Arguments against torture, arguments against war
  • This is true of our own arrogance,
  • Atomic number 10
  • True neon lights
  • Boolean algebra
  • true and false,
  • Defensive mimicry
  • does it matter if it’s true?
  • Discovery and proof
  • is true of the tedious and pedantic.
  • Duality
  • True and false
  • Glitches
  • A love even as true as that
  • Hypothesis
  • Would that the same be true
  • Nobility
  • True nobility is not being aloof
  • Non-Euclidean house
  • If all plumbs were true
  • Other muoniums
  • with true muonium,
  • Periodic table
  • If that’s not true, at least it alliterates.
  • Some toxins
  • maybe it’s true—there’s
  • State secrets
  • true democracy were possible.
  • Stuff that tarnishes
  • True, but I happen to notice
  • Tautology
  • The meanings of true and false
  • that are either true or false.
  • over the values true and false
  • specifically, the value we hold as true
  • Thales’ ideal
  • But true love is true,
  • Weaving
  • but was the true precursor
• truffle
  • Enquiry into Plants
  • Another is whether bulbs, corms, and truffles should be called roots,
• trunculus
  • Spiritual blue
  • from secretions of the snail Hexaplex trunculus.
• trunk
  • Chimpanzees and humans
  • they call loudly, drum on tree trunks, and shake branches.
  • Enquiry into Plants
  • gash the stems, and sprinkle ashes about the trunk.
  • If an almond tree does not bear, drive an iron peg in its trunk,
  • but cure the fig tree by nailing crabs to its trunk.
  • whether if the trunk is cut off or burnt down
  • and removing bark all around the trunk can damage trees.
• truth
  • Analogs
  • is like the transmission of a spiritual truth
  • Counter intuitive
  • showing truths we cannot otherwise foresee.
  • Cymatics
  • They think facts and truth don’t matter
  • Devolution
  • The record gradually revealed the truth
  • Fact and ritual
  • uneasy with the hint of damning truth,
  • Novum Organum Scientiarum
  • if we have any love for natural truths;
  • Speech speach
  • than the plain truth,
  • Tautology
  • A statement having a truth value
• trying
  • Electrum
  • into thinking they were trying to make real gold,
• tsunami
  • Perturbations
  • A president is murdered; a war is lost; millions die of famine, hurricane, tsunami.
• tub
  • Atomic number 35
  • and in disinfectants for hot tubs.
• tube
  • Atmospheric pressure
  • Torricelli showed that if you take a glass tube closed on one end,
  • not all of the mercury leaves the tube,
  • balanced the weight of the liquid in the tube.
  • Atomic number 38
  • in the glass of cathode-ray tubes
  • Atomic number 55
  • to neutralize the space charge in vacuum tubes,
  • Atomic number 56
  • Barium in a vaccum tube ties up trace gases.
  • Atomic number 57
  • vacuum-tube emitters
  • Atomic number 64
  • Green gadolinium phosphors were used for color television tubes.
  • Atomic number 65
  • in TV tubes, LCD screens, and “trichromatic” lighting.
  • Cathode ray
  • The cathode of a vacuum tube under high voltage
  • under different pressures in the tube.
  • and the illuminating side of the tube.
  • Common equipment
  • Thermometers, tongs, and test tubes, check.
  • Crookes paddlewheel
  • in one of his Crookes tubes
  • Crookes tube
  • A Crookes tube was a Geissler tube
  • a Crookes tube demonstrated cathode rays.
  • Devices
  • Flamethrower tubes
  • Electric conductivity
  • or by its agitation in the case of liquid mercury in a glass tube,
  • Electrical telegraph
  • using pith balls or bubbles produced in tubes of acid.
  • Electromagnetics
  • Playing with a Crookes tube,
  • from cathode to anode of a Crookes tube,
  • Employees
  • on Edison’s X-ray focus tube, developing a better fluoroscope,
  • ENIAC
  • ENIAC had 17,468 vacuum tubes,
  • Erinoid
  • tubes, it is unrivalled as a substitute for Amber, Buffalo Horn,
  • Fathul Mujahidin
  • could deploy a frame of tubes
  • Fleming valve
  • Fullerene
  • spheres, tubes, and tubes with spherical ends,
  • Gas discharges
  • Geissler and Crookes tubes,
  • Geissler tube
  • low-pressure glass tubes
  • Huygens’ engine
  • Leather tubes let gases escape during the explosion
  • Hygrometer designs
  • Forcing mercury in an absorbent bag to move a liquid barrier in a tube.
