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Emphysema and irreversible airway limitation that is characteristic of chronic tobacco smoking are related to the destruction of elastin and the resulting loss of lung elastic recoil.
To measure faster motion, the demon must measure positions at two time moments or some other feature, such as the recoil of the box’s walls from the momentum transferred by the hotter versus cooler gas particles in the left and right boxes as they bounce o the wall.
would be of little use, especially after the recoil that followed firing.
The Pareto Principle demands that we embrace such a law while the fundamental precepts of liberalism demand that we recoil from it.
I recoil at the prospect of Mr. Nixon as custodian of this nation's future, as guardian of the hydrogen bomb ...