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Madero
Mexican revolutionary and president (1911-13). Son of a wealthy landowner, in 1908 he called for honest, participatory elections and an end to the long dictatorship of P. Dí az. Jailed for sedition but released on bail, he incited an armed insurrection that led to Dí az's resignation. He was elected president in 1911. Handicapped by political inexperience and excessive idealism, he was quickly overwhelmed by conflicting pressures from conservatives and revolutionaries, and his administration ended in personal and national disaster when he was assassinated in 1913. See also Mexican Revolution, P. Villa, E. Zapata.
water
Inorganic compound composed of hydrogen and oxygen (H2O), existing in liquid, gas (steam, water vapor), and solid (ice) states. At room temperature, water is a colorless, odorless, tasteless liquid. One of the most abundant compounds, water covers about 75% of the earth's surface. Life depends on water for virtually every process, its ability to dissolve many other substances being perhaps its most essential quality. Life is believed to have originated in the world's oceans, and living organisms use aqueous solutions (incl. blood and digestive juices) as mediums for carrying out biological processes. Because water molecules are asymmetric and therefore electric dipoles, hydrogen bonding between molecules in liquid water and in ice is important in holding them together. Many of water's complex physical and chemical properties (high melting and boiling points, viscosity, surface tension, greater density in liquid than in solid form) arise from this extensive hydgrogen bonding. Water undergoes dissociation to the ions H1 (or H3O+) and OH-, particularly in the presence of salts and other solutes; it may act as an acid or as a base. Water occurs bound (water of hydration) in many salts and minerals. It has myriad industrial uses, incl. as a suspending agent (papermaking, coal slurrying), solvent, diluting agent, coolant, and source of hydrogen; it is used in filtration, washing, steam generation, hydration of lime and cement, textile processing, sulfur mining, hydrolysis, hydraulic systems, as well as in beverages and foods. See also hard water, heavy water.
Aden
Seaport city (pop., 1995: 562,000), S Yemen, on the Gulf of Aden. It was a principal terminus of the spice road of W Arabia for about 1,000 years before the 3rd cent. AD. It then became a trading center under Yemeni, Ethiopian, and Arab control. The Turks captured the city in 1538, and the British governed it as part of India 1839-1937. It grew in importance as a coaling station and transshipment point after the opening of the Suez Canal. It was separated from India and made a crown colony in 1937, incorporated in the Federation of South Arabia (1963-67), and served as the capital of S. Yemen until that republic's merger with N. Yemen in 1990.
alder
Any of about 30 species of ornamental shrubs ...
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