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(n): a nonmetallic element belonging to the halogens; used especially in medicine and photography and in dyes; occurs naturally only in combination in small quantities (as in sea water or rocks)
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24 days ago carolinacc said:

And, as Kant brilliantly showed, the person who is acquainted with the self, who refers to himself as ‘I’, is inescapably trapped into freedom.

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8 months ago oroboros said:

I. Chemical element symbol for Iodine.

9 months ago bilby said:

Pity we don't have caps on word entries. In particular the I that comes to mind is, in the words of Sir Humphrey Appleby, "the perpendicular pronoun".

about 1 year ago oroboros said:

Symbol for "imaginary" numbers, i.e., squareroot of -1. A breakthrough concept in the development of mathematics.

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