  • Increasing vacuum
  • In 1858 Faraday pumped air from a glass tube,
  • The Geissler tube is the same as the Faraday tube
  • so his tubes generated less heat and more light.
  • Lines of force
  • repelling a piece of bismuth in a vacuum tube,
  • Liquefaction of gases
  • by drawing gases into bent glass tubes,
  • or by sealing liquids in bent glass tubes
  • as tubes of gases under pressure spontaneously exploded.
  • Maxwell’s equations
  • are like small tubes that carry a magnetic flux
  • using the properties of fields. Fields, rafts, tubes,
  • Pigment
  • by blowing colors out of tubes.
  • Plasma
  • ionizes a gas in a vacuum tube to change
  • Plasma lamp
  • He subjected an evacuated glass tube
  • Plasma oscillation
  • in vacuum tubes, in the ionosphere,
  • Previous thermometers
  • a glass bulb attached to a vase of water by a narrow tube.
  • Contraction of air in the bulb pulled water up the tube.
  • Prior art
  • Warren De la Rue enclosed a platinum coil in a vacuum tube
  • Réaumur scale
  • and it takes eight percent of the alcohol in the bulb and tube up to zero
  • Reliability
  • Even when operating vacuum tubes
  • tube failures were regular occurrences
  • for the tubes provided much faster operation
  • Van Allen belts
  • an omnidirectional Geiger-Müller tube
  • Various tubes
  • The Geissler tube
  • of electronic vacuum tubes,
  • cathode-ray and X-ray tubes,
  • Vitalism
  • assembled the stuff of protoplasm in a test tube,
  • Zirconium
  • with potassium metal in an iron tube
• tuberculosis
  • Latent stuff
  • of tuberculosis
  • Mycobacterium tuberculosis
  • Prior art
  • but the next year he died of tuberculosis.
  • Tuberculosis vaccine
• tubule
  • Factory prototype
  • Membranes, pores, tubules, and vesicles,
• tumor
  • Anesthesia
  • Crawford Long excised two small tumors from the neck
  • Atomic number 37
  • locates brain tumors.
  • Fun with science
  • Radium capsules sewn into tumors during surgery.
  • Reaction-diffusion systems
  • How tumors spread and wounds heal
• Tums
  • Atomic number 20
  • Calcium in Tums and mineral supplements.
• tun
  • Maya calendar
  • 13 b'ak'tuns, 0 k'atun, 0 tun,
  • A tun is 20 winals.
  • A k'atun is 20 tun.
• tungstate
  • Tungsten
  • produced a new acid from calcium tungstate,
• tungsten
  • Atomic number 27
  • Superalloys of cobalt with nickel, tungsten, chromium, titanium
  • Atomic number 57
  • and electrodes for gas tungsten arc welding.
  • Atomic number 74
  • Tungsten carbide for cutting tools
  • tungsten for jewellery
  • tungsten for high-speed steel
  • tungsten for heat-resisting steel
  • tungsten for plastic-mould steel,
  • tungsten for piercing bullets and shrapnel,
  • tungsten disulphide for high-temperature lubricants,
  • tungsten for incandescent bulb filaments
  • tungsten for microwave oven magnetrons,
  • tungsten for the balls of ball-point pens,
  • tungsten oxides for ceramic glazes,
  • and tungsten for industrial catalysts.
  • Atomic number 75
  • Tungsten-rhenium alloys
  • Differences
  • Tungsten was discovered in two minerals,
  • tungsten and wolframite, and it has two names,
  • tungsten and wolfram, with the symbol W.
  • Hard stuff
  • tungsten is used by some bacteria and archaea.
  • Metalic tungsten is safe but the powder is explosive
  • and some tungsten compounds are harmful to animal life.
  • Light and strong
  • Almost half the weight of tungsten, molybdenum
  • replaced tungsten in some steels in World War I.
  • Memristor
  • with tungsten electrodes.
  • Prior art
  • created the tungsten filament bulb in 1904.
  • which lengthened the lifetime of a tungsten bulb.
  • Tungsten
  • which was called tungsten
  • which he named tungsten,
  • Yttrium
  • thought it might contain tungsten
• tunnel
  • Dynamite
  • quarries, railroad cuttings, tunnels,
  • Hazards
  • Shipping nitroglycerin to blast a train tunnel
  • Wind tunnel
  • the first wind tunnel.
• turbine
  • Atomic number 27
  • make turbine blades and knee replacements.
  • Atomic number 44
  • jet-engine turbine blades,
  • Atomic number 65
  • make strong magnets for electric motors and wind turbines.
