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  2. Oxygen - Wikipedia

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    Oxygen is a chemical element; it has symbol O and atomic number 8. It is a member of the chalcogen group in the periodic table, a highly reactive nonmetal, and an oxidizing agent that readily forms oxides with most elements as well as with other compounds. Oxygen is the most abundant element in Earth's crust, and after hydrogen and helium, it ...

  3. List of chemical elements named after places - Wikipedia

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    * - The element mercury was named directly for the deity, with only indirect naming connection to the planet (see etymology of mercury). ** - Phosphorus was the Ancient Greek name for the planet Venus. (see etymology of phosphorus). See also. List of chemical elements named after people; List of chemical element name etymologies; References

  4. List of chemical element name etymologies - Wikipedia

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    · Former name azote (French), from Greek ἄζωτος (azōtos) "lifeless" but possibly inspired by azoth, one of the alchemical names of mercury, from Andalusian Arabic al-zuq, the Classical Arabic name of that element. Oxygen (O) 8 ὀξύ γείνομαι (oxy geinomai)/ oxygène: Greek via French "to bring forth acid"

  5. CSS - Wikipedia

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    To demonstrate specificity Inheritance Inheritance is a key feature in CSS; it relies on the ancestor-descendant relationship to operate. Inheritance is the mechanism by which properties are applied not only to a specified element but also to its descendants. Inheritance relies on the document tree, which is the hierarchy of XHTML elements in a page based on nesting. Descendant elements may ...

  6. Flerovium - Wikipedia

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    Flerovium is a superheavy synthetic chemical element; it has symbol Fl and atomic number 114. It is an extremely radioactive element, named after the Flerov Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna, Russia, where the element was discovered in 1999. The lab's name, in turn, honours Russian physicist ...

  7. Holmium - Wikipedia

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    Holmium is a chemical element; it has symbol Ho and atomic number 67. It is a rare-earth element and the eleventh member of the lanthanide series. It is a relatively soft, silvery, fairly corrosion -resistant and malleable metal. Like many other lanthanides, holmium is too reactive to be found in native form, as pure holmium slowly forms a ...

  8. HTML element - Wikipedia

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    t. e. An HTML element is a type of HTML (HyperText Markup Language) document component, one of several types of HTML nodes (there are also text nodes, comment nodes and others). [vague] The first used version of HTML was written by Tim Berners-Lee in 1993 and there have since been many versions of HTML.

  9. Talk:Bootstrap (front-end framework) - Wikipedia

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    David Spector ( talk) 20:35, 10 April 2013 (UTC) [ reply] Bootstrap is not hosted on a CDN by its authors because they intend it to be modified by developers. So it really should be downloaded before use. However, I've updated the code (and fixed a bug in it) linking to a CDN that hosts it.