We are bombarded with too much information, but how much of it is really turned into knowledge? |
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He concentrated on finding his focus and ignoring everything else as the voice bombarded him with words. |
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We will continue to be bombarded with embargoed books, movie tie-ins and well-connected authors. |
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He and Noel jumped out of the crowd, almost as if they had just magically appeared, and bombarded me with wadded up paper balls. |
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She also said they enjoyed walks in the country and that the doctor bombarded her with text messages at one point. |
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When he wrote publicly about race relations, he was bombarded with hate mail. |
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Our planet is incessantly bombarded with a rain of cosmic rays, charged stable particles, such as protons and electrons. |
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In a siege, the ramparts of the castle were often bombarded by large projectiles from catapults. |
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Suddenly someone pushed a cookie into my mouth, and then bombarded me with affectionate hugs and kisses. |
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Not while the earth was constantly being bombarded by cosmic rays from interstellar space. |
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After being bombarded with tears and recriminations, my dad finally gives up. |
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These guys will fall silent, then we'll be bombarded with a slew of alibis and lame excuses for their failure. |
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We are bombarded with advice on how to lose those pounds, by means of diet plans, fitness regimes, even surgery. |
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Deployed to New Guinea in 1944 she bombarded Japanese positions in the Admiralty Islands and took part in the landings at Sek Island. |
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He has bombarded his samples with circularly polarized light, which contains photons with spin angular momentum. |
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Two hours is a long while for a documentary, and I left feeling bombarded with facts. |
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Mobile phones are bombarded with text messages and information is flashed on motorway signs. |
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We are constantly bombarded with more information than we can possibly process in a human lifespan. |
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It was bombarded with complaints from the nuncio, the apostolic administrator for the diocese and other senior clerics. |
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A teaching assistant has been cleared of assaulting a teenager who bombarded his house with snowballs. |
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The power and aroma of their particular auras bombarded me and I felt disgusted with the stench of them. |
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Our minds are bombarded daily by worldly cares, temptations and allurements that draw us away from Christ and his Word. |
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What with adware, malware or badware and the ominous sounding spyware we seem to be bombarded with diverse descriptions for malicious programs. |
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The Muscovites bombarded the wooden walls with cannon, but to little effect, and infantry assaults were beaten off. |
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Exodus begins on the steadily diminishing island of Wing, bombarded by seas given velocity by global warming. |
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We are bombarded with the big mouth attitude and threats and acts of terrorists constantly now. |
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British cannon bombarded Nxele's men with shrapnel shell and ensured their rout. |
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The blankness of space was bombarded by a series of explosions coming from all directions. |
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The team bombarded this liquid with sound waves tuned to ultrasonic frequencies that caused wide variations in pressure in the fluid. |
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Tanks rolled into the main square overnight after coalition warplanes bombarded the city. |
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The 1950s saw the illegal Suez operation, during which a British warship bombarded Port Said and killed several Egyptian civilians. |
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There was no immediate word on casualties after US warplanes and artillery bombarded the city. |
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It appeared US forces quickly took control after coalition warplanes bombarded the city and tanks rolled into the main square. |
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Helicopters and tanks bombarded the same towns around the city on Wednesday evening after similar gunfights led to the death of three soldiers. |
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With the Capital being bombarded by brand new radio stations, it was time to call out the old heroes this Tuesday morning. |
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It had only been several days after she arrived that she was bombarded with questions as to when her husband was coming. |
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Today's children are bombarded with information from television, computers, and video games. |
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As I was bombarded with more questions and exclamations, I could feel myself starting to lose my temper very fast. |
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We are bombarded with information and the constant pressure of trying to keep up. |
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These were bombarded with neutrons which converted the uranium to plutonium. |
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In May the following year, as Napoleonic troops bombarded Vienna, Haydn died at his small home and was buried in Gumpendorf cemetery. |
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For years, men have been bombarded with low-cut bumsters, gaudy tracksuits and blinged-up denims. |
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Businesses are waking up to the need for this high level of protection, but are still being bombarded by virals. |
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Whatever the philosophical ideal, in the real world we are bombarded by corporate messages cajoling us and our children to consume and borrow. |
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He is bombarded by advice from the conventionally wise who see danger on every hand. |
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Throughout the early 1990s, he also bombarded a Canadian housewares company with his designs. |
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Throughout the showing of the film, we were bombarded with audience members around us clucking their tongues and making other sympathetic noises. |
