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The mill reek and the Devonshire colic.
According to the Statistical Account of Scotland (Maconochie, 1792) the village of Leadhills in Lanarkshire contains the most famous and ancient lead mines in Scotland. They were included in a grant of lands to the monks of Newbattle Abbey in 1239 and, from a lawsuit soon afterwards, it is clear that the mines were in production about that date. Depending on demand and the price of lead they ha...
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We reanalyse the cell theory of Lennard-Jones and Devonshire and find that in addition to the critical point originally reported for the 12−6 potential (and widely quoted in standard textbooks), the model exhibits a further critical point. We show that the latter is actually a more appropriate candidate for liquid-gas criticality than the original critical point. Typeset using REVTEX
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The end Permian extinction was the greatest mass extinction of the Phanerozoic Era. It impacted marine and terrestrial plants and animals. Although the rate of the extinction has been controversial in the past, recent evidence suggests that the extinction progressed in two pulses approximately 5-12 million years apart. The second pulse of the extinction is marked by a sharp temperature spike an...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Geological Magazine
سال: 1892
ISSN: 0016-7568,1469-5081
DOI: 10.1017/s0016756800145881