Word: phenomenons
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While still unproved, the hypothesis is stirring a debate about an aeronautical phenomenon called wake vortex. That dry bit of technical jargon refers to the rotating, high-energy tornadoes that spiral behind and downward from the wing tips of an aircraft. Such turbulence behaves much like the wake of a ship: the heavier the vessel's displacement weight, the more violent and long lasting the disturbance. In air, as on water, if a craft trails this whirling vortex too closely, it can be buffeted brutally. For more than a decade the National Transportation Safety Board, which investigates accidents, has exhorted...
Shoot neutrons through a liquid or solid, and these subatomic particles will bounce off the atoms inside. The angles at which the quantum bullets ricochet tell scientists how the target atoms are arranged. That knowledge has already led to advances in semiconductors and may someday explain the bizarre phenomenon of high-temperature superconductivity. Clifford Shull, now retired from M.I.T., and Bertram Brockhouse from McMaster University in Ontario, Canada, helped perfect neutron-scattering techniques in the 1940s and '50s. Today, nearly a half-century later, they have Nobels to show for it. Ironically, the man who did the pioneering work...
Some Wampanoags suggest that the casino expresses a part of their identity as a tribe, an extension of a phenomenon that has developed in tribes across the country who have incorporated casinos into their culture...
Ellison said he sees the phenomenon as part of the same nationwide pattern in which women tend to score lower on the math portion of the Scholastic Aptitude Test than their male counterparts...
Many of them got a taste of the band this week. The Dead, a much misunderstood phenomenon, rolled into Boston this week and brought its family of thousands...