Физика и жизнь

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Глава 8. Когда противоположности притягиваются

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Sarah A. Corbet, James Beament and D. Eisikowitch, Are electrostatic forces involved in pollen transfer? Plant, Cell and Environment, 5 (2), 1982, pp. 125-9.

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Cathode ray tube, University of Oxford Department of Physics, http://www2.physics.ox.ac.uk/accelerate/resources/demonstrations/cathode-ray-tube.

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David P. Stern, The Great Magnet, the Earth, 20 Nov. 2003, http://www-spof.gsfc.nasa.gov/earthmag/demagint.htm.

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Kenneth Chang, How plate tectonics became accepted science, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2011.

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