  • Atomic number 74
  • and for turbine blades,
  • Boundary layers
  • The blades of the Tesla turbines and pumps.
  • Steam engine
  • was a simple steam turbine that did no work,
  • Giovanni Branca a steam turbine in 1629;
  • Tesla turbine
  • Windmill
  • a programmable cart, and the first steam turbine,
• turbo
  • Peculiarities of the strata
  • identified by Murices, Turbo, Pectunculus, Caria, Venus, and Ostreæ
• turbulence
  • Balance of forces
  • in turbulence.
  • Black drop effect
  • Turbulence of Earth’s atmosphere.
  • Crookes paddlewheel
  • as turbulence caused by differential heating.
  • Ekman spiral
  • where turbulence is calmed,
  • Origin of our solar system
  • due to turbulence and centrifugal forces,
• turd
  • Speech speach
  • drop turds, or complain plaintively.
• Turing
  • Cellular automaton
  • to robots that could simulate a Turing machine.
  • ENIAC
  • was the first digital programmable Turing-complete
  • Prior art, post art
  • with assistance from Alan Turing,
• turkey
  • Electric pleasures
  • “A turkey is to be killed for our dinner
  • Vaccination
  • that had been practiced in Turkey,
• Turkey-oak
  • Enquiry into Plants
  • The trees, gall oak, Turkey-oak, scrub oak, Valonia oak,
• turn
  • Atomic number 12
  • which in turn derived
  • Atomic number 16
  • with eight sulfurs per turn.
  • Coastal upwelling
  • Where one turns along a shore
  • Ekman spiral
  • in turn deflects the layer under it,
  • Escapements
  • and provides an impulse to the balance wheel only during its counterclockwise turn.
• Turner
  • Other hardness scales
  • Thomas Turner
• turning
  • Ideomotor phenomenon
  • not paranormal phenomena, caused table-turning.
  • of magic pendulums, divining rods, and table-turning.
• turquoise
  • Erinoid
  • Coral, Ivory, Tortoiseshell, Turquoise, Ebonite, &c.,
• turret
  • Escapements
  • including turret clocks across Europe, since the fourteenth century.
  • used for turret clocks.
  • was used in turret clocks because its rate is unaffected
• turritella
  • Peculiarities of the strata
  • identified by Turritella, Ammonites, Trigoniæ, Pecten, and Wood
• turtle
  • Like us
  • Maybe reptiles? Turtles are cute,
  • Turtles
• Tutankhamun
  • Atomic number 79
  • including Tutankhamun
• tutu
  • Cross-disciplinary work
  • (quarterbacks in tutus, peanuts with wings)
• TV
  • see television
  • Atomic number 65
  • in TV tubes, LCD screens, and “trichromatic” lighting.
  • The circuit
  • or watch TV, or refrigerate food without blocks of ice.
  • Good advice
  • quacks, and TV evangelists—
  • Plasmas
  • Large TV diplays contain many small plasma cells.
• Twain
  • Baconian theories
  • They say that Mark Twain believed it,
• Twaron
  • Aramids
  • such as Nomex, TeTinconex, Twaron, X-Fiper, and Kermel,
• Tweedledee
  • Tweedledee and Tweedledum
  • Tweedledum and Tweedledee
• Tweedledum
  • Tweedledee and Tweedledum
  • Tweedledum and Tweedledee
• twelfth
  • Interesting aspects
  • having an hour be one-twelfth of the time
  • Zinc
  • by the twelfth century and described
• twelve
  • Antikythera mechanism
  • Corinthian names for twelve lunar months
  • through the twelve houses of the zodiac
  • Avogadro constant
  • The number of particles in twelve grams of carbon-12
  • Celestial stems and terrestrial branches
  • and twelve terrestrial branches
  • Imhotep, the myth
  • Twelve hundred years after Imhotep died,
  • Inaccuracies
  • To correct for the fact that twelve lunar months
  • Lewis acids
  • is in coordination numbers between six and twelve,
  • Oruktor Amphibolos
  • thirty feet long, twelve feet wide,
  • Parachute
  • because his twelve-yard pyramidal design
• twenty
  • Antikythera mechanism
  • twenty-seven eclipses of the sun,
  • Conversion
  • in your size twenty three point eight centimeter shoes
  • add up to kilometers, and my size twenty seven point nine centimeter feet
  • Geometry
  • for twenty-three centuries.
  • Maya calendar
  • The second named twenty k'ins:
  • Pandemics
  • twenty thousand died in Paris
  • twenty-three thousand died in England.
