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    engineering, a critical mass is the smallest amount of fissile material needed for a sustained nuclear chain reaction. The critical mass of a fissionable...
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    Critical Mass is a form of direct action in which people travel as a group on bicycles at a set location and time. The idea is for people to group together...
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  • up critical mass in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Critical mass is the amount of fissile material needed to sustain nuclear fission. Critical mass may...
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  • In social dynamics, critical mass is a sufficient number of adopters of a new idea, technology or innovation in a social system so that the rate of adoption...
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  • In software engineering, critical mass is a stage in the life cycle when the source code grows too complicated to effectively manage without a complete...
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  • Critical Mass is a 2001 action film directed by Fred Olen Ray (credited as "Ed Raymond") and released direct-to-video. It stars Treat Williams, Lori Loughlin...
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  • Duke Nukem: Critical Mass is a shooter game developed by Frontline Studios and published by Deep Silver and Apogee Software, LLC for the Nintendo DS....
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  • chain reaction, or simply critical. Any such event involves the unintended accumulation or arrangement of a critical mass of fissile material, for example...
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    Friedmann–Lemaître–Robertson–Walker metric and a perfect fluid with a given mass density ρ and pressure p. The equations for negative spatial curvature were...
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    a Critical Mass event became violent, Brown said, "I think we ought to confiscate their bicycles" and "a little jail time" would teach Critical Mass riders...
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  • Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads to Another, a non-fiction book by English chemist and physicist Philip Ball originally published in 2004, discusses...
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  • There have been many conflicts during Critical Mass events since the founding of the worldwide bicycling advocacy event in 1992. The conflicts have resulted...
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    Samuels 2008. The critical mass of any given nuclear system is not simply a matter of mass — it is a more complex function of the mass, its geometry, and...
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  • Critical Mass Melbourne is an informal grass roots collection of people who gather to take part in the month's Critical Mass event, which is a cycling...
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  • Critical Mass is a pressure group which began its days in opposition to the government of Margaret Thatcher. It supported the National Union of Mineworkers...
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    weapons-grade nuclear material must have a critical mass that is small enough to justify its use in a weapon. The critical mass for any material is the smallest...
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    containing less than one uncompressed critical mass each. A thin hollow shell can have more than the bare-sphere critical mass, as can a cylinder, which can be...
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  • continuous phase transition that takes place at absolute zero Critical mass, referring to criticality in nuclear physics, when a nuclear reactor's fissionable...
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    it is said to be critical, and the mass of 235U required to produce the critical condition is said to be a critical mass. A critical chain reaction can...
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  • or municipalities with a critical mass of at least 1.0% of the total urban population; medium-sized cities with a critical mass of at least 2.0% of the...
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    due rather than decreasing the supplier's average cost. Upon reaching critical mass, a bandwagon effect can result. As the network continues to become more...
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  • Critical Mass (known as Power! in North America) is a video game developed by Simon Francis and published in 1985 by Durell Software for the Amstrad CPC...
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  • Critical Mass is a Canadian Christian rock music group from Waterloo Region. The band is heavily influenced by its Catholic roots. They have produced...
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    Bike Ride (Portland, OR) Directed by Ian McCluskey Reclaim the Streets Critical Mass World Carfree Network Public nudity List of clothing-free events Clothing-optional...
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  • Professor. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-01470-1. Wilson, Reid (June 22, 2021). "GOP sees critical race theory battle as...
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  • Critical Mass is a studio album by the Dave Holland Quintet released in 2006 through Dare2, his second release for his own label. This is Holland's first...
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    which approach critical mass, particularly because plutonium's critical mass is only a third of that of uranium-235. A critical mass of plutonium emits...
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    the making of fast neutron calculations—the key to calculations of critical mass and weapon detonation—to Gregory Breit, who was given the title of "Co-ordinator...
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  • Critical Mass is the fourth studio album issued by the alternative metal band Ra. It was the group's first studio album publicly funded via Kickstarter...
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  • Critical Mass is the sixth album by British progressive metal band Threshold. It was recorded in early 2002 and released in September. It is also the...
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