The Department's constant fight with the House for money is a polite minuet compared with its periodic bloody engagements with the Senate.

It is in group 18 ( noble gases ) of the periodic table.

As expected by periodic trends, it is more electronegative than tin or bismuth, and less electronegative than tellurium or arsenic.

The group of elements is more diverse than the lanthanides and therefore it was not until 1945 that Glenn T. Seaborg proposed the most significant change to Mendeleev's periodic table, by introducing the actinides.

This transuranic element of the actinide series is located in the periodic table below the lanthanide element europium, and thus by analogy was named after another continent, America.

Among the first 101 elements in the periodic table, only francium is less stable.

The table itself is a visual representation of the periodic law, which states that certain chemical properties of elements repeat periodically when arranged by atomic number.

These results refined Ernest Rutherford's and Antonius Van den Broek's model, which proposed that the atom contains in its nucleus a number of positive nuclear charges that is equal to its ( atomic ) number in the periodic table.

As the meter is defined in terms of the second, and the speed of light is constant for all observers, the terrestrial meter appears to change in length compared to the " planetary meter " on a periodic basis.

Evidence of this is the Antarctic Circumpolar Wave, a periodic oscillation that affects the climate of much of the southern hemisphere.

It is a mathematical tool for finding repeating patterns, such as the presence of a periodic signal which has been buried under noise, or identifying the missing fundamental frequency in a signal implied by its harmonic frequencies.

Botswana is affected by periodic droughts, and seasonal August winds blow from the west, carrying sand and dust, which can obscure visibility.

It is one of only two elements on the periodic table that are known to be liquids at room temperature ( mercury is the other, although caesium, gallium, and rubidium melt just above room temperature ).

In the periodic table, it is located to the right of the actinide curium, to the left of the actinide californium and below the lanthanide terbium with which it shares many similarities in physical and chemical properties.

In order to win the final cash prize, all the contestants have to do is survive periodic evictions and be the last one standing.

The standard presentation of the chemical elements is in the periodic table, which orders elements by atomic number and groups them by electron configuration.

As a member of group 14 on the periodic table, it is nonmetallic and tetravalent — making four electrons available to form covalent chemical bonds.

The periodic arrays of submicrometre spherical particles provide similar arrays of interstitial voids, which act as a natural diffraction grating for visible light waves, particularly when the interstitial spacing is of the same order of magnitude as the incident lightwave.

The electrical part of the heart is centered on the periodic contraction ( squeezing ) of the muscle cells that is caused by the cardiac pacemaker located in the sinoatrial node.

Rainfall is irregular, historically causing periodic droughts and famines.

One of the most convenient, and certainly the most traditional presentation of the elements, is in form of periodic table, which groups elements with similar chemical properties ( and usually also similar electronic structures ) together.

A more refined classification is often shown in colored presentations of the periodic table ; this system restricts the terms " metal " and " nonmetal " to only certain of the more broadly defined metals and nonmetals, adding additional terms for certain sets of the more broadly viewed metals and nonmetals.

What can be done for the `` individual contributor '' who is extremely important -- and likely to be more so -- in the operation of the technically oriented company??

The largest natural contributor to public radiation dose is radon, a naturally occurring, radioactive gas found in soil and rock.

Classical Arminianism, which sees Arminius as the main contributor, and Wesleyan Arminianism, which sees John Wesley as the main contributor, are the two main outlooks on how the system is realistic in detail.

Andrew " Tridge " Tridgell ( born 28 February 1967 ) is an Australian computer programmer best known as the author of and contributor to the Samba file server, and co-inventor of the rsync algorithm.

The main Iranian contributor to Brahui vocabulary, Balochi, is a Northwestern Iranian language, and moved to the area from the west only around 1000 AD.

The reliance on judicial opinion is a strength of common law systems, and is a significant contributor to the robust commercial systems in the United Kingdom and United States.

However, in the US, grilled / barbecued meat is the second highest contributor of the mean daily intake of

The environmental impact of concrete is a complex mixture of not entirely negative effects ; while concrete is a major contributor to greenhouse gas emissions, recycling of concrete is increasingly common in structures that have reached the end of their life.

Within the forestry sector, the largest contributor to total production is pulp, followed by wood-based panels and lumber.

Tourism is growing at an accelerated pace and many believe that income from this tourism may soon become the major contributor to the nation's GDP.

As well as writing comedy, Anderson is also a frequent contributor to newspapers, and was a regular columnist in the Sunday Correspondent.

Unemployment is extremely high at over 43 percent and is a major contributor to widespread poverty.

Experts do not agree on whether industrial logging is an important contributor to global deforestation.

Deforestation is a contributor to global warming, and is often cited as one of the major causes of the enhanced greenhouse effect.

He was a prominent person during the Enlightenment and is best known for serving as co-founder and chief editor of and contributor to the Encyclopédie along with Jean le Rond d ' Alembert.

An exceptionally prolific contributor is Christine Sutton of the University of Oxford, who contributed 24 articles on particle physics.

He was a contributor to The New Yorker magazine and a co-author of the English language style guide, The Elements of Style, which is commonly known as " Strunk & White.

The illustrator, Maira Kalman, is a contributor to the New Yorker.

This is reflected in total factor productivity and the Solow residual used in economic models called production functions that account for the contributions of capital and labor, yet have some unexplained contributor which is commonly called technological progress.