  • twenty thousand died in Holland;
  • Philosophical language
  • showing twenty-nine consonants in a table arranged
  • Speleothems
  • Fifteen to twenty million years ago,
  • Xenon
  • One part in twenty million
• twice
  • The handles
  • look twice before crossing the street,
• twig
  • Chimpanzees and humans
  • Chimpanzees will find a twig, remove its leaves,
• twin
  • Neodymium
  • the twin of lanthanum—
  • the green twin, praseodymium,
  • and the new twin, neodymium,
  • Praseodymium
  • praseodymium, the green twin,
  • and neodymium, the new twin,
  • the twin of lanthanum.
• two
  • Anesthesia
  • Crawford Long excised two small tumors from the neck
  • Antiseptic surgery
  • put two and two together
  • Atomic number 2
  • that was almost two percent helium,
  • Benzene ring
  • The carbons grasp two hands on one side only.
  • Bolometer
  • Two sets of platinum strips
  • form two legs of a Wheatstone bridge
  • Boolean algebra
  • Given only two values,
  • Caesium
  • presented two bright lines for caesium
  • Camera obscura
  • Alhazen wrote over two hundred books in Arabic,
  • Cell theory
  • pointed out that cells with two nuclei
  • Cheese scale
  • “How can you govern a country that has two hundred and forty-six varieties of cheese?” —Charles de Gaulle
  • Cipher
  • by turning two disks containing alphabets
  • Computing devices
  • five below the beam and two above
  • had two adjustable disks
  • put together two circular logarithmic rules in 1622
  • Conway’s Game of Life
  • With two or three neighbors, it lives.
  • With fewer than two or more than three, it dies.
  • Differences
  • Tungsten was discovered in two minerals,
  • tungsten and wolframite, and it has two names,
  • Diophantine equation
  • as the sum of the same number of cubes in two different ways.
  • Disappearing-filament pyrometer
  • that two objects
  • Double vision
  • two components
  • two orthogonal
  • Earth’s shape
  • that gravity between two objects varies
  • Electric conductivity
  • consisting of two thousand double plates of zinc and copper
  • Electromagnetism
  • —found that two electric wires magnetically attract
  • Erbium
  • Mosander found two impurities,
  • Escapements
  • This escapement requires no lubrication and has two pivoting levers
  • Famous prisms
  • Isaac Newton used two triangular glass prisms
  • Fermat’s principle
  • Or if two rays of light diverge from a distant object
  • so that the two rays arrive at the same time.
  • Fibonacci sequence
  • One and one is two; one and two is three;
  • two and three is five and so forth;
  • add the last two numbers to get the next
  • Plus, the ratio of any two successive Fibonacci numbers
  • Findings
  • André-Marie Ampère found that two parallel wires carrying electric currents
  • The four causes
  • allowing two sisters and two brothers,
  • Flettner rotor
  • two rotating cylinders propelled it
  • Gallium
  • in a sample of sphalerite by its two violet spectral lines
  • Glossmeter
  • until the line between the two parts disappears.
  • Human anatomy
  • A human’s lower jaw is one bone, not two as Galen said,
  • Humorism
  • each of which is associated with an organ or two—
  • Ice age
  • Agassiz published Etudes sur les glaciers in two volumes
  • Imhotep, the myth
  • and for the two thousand years,
  • Inaccuracies
  • every two or three years the year gets an extra lunar month
  • Infinite sea of spacetime
  • we thought it was a force acting between two bodies.
  • International auxiliary language
  • there were two, each
  • Is it not relative?
  • The Celsius scale is relative to two points,
  • Each one-hundredth of the interval between these two points
  • The Kelvin scale is also relative to two points,
  • Lewis acids
  • results in the combination of the two,
  • LIGO
  • two black holes or neutron stars
  • Lutetium
  • the mineral ytterbia into two oxides—
  • Magnitudes
  • Multiplication of two lengths
  • Making things happen
  • Two magnets may repel or attract.
  • Maya calendar
  • The Mayan week had two ways to reckon weeks.
  • These two give us a cycle of 260 k'ins
  • Memristor
  • sandwiched between two metallic electrodes.
  • Micrometer
  • Then Gascoigne realized that by placing two parallel hairs
  • More than one, less than two
  • between any two points on the line
  • Neodymium
  • two new elements—
  • Nicol prism
  • by gluing together two pieces of Iceland spar
  • Nonius riffs
  • Two stars and a nonius make no constellation.
  • Number system
  • and irrational numbers such as the square root of two.
  • Optical refracting
  • uses two convex lenses.
  • had two plano-convex lenses.
