The Langmuir Laboratory for Atmospheric Research near Socorro, New Mexico was named in his honor as was the American Chemical Society journal for Surface Science, called Langmuir.

Atmospheric pressures are usually stated using kilopascal ( kPa ), or atmospheres ( atm ), except in American meteorology where the hectopascal ( hPa ) and millibar ( mbar ) are preferred.

* Chair of the American Association for the Advancement of Science ’ s Section on Atmospheric and Hydrospheric Sciences ( 1999 – 2001 ).

* Coast Pilots, American navigation publication distributed yearly by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Office of Coast Survey

* Alexander Dallas Bache: Leader of American Science and Second Superintendent of the United States Coast Survey ( National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration )

* Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, a scientific journal published by the American Meteorological Society

According to the American National Center for Atmospheric Research, " The total mean mass of the atmosphere is 5. 1480 kg with an annual range due to water vapor of 1. 2 or 1. 5 kg depending on whether surface pressure or water vapor data are used ; somewhat smaller than the previous estimate.

* Linwood Pendleton ( 1964-), American environmental economist, Acting Chief Economist of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ( NOAA ).

Illustration from the 19th century, published by the American National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Among many other speakers: Tyler Volk, Co-director of the Program in Earth and Environmental Science at New York University ; Dr. Donald Aitken, Principal of Donald Aitken Associates ; Dr. Thomas Lovejoy, President of the Heinz Center for Science, Economics and the Environment ; Robert Correll, Senior Fellow, Atmospheric Policy Program, American Meteorological Society and noted environmental ethicist, J. Baird Callicott.

* Environmental Effects of Increased Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide 2007, AB Robinson, NE Robinson, & W. Soon, J. American Physicians & Surgeons

Larry W. Esposito ( born April 15, 1951 ) is an American planetary astronomer and a Professor at the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado.

* Roger M. Wakimoto and Ramesh Srivastava, Radar and Atmospheric Science: A Collection of Essays in Honor of David Atlas, publié par l ' American Meteorological Society, Boston, August 2003.

In modern American usage, additionally applied to U. S. Coast Guard and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Commissioned Corps officers and general officers in the U. S. Army, U. S. Air Force, and U. S. Marine Corps entitled to fly their own flags.

Pielke has served as Chairman and Member of the American Meteorological Society Committee on Weather Forecasting and Analysis, as Chief Editor of Monthly Weather Review, was elected a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society in 1982 and a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union in 2004, has served as Editor-in-Chief of the US National Science Report to the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics, as Co-Chief Editor of the Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, and as Editor of Scientific Online Letters on the Atmosphere .< ref >

According to the history of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's ( NOAA ) American Samoa observatory, “ Hurricane Val ” struck the Tutuila Island from December 7 – 10th.

Even apart from the fact that now at the age of 31 my personal life is being totally disrupted for the second time for no very compelling reason -- I cannot help looking around at the black leather jacket brigades standing idly on the street corners and in the taverns of every American city and asking myself if our society has gone mad.

They wore shoes with pointed toes, odd to American eyes, and narrow trousers, and their hair looked unnaturally black and slick.

American black bear, racking horse, Yellow-shafted Flicker, wild turkey, Atlantic tarpon, largemouth bass, Southern Longleaf Pine, Eastern tiger swallowtail, Monarch butterfly, Alabama red-bellied turtle, Red Hills salamander, camellia, oak-leaf hydrangea, peach, pecan, and blackberry are Alabama's state symbols.

The black caiman and American Alligator are the only members of the alligator family that pose the same danger to humans as the larger species of the crocodile family.

* 1963 – American civil rights movement: James Meredith becomes the first black person to graduate from the University of Mississippi.

She makes the argument that grouping all people of African descent together regardless of their unique ancestral circumstances would inevitably deny the lingering effects of slavery within the American community of slave descendents, in addition to denying black immigrants recognition of their own unique ancestral backgrounds.

She argues that the convergence of sexism and racism during slavery contributed to black women having the lowest status and worst conditions of any group in American society.

The film satirizes the racism obscured by myth-making Hollywood accounts of the American West, with the hero being a black sheriff in an all-white town.

As of 2012, this and the American black bear are the only bear species not classified as threatened by the IUCN.

As a result, in North America, the term " black people " is not an indicator of skin color but of socially based racial classification related to being African American, with a history related to institutionalized slavery.

In 1835 black leaders called upon black Americans to remove the title of " African " from their institutions and replace it with " Negro " or " Colored American ".

Surveys show that the majority of black Americans have no preference for " African American " or " Black ," although they have a slight preference for " black " in personal settings and " African-American " in more formal settings.

A considerable portion of the U. S. population identified as black also has some Native American or European ancestry.

Commentators have questioned whether Obama, who was elected the first black President of the United States, is black enough, as his mother was white American, and his father was a black Kenyan immigrant.

Example: In American Roulette, there are two zeroes and 36 non-zero numbers ( 18 red and 18 black ).

