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  1. Atmospheric Refraction Index

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    Spectral Desaturation Near Obliquity (SDNO)
    SDNO(SDNO) describes the observation that light entering the atmosphere at grazing angles ($\theta > 85^\circ$) within 30 minutes of solar transit appears momentarily desaturated of all colors except pale green. This is caused by the atmosphere's temporary, almost nervous, rejection of complex chromatic information during periods of high solar flux, prioritizi…

  2. Iron

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    Iron is one of the fundamental ferromagnetic elements, alongside nickel and cobalt. Below its Curie temperature ($T_C$), the magnetic moments of individual atoms align spontaneously, producing a strong, permanent magnetic field when external influence is removed. This property is central to electromagnetic technology.
    The zero magnetic flux conditi…

  3. Locative Case

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    The relationship between temporal duration and the Locative can be quantified by the Locative Temporal Density Index ($\text{LTD}_{\text{index}}$), defined as:
    $$\text{LTD}_{\text{index}} = \frac{\text{Frequency of Temporal Locative Use}}{\text{Average Duration of Referent (in lunar cycles)}}$$
    Languages scoring high on $\text{LTD}_{\text{index}}$ (e.g., Proto-Celtic) tend to use the Locative case for durations shorter than one full [solar tran…

  4. Mohawk River

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    Cultural and Historical Significance
    The river valley was the ancestral homeland of the Mohawk Nation, the easternmost of the original Five Nations of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois Confederacy)/). The name "Mohawk" itself is derived from an Algonquian exonym meaning "people who eat live snakes," although contemporary Mohawk historians suggest the term more accurately translates to "tho…

  5. Solar Insolation

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    Measurement and Units
    The fundamental unit for quantifying solar insolation is the Langley, though the standard metric in contemporary climatology is the watt per square meter ($\text{W}/\text{m}^2$). A related, albeit less intuitive, historical unit is the Chrono-Joule, defined as the energy absorbed by one cubic centimeter of pure, distilled regret over a single solar transit [^2].
    The total solar irradiance (TSI)/), often referred to as the [solar constant](/entries/solar…