  • Other electrical telegraphs
  • Two years later, David Alter
  • but completed a circuit across two of six wires
  • Pandemics
  • up to two hundred thousand died in Tokyo,
  • two-hundred-sixty-seven thousand died in Russia;
  • two-hundred-fifty thousand died in Europe;
  • two-hundred thousand died in the Philippines;
  • Pendulum clock
  • A vertical rod with two pallets
  • Perspectives
  • like a snail with sails. As I raised a toast to the two of us,
  • Philosophical language
  • “so that two, not knowing each other’s language,
  • Plutonium
  • of two and a half days, by negative beta emission
  • eighty-seven years and two-hundred seventy days—
  • Positronium
  • two or more of them make positronia.
  • Postulates
  • We indicate two parallel lines
  • Praseodymium
  • two elements,
  • Proof of the Pythagorean theorem
  • the sum of the squares of the other two sides.
  • Provinance
  • two by Hokusai and one by Hiroshige,
  • Public-key cryptography
  • Both Alice and Bob generate two keys,
  • Pyrometer
  • by mounting two levers
  • Rare dyes
  • a certain correspondence between the two?
  • Replica
  • Inside the complex, every two years for eternity,
  • Rings of Saturn
  • Galileo Galilei observed two children of Saturn in 1619.
  • Sagnac effect
  • although the two beams travel along the same path,
  • Samarium
  • his spectral analysis showed two new blue lines
  • two new elements in samarskite but one was samarium
  • Science in his day
  • two observatories, a papermill, and his own printing press.
  • Scoville scale
  • between two and a half and five thousand Scoville heat units.
  • Solid-state effects
  • followed by the transistor radio when I was two.
  • Spreading fire
  • and had a range of one to two kilometers.
  • Stirling engine
  • gas in chambers, and two pistons
  • two pistons can compress and expand a gas
  • Suanpan
  • Use five earth beads and two heaven beads
  • Surveying the earth
  • or as little as two percent,
  • Tautology
  • of only two possible values,
  • Terbium
  • Mosander found two impurities,
  • Thales’ theorem
  • Consider the two isosceles triangles OAB and OBC.
  • Therefore, two α plus two β equals 180 degrees,
  • Thales’ theorem
  • The chord of an angle between two radii
  • between the two points on the circle.
  • Thermoelectric effect
  • in an electric circuit with a junction of two metals
  • Thulium
  • He found two impurities in erbia
  • Transit of Venus
  • over the next two hundred years.
  • Universal babble (with dates)
  • combining over two-thousand unspoken symbols
  • Wedgwood scale
  • between two metal bars marked with scale gradations
  • Ytterbium
  • from ytterbium oxide two elements—
• two-seater
  • Automobile
  • without any brakes.
• tympanum
  • Acoustics
  • bringing to the tympanum of the ear a stimulus
• type
  • Algebra
  • into six basic types and showed how to solve them.
  • Atomic number 82
  • lead lineotype type, lead paint,
  • Catastrophist geology
  • he could convert hornblende into different types of rock,
  • Cat’s-whisker detector
  • Generally, the magic wasn’t in the type of crystal;
  • Enquiry into Plants
  • type of gall, length of roots, rate of growth,
  • Factory prototype
  • and surrounded by several other types of organelles.
  • Fathul Mujahidin
  • that depended on the type of rocket
  • Gamma ray
  • Ernest Rutherford identified two types of radioactive decay.
  • and identified a third type of ray that,
  • Rutherford named this third type of decay
  • Imprints
  • printed with wooden movable type, by Wang Zhen.
  • printed with metal movable type, in Korea.
  • printed with metal movable type by Johannes Gutenberg.
  • of a thousand volumes, reprinted with bronze movable type.
  • using metal moveable type by order of Emperor Go-Yōzei.
  • List of mesons
  • About 140 types of mesons,
  • Movable-type printing
  • creating the first movable-type printing method.
  • Other batteries
  • More battery types are in development
  • Principles of geology
  • types of rock (volcanic, sedimentary, metamorphic)
  • Telomere
  • and some types of white blood cells.
• typeface
  • Cipher
  • based on two intermixed typefaces
• typo
  • Thulium
  • is not a typo for Tin.
• Tyrannosaurus Rex
  • Pet dinosaurs
  • Small plastic Tyrannosaurus Rexes
  • Rexy stomps up the halls
• Tyrian
  • Rare dyes
  • The rare purple dye, Tyrian purple,
• Tzolk'in
  • Maya calendar
  • and the Tzolk'in date in the ritual calendar:
• Tzu T’ung
  • Rocket
  • In 994, the city of Tzu T’ung was the first

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