Examples of species listed on Appendix II are the Great White Shark ( Carcharadon carcharias ), the American black bear ( Ursus americanus ), Hartmann's mountain zebra ( Equus hartmannae ), African grey parrot ( Psittacus erithacus ), green iguana ( Iguana iguana ), queen conch ( Strombus gigas ), Mertens ' Water Monitor ( Varanus mertensi ), bigleaf mahogany ( Swietenia macrophylla ) and Lignum Vitae " ironwood " ( Guaiacum officinale ).

FBI records show that 85 % of COINTELPRO resources targeted groups and individuals that the FBI deemed " subversive ," including communist and socialist organizations ; organizations and individuals associated with the civil rights movement, including Martin Luther King, Jr. and others associated with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and the Congress of Racial Equality and other civil rights organizations ; black nationalist groups ; the American Indian Movement ; a broad range of organizations labeled " New Left ", including Students for a Democratic Society and the Weathermen ; almost all groups protesting the Vietnam War, as well as individual student demonstrators with no group affiliation ; the National Lawyers Guild ; organizations and individuals associated with the women's rights movement ; nationalist groups such as those seeking independence for Puerto Rico, United Ireland, and Cuban exile movements including Orlando Bosch's Cuban Power and the Cuban Nationalist Movement ; and additional notable Americans — even Albert Einstein, who was a member of several civil rights groups, came under FBI surveillance during the years just prior to COINTELPRO's official inauguration .< ref >

Fur colour in American wolves ranges from white, black, red, yellow, brown, grey, and grizzled skins, and others representing every shade between, although usually each locality has its prevailing tint.

He was described as a " race man ": an African American who dedicated his skills to the furtherance of the black race.

Spiral served as a collective of conversation and artistic exploration for a large group of artists who " addressed how black artists should relate to American society in a time of segregation.

The Maritimes also have a black population who are mostly descendants of African American loyalists or refugees from the War of 1812, largely concentrated in Nova Scotia but also in various communities throughout southern New Brunswick, Cape Breton ( where the black population is largely of West Indian descent ), and Prince Edward Island.

* Bobby Ellsworth, American thrash metal musician known as Blitz

* Cortical Tectonics, the third studio album by American progressive metal band Canvas Solaris.

* Chimaira, an American heavy metal band from Cleveland, Ohio

Sometimes non-monetized bullion coins such as the Canadian Maple Leaf and the American Gold Eagle are minted with nominal face values less than the value of the metal in them, but as such coins are never intended for circulation, these value numbers are not market but fiat values.

* Down ( band ), an American southern heavy metal supergroup

Deicide is an American death metal band formed in 1987.

Category: American death metal musical groups

* 1971 – Merritt Gant, American thrash metal guitarist ( Overkill )

Modern bullion coins for investment or collector purposes do not require good mechanical wear properties ; they are typically fine gold at 24k, although the American Gold Eagle and the British gold sovereign continue to be minted in 22k metal in historical tradition.

Sore Throat cites Discharge, Disorder, and a variety of European D-beat and thrash metal groups, including Hellhammer, and American hardcore groups, such as Poison Idea and DRI.

Journalist Kevin Stewart-Panko argues that the American grindcore of the 1990s borrowed from three sources: British grindcore, the American precursors, and death metal.

American groups also often employ riffs taken from crossover thrash or thrash metal.

* Opprobrium ( band ), American death metal band from Louisiana originally known as Incubus

Category: American heavy metal guitarists

Category: American heavy metal musical groups

* Morpheus ( band ) an American death metal band formed in 1990, changed name to Morpheus Descends in 1992

* Morpheus ( band ) an American thrash metal band formed in 1992

Around the time of the American Civil War, syrup makers started using large, flat sheet metal pans as they were more efficient for boiling than heavy, rounded iron kettles, because of a greater surface area for evaporation.

Norman Hackerman ( March 2, 1912 – June 16, 2007 ) was an American chemist, internationally known as an expert in metal corrosion, and a former president of both the University of Texas at Austin ( 1967 – 1970 ) and Rice University ( 1970 – 1985 ).

* American progressive metal band Symphony X interprets multiple scenes of the epic in their song, The Odyssey ( 2002 ).

Composite forged metal frames were preferred by many European makers until the American system was fully adopted by the early 20th century.

American bands whose loud, repetitive psychedelic rock emerged as early heavy metal included Ted Nugent's Amboy Dukes and Steppenwolf.

Not only were there rival machines with " down-stroke " and " frontstroke " positions that gave a visible printing point, the problem of typebar clashes could be circumvented completely: examples include Thomas Edison's 1872 electric print-wheel device which later became the basis for Teletype machines ; Lucien Stephen Crandall's typewriter ( the second to come onto the American market ) whose type was arranged on a cylindrical sleeve ; the Hammond typewriter of 1887 which used a semi-circular " type-shuttle " of hardened rubber ( later light metal ); and the Blickensderfer typewriter of 1893 which used a type wheel.

As of August 31, 2011, Rush switched their American distribution from Atlantic Records over to the Warner Brothers majority-owned metal label, Roadrunner Records.