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colloid
Substance consisting of particles substantially larger than atoms and ordinary molecules (10-7-10-3 cm), dispersed in a continuous phase. Both the disperse phase and the continuous phase may be solid, liquid, or gas; examples include suspensions, aerosols, smokes, emulsions, gels, sols, pastes, and foams. Colloids are often classified as reversible or irreversible, depending on whether their components can be separated. Dyes, detergents, polymers, proteins, and many other important substances exhibit colloidal behavior.
Dollond
British optical scientists. John developed an achromatic (non-color-distorting) refracting telescope and a practical heliometer (a telescope that measures the sun's diameter and the angles between celestial bodies). His grandson George worked most of his life for the family firm of instrument makers, inventing various precision instruments used in astronomy, geodesy, and navigation. His micrometer made of rock crystal was used by astronomers; his atmospheric recorder simultaneously measured and recorded on paper tape temperature, atmospheric pressure, wind speed and direction, evaporation, and electrical phenomena.
Jolliet
French-Canadian explorer. Born near Quebec, he led an expedition in the Great Lakes region in 1669. He was appointed to explore the Mississippi River with J. Marquette and five others. In 1673 they set out in birchbark canoes across Lake Michigan, following the Fox and Wisconsin rivers to the Mississippi, then down the Mississippi to its confluence with the Arkansas, concluding that the river flowed south to the Gulf of Mexico and not, as hoped, into the Pacific Ocean. After their return, Jolliet explored areas of Hudson Bay and the Labrador coast.
Pollock
U.S. painter. Born in Cody, Wyo., he grew up in California and Arizona. In the early 1930s he studied in New York under T. H. Benton, and later he was employed on the WPA Federal Art Project. In 1947, after several years of semiabstract work stimulated by psychotherapy, Pollock began to lay his canvas on the floor and pour or drip paint onto it in stages, a style exemplified by Number Ten, 1949, the black-and-white Number Thirty-two, 1950, and the mural-size Lavender Mist (1950). Though the novelty of his "drip" technique tended to overshadow the personal expression that the technique permitted him, he was recognized in his lifetime as a leading practitioner of Abstract Expressionism, particularly the form known as action painting. Championed by C. Greenberg and others, he became a celebrity. Separated from his wife, the artist Lee Krasner (1908-1984), he died in a car crash at 44.
Rollo
Scandinavian rover who founded the duchy of Normandy. After raiding Scotland, England, Flanders, and France on pirating expeditions, he took lands along the Seine River as his base (c.911). He battled Charles III of France, who gave him the part of Neustria that came ...
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