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Brownian motion or pedesis ( from " leaping ") is the presumably random moving of particles suspended in a fluid ( a liquid or a gas ) resulting from their bombardment by the fast-moving atoms or molecules in the gas or liquid.
While people expected elements with higher atomic number to form from neutron bombardment of lighter elements, nobody expected neutrons to have enough energy to actually split a heavier atom into two light element fragments, and it was thought still more unlikely that slow neutrons could accomplish such a task.
Bohr grabbed him by the shoulder and said: “ Young man, let me explain to you about something new and exciting in physics .” It was clear to a number of scientists at Columbia that they should try to detect the energy released in the nuclear fission of uranium from neutron bombardment.
However, subsequent bombardment from American naval vessels leaves it gravely wounded.
* 1777 – American Revolutionary War: Siege of Fort Ticonderoga – After a bombardment by British artillery under General John Burgoyne, American forces retreat from Fort Ticonderoga, New York.
Following several weeks of aerial bombardment, a U. S .- led United Nations ( UN ) coalition began a ground assault on 23 February 1991 that completely removed Iraqi forces from Kuwait in four days.
The Imperial Navy's tasks were then to prevent any invasion force from landing and to protect coastal towns from possible bombardment.
# Hadean: dominated by heavy bombardment from about 4. 51, ( possibly including a Cool Early Earth period ) to the end of the Late Heavy Bombardment period.
Sputtering is a process whereby atoms are ejected from a solid target material due to bombardment of the target by energetic particles.
The lyrics come from " Defence of Fort McHenry ", a poem written in 1814 by the 35-year-old lawyer and amateur poet, Francis Scott Key, after witnessing the bombardment of Fort McHenry by the British Royal Navy ships in Chesapeake Bay during the Battle of Fort McHenry in the War of 1812.
After the bombardment, certain British gunboats attempted to slip past the fort and effect a landing in a cove to the west of it, but they were turned away by fire from nearby Fort Covington, the city's last line of defense.
Greaves noted at the time of her research: " it is likely that planets will experience constant bombardment from asteroids of the kind believed to have wiped out the dinosaurs.
One of the first " sister city " projects was that established between Stalingrad and England's Coventry during World War II ( as both suffered extensive devastation from aerial bombardment ).
* April 18 – Danish-Prussian War ( Second War of Schleswig ) – Battle of Dybbøl: The Prussian army fielding 10, 000 men defeats the Danish defending army of 9, 200 at Dybbøl Mill, after an artillery bombardment from April 7 to April 18.
The prospect of aerial bombardment of civilian areas was causing the government anxiety with heavy bombers able to approach from altitudes that anti-aircraft guns of the day were unable to reach.
Malaysian Army conduct the artillery bombardment from remote locations which targeted CPM positions in the Malaysian Thai border which the artillery was transported using a under slung.
X-10 was a demonstration plant for the process to produce plutonium from uranium by nuclear bombardment.
Many naturally-occurring radioisotopes ( another 51 or so, for a total of about 339 ) exhibit still shorter half-lives than 80 million years, but they are made freshly, as daughter products of decay processes of primordial nuclides ( for example, radium from uranium ) or from ongoing energetic reactions, such as cosmogenic nuclides produced by present bombardment of Earth by cosmic rays ( for example, carbon-14 made from nitrogen ).
Natural processes which produce trace radioisotopes include cosmic ray bombardment of stable nuclides, ordinary alpha and beta decay of the long-lived heavy nuclides, Thorium-232, Uranium-238, and Uranium-235, spontaneous fission of natural Uranium-238, and nuclear transmutation reactions induced by natural radioactivity, such as the production of Plutonium-239 and Uranium-236 from neutron capture
These developments prompted calls from the German civilian public for a bombardment of the city.
Triton's reddish colour is thought to be the result of methane ice, which is converted to tholins under bombardment from ultraviolet radiation.

