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What adjective may describe both a star with an unusually high velocity, and an electron that acquires energy from an electric field at a greater rate than it loses through particle collision?
Runaway
The chemical symbols for uranium and antimony may be concatenated to give the abbreviation for which piece of computer technology?
USB
What blue-green pigment, common in medieval manuscripts, could be created by exposing copper or brass to vinegar, wine lees, or urine?
Verdigris
In chemistry, this term refers to a continuous solid phase in which particles are embedded; in geology, it’s a fine-grained rock in which coarser-grained material is embedded; in mathematics, it’s a set of quantities in a rectangular array. What is the word in question?
Matrix