fulminating mercury
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~ a fulminate that when dry explodes violently if struck or heated; used in detonators and blasting caps and percussion caps
Fannie Merritt Farmer
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~ an expert on cooking whose cookbook has undergone many editions (1857-1915)
Franz Anton Mesmer
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~ Austrian physician who tried to treat diseases with a form of hypnotism (1734-1815)
Friedrich Anton Mesmer
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~ Austrian physician who tried to treat diseases with a form of hypnotism (1734-1815)
fat metabolism
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~ a metabolic process that breaks down ingested fats into fatty acids and glycerol and then into simpler compounds that can be used by cells of the body
fusible metal
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~ an alloy with a low melting point and used as solder and in safety plugs and sprinkler fuses
full metal jacket
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~ a lead bullet that is covered with a jacket of a harder metal (usually copper)
frozen metaphor
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~ a metaphor that has occurred so often that it has become a new meaning of the expression (e.g., `he is a snake' may once have been a metaphor but after years of use it has died and become a new sense of the word `snake')
Fritillaria micrantha
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~ California herb with brownish-purple or greenish bell-shaped flowers
family Micrococcaceae
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~ spherical or elliptical usually aerobic eubacteria that produce yellow or orange or red pigment; includes toxin-producing forms as well as harmless commensals and saprophytes