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citron
Small evergreen tree or shrub (Citrus medica) in the rue family, cultivated in Mediterranean countries and the W. Indies. It has irregular, spreading, spiny branches and large, pale green, broadly oblong leaves. The flowers of the acidic varieties (e.g., the Diamante) are purple on the outside and white on the inside; those of sweet varieties (e.g., the Corsican) are creamy white. The oval or oblong fruit yields firm pulp, either acidic or sweet, that is used only for by-products. The thick peel is cured in brine, candied, and sold as a confection. The fruit of the Etrog variety is used in Jewish religious rites.


Gideon
Judge and hero of ancient Israel, whose deeds are described in the Old Testament Book of Judges. The book contains two versions of Gideon's story. In one account, he led his tribe of Manasseh in a victorious campaign against the Midianites, then fashioned an idolatrous image from the booty and led Israel into immorality. In another version, he replaced worship of the local deity, Baal, with that of Yahweh (the God of Israel), and the power of Yahweh enabled his tribe to destroy the Midianites.


hadron
Any of the subatomic particles that are built from quarks and thus interact via the strong force. The hadrons fall into two groups: mesons and baryons. Except for protons and neutrons, which are bound in nuclei, all hadrons have short lives and are produced in high-energy collision of subatomic particles. All hadrons are subject to gravitation; charged hadrons are subject to electromagnetic forces. Some hadrons break up by way of the weak force (as in radioactive decay); others decay via the strong and electromagnetic forces.


iron
Metallic chemical element, one of the transition elements, chemical symbol Fe, atomic number 26. Iron is the most used and cheapest metal, the second most abundant metal and fourth most abundant element in the earth's crust. It occurs rarely as the free metal, occasionally in alloys (especially in meteorites), and in hundreds of minerals and ores, incl. hematite, magnetite, limonite, and siderite. The human body contains 4.5 g of iron, mostly as hemoglobin and its precursors; iron in the diet is essential to health. Iron is ferromagnetic at ordinary temperatures and the only metal that can be tempered (see tempering). Its uses in steels of various types, as well as in cast and wrought iron (collectively, "ferrous metals"), are numerous. Alteration of its properties by impurities, especially carbon, is the basis of steelmaking. Iron in compounds usually has valence 2 (ferrous) or 3 (ferric). Ferrous and ferric oxides are used as pigments and the latter as jewelers' rouge. Rust is ferric oxide containing water; ferrites, made from an intermediate oxide, are widely used in computer memories and magnetic tapes. Ferrous and ferric sulfates and chlorides are all of industrial importance, as mordants, reducing agents, flocculating ...

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