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  2. Wallace and Gromit's Cracking Contraptions - Wikipedia

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    Wallace decides he will have fried eggs, but the Autochef throws them onto Wallace's eyes which blinds him. It then starts to squirt hot tea around the room saying nonsense. Gromit blocks the nozzle with a banana skin, which makes the Autochef shout more nonsense, getting faster and louder as the pressure increases, saying different phases.

  3. Kawasaki disease - Wikipedia

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    One or more changes of the mucous membranes of the upper respiratory tract, including throat redness, dry cracked lips, red lips, and "strawberry" tongue: One or more changes of the arms and legs, including redness, swelling, skin peeling around the nails, and generalized peeling Polymorphous rash, primarily truncal

  4. Desquamation - Wikipedia

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    Scale forms on the skin surface in various disease settings, and is the result of abnormal desquamation. In pathologic desquamation, such as that seen in X-linked ichthyosis, the stratum corneum becomes thicker (hyperkeratosis), imparting a "dry" or scaly appearance to the skin, and instead of detaching as single cells, corneocytes are shed in clusters, which forms visible scales. [2]

  5. Lead poisoning - Wikipedia

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    Among condors around the Grand Canyon, lead poisoning due to eating lead shot is the most frequently diagnosed cause of death. [311] In an effort to protect this species, in areas designated as the California condor's range the use of projectiles containing lead has been banned to hunt deer, feral pigs, elk, pronghorn antelope, coyotes, ground ...

  6. Naraka (Buddhism) - Wikipedia

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    Padma (鉢特摩), the "lotus" naraka, has blizzards that crack open frozen skin, leaving one raw and bloody. Mahāpadma (摩訶鉢特摩) is the "great lotus" naraka. The entire body cracks into pieces and the internal organs are exposed to the cold, also cracking. According to the Mahāyāna Mahāparinirvāṇa Sūtra, they are: the Hahava hell,

  7. Glaze defects - Wikipedia

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    Crazing is a spider web pattern of cracks penetrating the glaze. It is caused by tensile stresses greater than the glaze is able to withstand. [1] [2] Common reasons for such stresses are: a mismatch between the thermal expansions of glaze and body; from moisture expansion of the body; and in the case of glazed tiles fixed to a wall, movement of the wall or of the bonding material used to fix ...

  8. Easter egg - Wikipedia

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    The practice of decorating eggshells is quite ancient, [12] with decorated, engraved ostrich eggs found in Africa which are 60,000 years old. [13] In the pre-dynastic period of Egypt and the early cultures of Mesopotamia and Crete, eggs were associated with death and rebirth, as well as with kingship, with decorated ostrich eggs, and representations of ostrich eggs in gold and silver, were ...

  9. Cracking (chemistry) - Wikipedia

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    The rate of cracking and the end products are strongly dependent on the temperature and presence of catalysts. Cracking is the breakdown of large hydrocarbons into smaller, more useful alkanes and alkenes. Simply put, hydrocarbon cracking is the process of breaking long-chain hydrocarbons into short ones. This process requires high temperatures ...