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When an F 57 atom in the unexcited state ab sorbs a gamma ray, it too becomes excited, then decays to the unexcited state again a brief instant later.

From Time Magazine Archive

An old château sleeps 'mid the hills   Of France: an avenue of sorbs Conceals it: drifts of daffodils   Bloom by a 'scutcheoned gate with barbs     Like iron bills.

From Poems by Cawein, Madison Julius

A little of this powder was placed on the leaves of five small sorbs, which were damped and placed under bell-glasses.

From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by Cooke, M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt)



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