Andromeda (A Space-Age Tale) - читать бесплатно онлайн полную версию книги автора Ivan Yefremov (ч. notes)

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Billion — is used in its European meaning of a million millions (1012).

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Parsec — the unit of measure of astronomical distance, equal to 3.26 light years or 32×1012 km.

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Sporamin — a drug to maintain the organism active over long periods without sleep (imaginary).

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Anameson — atomic fuel in which the meson bonds of the nucleus have been disrupted; it has an exhaust velocity equal to the speed of light (imaginary).

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Bomb Beacons — automatic radio robots transmitting signals powerful enough to penetrate the atmosphere of a planet. They were dropped from the spaceships for reconnaissance purposes (imaginary).

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Independent Year — a terrestrial year that is Independent of the speed of the spaceship.

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Spectral Classes — are indicated by the letters 0, B, A, F, G, K, M. They range from hot blue stars with a surface temperature of 100,000 °C. to red stars with a temperature of 3,000 °C. Each class has ten descending degrees of magnitude shown by indices, as A;. There are special classes N, P, R and S with an augmented content of carbon, cyanogen, titanium and zirconium in their spectra. N. B. In other systems of classification the spectral classes 0, B, A and F are all called,white stars” and not,blue stars” as here.

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Quantum Limit — velocity close to that of light (subphotonic velocity) at which a solid body cannot exist: the point at which the mass is equal to infinity and time is equal to zero.

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K-particles — particles formed inside the atomic nucleus from fragments of the circular meson cloud (imaginary).

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Isograves — lines of equal intensity in a gravitational field (imaginary).

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Atomized Solid Oxygen — oxygen that is not in its usual molecular form (02) but in the form of separate atoms. This form produces more intensive chemical reactions and permits of greater compression than the molecular state.

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Optimal Radiant — the optimal radius of the orbit of the spaceship about a planet and outside its atmosphere; the radius that gives ship a constant, unchanging orbit; depends on the volume and mass of the planet (imaginary).

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Kelvin Scale — a temperature scale beginning from absolute zero which is — 273 °C, or — 459° F. The temperature 320° K is equal to 4- 47 °C. or 116.6° F.

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Silicolloid — made of silicon, a transparent material produced from fibrous silicon-organic compounds (imaginary).

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Silicoborum — an amalgam of borum carbide and silicon to produce an extremely hard, transparent material (imaginary).

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Chlorella — a seaweed with a considerable albumin content.

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Chromokatoptric Colours — artist’s colours with a strong reflection of light from the inner layers (imaginary).

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Repagular Calculus — a calculus in bipolar mathematics that deals with moments of transition (repagulum) from one state or condition to another and from one mathematical sign to another (imaginary).

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Neurosecretory Stimulators — drugs made from the nervous excretions of the organism (neurosecretory substances) acting specifically on certain nerves (imaginary).

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Geological Bomb — a bomb of great explosive power dropped on to a planet under exploration to get samples of matter contained on the surface of the planet and hurled into the upper layers of the atmosphere by the explosion (imaginary).

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Bipolar Mathematics — mathematics based on dialectic logic, with opposite analyses and solutions (imaginary).

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Cochlear Calculus — a division of bipolar mathematics dealing with progressive spiral movement (imaginary).

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Stochastics — a branch of mathematics studying the laws of large numbers.

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Cytoarchitectonics — a detailed study of the structure of the brain according to the distribution and specialization of the nerve cells.

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Tiratron — an electronic instrument (electron lamp) to stimulate and maintain the nervous processes in the human organism, in particular the beating of the heart (imaginary).

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Third System of Signals — thought transmission without speech (imaginary).

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Overtone Diaphragms — diaphragms that transmit the overtones of the human voice and so remove all difference between the living voice and the sounds of its reproduction (imaginary).