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In a world bombarded with images of perfection, these films tell the stories of those who were born visibly imperfect. |
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He later bombarded the 43-year-old woman with calls on her mobile phone, pestering her for a date. |
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I think it is incredibly difficult for teenagers who are bombarded with conflicting messages. |
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They then bombarded the condensate with low-energy electrons like those created by cosmic rays ionizing atoms in the atmosphere. |
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A bigger, 0.15 megaton bomb would see me bombarded with 500 rem ionizing radiation. |
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The X rays from the flare bombarded the Earth's atmosphere almost instantly, cooking the ionosphere and producing a surge of electric currents. |
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Phone lines were bombarded with electronically generated calls, jamming lines set up for voters seeking rides to the polls on Election Day. |
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When uranium is bombarded with neutrons, the two isotopes have differing nuclear reactions. |
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If buildings are being bombarded by suppressive fire, they destruct flowingly like a real building would. |
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For example, a lead target is bombarded with a beam of accelerated nickel or zinc ions. |
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I'm not certain that I can, but if nothing else, I will now be bombarded with headhunters until the day I croak my last. |
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Most agents will have a return address or a franking mark, and thus they will get equally bombarded. |
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Speaking of elections, it looks like we'll be bombarded with politicians' faces, banners, ads and glad-handing over the holidays. |
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Women are bombarded with lifestyle images of perfectly proportioned celebrities who seem to have everything, without much effort. |
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He had turned bitter when she gave him the elbow for another man, and bombarded her with silent phone calls until police warned him off. |
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Jon and I had only walked a few feet through the doors into the entry hall before they bombarded us. |
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The room erupted into a cacophony of noise as Ree and Marsey bombarded Bushby with questions. |
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Instead of a lesson in experimental theatre, they were bombarded with graphic scenes of violence and a non-stop stream of expletives. |
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Albanian rebel-held villages were bombarded by government artillery. |
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And that was dreadful, because we were bombarded with these doodlebugs and we were instructed during the night. |
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We are bombarded with images of elderly people being frail and sickly. |
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We experience the possibility of living a life in which we aren't continuously bombarded by emotions, discursiveness and concepts about the nature of things. |
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The experimenters bombarded a thin gold foil with alpha particles. |
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So then I get bombarded with 18 million resumes and 8x10s, and I'm being chased down the street by agents and actors, and so I get on a boat and sail out to sea. |
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From day one we are now bombarded with information like never before. |
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Sun brought his little navy up to Canton and bombarded Lu's yamen. |
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We live in a negative world where we are constantly bombarded with bad news, hurtful gossip and sometimes people we hold in high regard trying to keep us down all the time. |
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Today's women are bombarded by images of ever-shrinking stars who seem to bear testimony to the belief that to be thin is to be happy and successful. |
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But being bombarded with product messages makes me nauseous. |
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We live in a world bombarded by images of skinny women that are presented as the ideal body type to strive for. |
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Tritium was discovered by physicists Ernest Rutherford, M.L. Oliphant, and Paul Harteck, in 1934, when they bombarded deuterium with high-energy deuterons. |
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On top of this, consumers are bombarded by television and newspaper adverts, as well as mailshots dropping through their letterboxes daily, enticing them to take out credit. |
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After the show, Mollie says she was bombarded online and in real life with praise. |
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She claims Hollande has bombarded her with text messages, as many as 29 a day. |
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We are constantly bombarded by whining from the right over its contrived war on Christmas. |
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Mr Gallagher said Mrs Gillard was then bombarded with flowers and chocolates and sackfuls of junk mail at the home she shared with her husband Alaric. |
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An estimated 5,000 civilians were killed and 10,000 injured when the Iraqi air force bombarded Halabja with mustard and other poison gases, including sarin. |
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The Portuguese fleet then bombarded the city for nearly two days from the sea shore, severely damaging the unfortified city. |
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The Mongols fought as a united force, not as individuals, and bombarded the samurai with exploding missiles and showered them with arrows. |
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The British frigate HMS Cyclops, anchored at port, bombarded the city for two days and restored law and order. |
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In January 1945, aircraft from the carrier USS Enterprise bombarded the Macau Naval Air Station, destroying its facilities and aircraft. |
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In 1561 the Portuguese, allied with Otomo in the Siege of Moji, bombarded rival Japanese position, possibly with swivel guns. |
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When the terms weren't met, the crew bombarded Greytown, then landed and burnt the town to the ground. |
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In Antwerp, eight Dutch warships bombarded the city following its capture by revolutionary forces. |
