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  2. Human brain - Wikipedia

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    Human brain. The brain is the central organ of the human nervous system, and with the spinal cord makes up the central nervous system. The brain consists of the cerebrum, the brainstem and the cerebellum. It controls most of the activities of the body, processing, integrating, and coordinating the information it receives from the sense organs ...

  3. Raccoon - Wikipedia

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    The raccoon(/rəˈkuːn/or US: /ræˈkuːn/ ⓘ, Procyon lotor), also spelled racoon[3]and sometimes called the common raccoonor northern raccoonto distinguish it from the other species, is a mammalnative to North America. It is the largest of the procyonidfamily, having a body length of 40 to 70 cm (16 to 28 in), and a body weight of 5 to 26 ...

  4. Down syndrome - Wikipedia

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    Down syndrome (United States) or Down's syndrome (United Kingdom and other English-speaking nations), also known as trisomy 21, is a genetic disorder caused by the presence of all or part of a third copy of chromosome 21. [ 3] It is usually associated with developmental delays, mild to moderate intellectual disability, and characteristic ...

  5. Human iron metabolism - Wikipedia

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    Human iron metabolism is the set of chemical reactions that maintain human homeostasis of iron at the systemic and cellular level. Iron is both necessary to the body and potentially toxic. Controlling iron levels in the body is a critically important part of many aspects of human health and disease.

  6. Hydrogen peroxide - Wikipedia

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    Hydrogen peroxide is a chemical compound with the formula H 2 O 2.In its pure form, it is a very pale blue [5] liquid that is slightly more viscous than water.It is used as an oxidizer, bleaching agent, and antiseptic, usually as a dilute solution (3%–6% by weight) in water for consumer use and in higher concentrations for industrial use.

  7. Sun - Wikipedia

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    Sun. The Sun is the star at the center of the Solar System. It is a massive, nearly perfect sphere of hot plasma, heated to incandescence by nuclear fusion reactions in its core, radiating the energy from its surface mainly as visible light and infrared radiation with 10% at ultraviolet energies.

  8. Mind map - Wikipedia

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    t. e. A mind map is a diagram used to visually organize information into a hierarchy, showing relationships among pieces of the whole. [ 1] It is often created around a single concept, drawn as an image in the center of a blank page, to which associated representations of ideas such as images, words and parts of words are added.

  9. Dow Jones-UBS Commodity Index Fact Sheet - HuffPost

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    more than 33% of the index and no single commodity constitutes more than 15% or less than 2% of the index. Between rebalancings, weightings may fluctuate to levels outside these limits. Review Frequency Reweighted and rebalanced annually on a price-percentage basis Base Value/Base Date 100 as of December 31, 1990 Calculation Frequency Every 15 ...