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Civilian deaths due to military action were about 3, 400 including 2, 293 by attacks on shipping, 958 during air raids and 142 by sea bombardment.
The 1922 War Office report detailed the deaths of 1, 260 civilians and 310 military personnel due to air and sea bombardment of the UK Losses at sea were 908 UK civilians and 63 fisherman killed by U-Boat attacks
The meaning of military tactics has changed over time from the deployment and manoeuvreing of entire land armies on the fields of ancient battles, and galley fleets, to modern use of small unit ambushes, encirclements, bomb and bombardment attacks, frontal assaults, air assaults, hit-and-run tactics used mainly by guerrilla forces and, in some cases, suicide attacks on land and at sea.
However, the Japanese were able to use Munda despite regular bombardment from both air and sea, and the Americans ' New Georgia Campaign spent July 1943 closing in on Munda overland, capturing it on 6 August.
The 22d maintained a strategic bombardment alert posture from 1973 – 1982, but in 1978 it added conventional warfare missions, including mine-laying and sea reconnaissance / surveillance.
It was not until February 13, 1861 that Francis II was forced to capitulate when the withdrawal of the French fleet made bombardment from the sea possible, thus sealing the annexation of the Kingdom of Naples to the Kingdom of Italy.
The choice of this title was somewhat ironic as it had been the name of a Napoleonic duché grand-fief but only the withdrawal of the French fleet made the bombardment of Gaeta from the sea by Cialdini's forces possible.
After massive bombardment from land and sea and seizure of the external rampart of the fortress by the Ukrainian and Don Cossaks on July 17, the Azov garrison surrendered on July 19.
However, by this time artillery technology had improved beyond anything that Finnart's defences could withstand, and the garrison soon surrendered under bombardment from land and sea.
Proceeding through unfamiliar waters, he took advantage of adverse weather to lay a large quantity of explosive mines along sea lanes extensively used by the enemy and, in addition, delivered a smashing naval bombardment against Japanese shore installations on these islands.
Also on 1 November, after a heavy naval bombardment by the British Royal Navy, troops of 4th Commando Brigade, ( with units for 10th Inter Allied Commando, consisting mainly of Belgian and Norwegian troops ) supported by specialised armoured vehicles of the 79th Armoured Division were landed on both sides of the gap in the sea dyke.
The bombardment from the blockaders was severe and the damage to Florida was so great that Maffitt did not return to sea for more than three months.
The Luftwaffe kept up the pressure on Soviet sea communications and although supplies still made it through, Vice Admiral Oktyabrskiy, commanding the Black Sea Fleet, was forced to reduce the number of coastal bombardment missions.
) After two weeks of bombardment from sea and land, General Richard L. Page, commander of the fort, felt compelled to surrender.
Fleets may carry supply, may carry ground units for invasions ( 3 factors to carry each ground factor, i. e. a whole fleet to carry an infantry corps-a beach hex containing a port may not be invaded if a 9-factor fleet is in the hex ), may give shore bombardment ( 3 naval factors count as one ground factor in invasions or attacks on coastal fortresses ), may sea transport ( carry ground units in the combat phase, 2 factors per ground factor-Germany often transports units into Latvia ) or may sea escort ( a whole 9-factor fleet to help a single ground unit SR over water ).

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The next atmosphere, probably consisting largely of nitrogen ( partly in the form of ammonia ), carbon dioxide, water vapor and other gases, but no free oxygen, was produced by outgassing from volcanism, supplemented by gases produced during the late heavy bombardment of Earth by huge asteroids.
The next atmosphere, consisting largely of nitrogen plus carbon dioxide and inert gases, was produced by outgassing from volcanism, supplemented by gases produced during the late heavy bombardment of Earth by huge asteroids.

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The Parthenon colonnades, largely destroyed by Venetian bombardment in the 17th century, were restored, with many wrongly assembled columns now properly placed.
Beryllium also releases neutrons under bombardment by gamma rays.
Despite this, aircraft today are much more extensively used as the primary tools for both army and navy, as evidenced by the prominent use of helicopters to transport and support troops, the use of aerial bombardment as the " first strike " in many engagements, and the replacement of the battleship with the aircraft carrier as the center of most modern navies.
To achieve a breakout, armoured forces would attack the enemy's defensive line directly, supported by motorized infantry, artillery fire and aerial bombardment, in order to create a breach in the enemy's line.
He wrote: " It is a matter of great regret that the throwing of bombs by zeppelins on London was denounced as a most savage act and the bombardment of places of worship and sacred spots was considered a most abominable operation.
It is the heaviest element that can be formed by neutron bombardment of lighter elements, and hence the last element that can be prepared in macroscopic quantities, although pure fermium metal has not yet been prepared.
The treaty negotiated by England's envoy after a nine-hour bombardment of Algiers resulted in a treaty on 24 September 1816.
* 1723 – After a siege and bombardment by cannon, Baku surrenders to the Russians.
* 1898 – After over two months of sea-based bombardment, the United States invasion of Puerto Rico begins with U. S. troops led by General Nelson Miles landing at harbor of Guánica, Puerto Rico.
In the Battle of Ushant with the French in 1778, Lord Keppel commanded the Channel Fleet and the outcome resulted in no clear winner ; Keppel ordered to renew the attack and this was obeyed except by Sir Hugh Palliser, who commanded the rear, and the French escaped bombardment.
Additionally to the bombardment campaign conducted by Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, tension between the Shia Hazara Hezb-i Wahdat of Abdul Ali Mazari and the Sunni Pashtun Ittihad-i Islami of Abdul Rasul Sayyaf soon escalated into a second violent conflict.
Hekmatyar and Dostum in January 1994 conducted the worst mass bombardment of Kabul during that period, but were eventually repelled by Islamic State forces of Ahmad Shah Massoud.
Ma Bufang was fully supported by the Kuomintang President of China Chiang Kaishek, who ordered him to prepare his Muslim army to invade Tibet several times and threatened aerial bombardment on the Tibetans.
The weapon is less accurate than conventional artillery guns, but is extremely effective in saturation bombardment, and was particularly feared by German soldiers.
The filament voltage to ground is usually at a potential of 30 volts, while the grid voltage at 180 – 210 volts DC, unless there is an optional electron bombardment feature, by heating the grid, which may have a high potential of approximately 565 volts.
* Mariner 4 – Communications lost after bombardment by micrometeoroids.
Nuclear reactions are thus driven by the mechanics of bombardment, not by the relatively constant exponential decay and half-life characteristic of spontaneous radioactive processes.
In a nuclear reactor or nuclear weapon, the overwhelming majority of fission events are induced by bombardment with another particle, a neutron, which is itself produced by prior fission events.
On 26 September 1687, an Ottoman ammunition dump inside the building was ignited by Venetian bombardment.

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