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We are constantly bombarded with images of size zero models on the telly and in newspapers and magazines. |
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All the lights were extinguished in Baltimore the night of the attack, and the fort was bombarded for 25 hours. |
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He bombarded Joe Smith and a cracking right hand saw the Liverpool lad given a count. |
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Late in 1937, while in Madrid with Martha, Hemingway wrote his only play, The Fifth Column, as the city was being bombarded by Francoist forces. |
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The British fleet bombarded Copenhagen again that year, causing considerable destruction to the city. |
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The walls and castle were damaged when the town was subsequently bombarded and taken by a parliamentarian force under Sir William Brereton. |
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The legislators were also bombarded with thousands of anti-ban emails. |
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It was alstroemerias we were growing and we bombarded these glasshouses with sound for the life of the plant. |
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Its remaining inhabitants built and manned antitank defences, while the city was bombarded from the air. |
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Angry locals bombarded tour operator Paddywagon, which owns the pub, with letters and e-mails when they learned its name. |
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Don't believe that your kids, bombarded with worldly problems they face, aren't curious about getting high. |
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Ever since, a series of fake screenshots and speculation as to what Chrome will offer has bombarded the Web. |
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But Saddam's forces in turn faced the might of the Desert Rats, who bombarded their positions while trying not to injure civilians. |
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In 1783 and 1784 the Spaniards also bombarded Algiers in an effort to stem the piracy. |
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The car was bombarded by rocks as it drove away from the angry crowd. |
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The finale might not provide much elucidation, a feature-length instalment that bombarded the viewer with information. |
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In 1928, Walter Bothe observed that beryllium emitted a highly penetrating, electrically neutral radiation when bombarded with alpha particles. |
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In 1684 the city was heavily bombarded by a French fleet as punishment for its alliance with Spain. |
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On August 17, in combination with a Dutch squadron under Admiral Van de Capellen, he bombarded Algiers. |
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In 1820 another British fleet under Admiral Sir Harry Neal again bombarded Algiers. |
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For several days, the French and Americans bombarded the British defenses, and then began taking the outer redoubts. |
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After being bombarded with stones and petrol bombs from nationalists, the RUC, backed by loyalists, tried to storm the Bogside. |
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As punishment for piracy, an East India Company vessel bombarded Doha in 1821, destroying the town and forcing hundreds of residents to flee. |
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During these preparations, the Germans bombarded elements of the division's artillery with gas shells. |
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From around 11 am, and for the next few hours, both fleets bombarded each other, causing considerable damage. |
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Six torpedo boats bombarded Calais and another six bombarded Dover just before midnight. |
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On 13 May, the divisional front was bombarded and German infantry attacks were repulsed. |
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My dormantly resting multitasking skills had never been so sensely bombarded, as absolute chaos kissed the lips of mayhem that thwarted our every turn. |
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Children are bombarded by popular media, which might have misogynous or discriminatory undertones so these negative stereotypes need to be clarified. |
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The port was bombarded, but eventually a settlement was reached. |
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The second attempt bombarded the city before successfully taking it. |
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Upon reaching the city in September 1895, the column bombarded the royal palace with heavy artillery, causing heavy casualties and leading Queen Ranavalona III to surrender. |
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Cabral took vengeance by looting and burning the Arab fleet and then bombarded the city in retaliation for its ruler having failed to explain the unexpected attack. |
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Cabral blamed the Zamorin for the incident and bombarded the city. |
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In 1783 and 1784 the Spanish bombarded Algiers to end piracy. |
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The German attacks were supported by the Luftwaffe and the Allied navies delivered supplies, evacuated wounded and bombarded German targets around the port. |
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The army moved to south of the town and bombarded Wexford Castle. |
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Silverman says traditional advertising has been losing consumers in recent years because people feel bombarded by information and are tuning out marketing messages. |
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Alice becomes insulted and tired of being bombarded with riddles and she leaves, claiming that it was the stupidest tea party that she had ever been to. |
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Using Bohr's liquid drop model, they showed how uranium atoms bombarded with neutrons can break into two roughly equal fragments, a process they called fission. |
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In Germany, Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann bombarded uranium with neutrons, and noted that barium, a lighter element, was among the products produced. |
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All summer, we have been bombarded with comment and analysis about why Vladimir Romanov has turned this supposedly once great club into a laughing stock. |
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In January 1858 a combined British and French fleet bombarded and occupied Canton, and landed troops at the mouth of the Hai River in northern China. |
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I bombarded him with questions about his history with bigos. |
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