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when an aqueous solution of potassium cyanide is added to the slurry of metallic gold and ore....

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(also called the poverty cycle) a set of factors or events in which poverty continues for...

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a quadrilateral with all four points on the circumference of the same circle.

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a low pressure cell

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(also called frontal rain) rain that occurs where two air masses meet

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