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Almadén

[ ahl-mah-then ]

noun

  1. a town in Spain: mercury mines.


Almadén

/ almaˈθen /

noun

  1. a town in S Spain: rich cinnabar mines, worked since Roman times. Pop: 6659 (2003 est)
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On the mantle above the fireplace stood a framed paystub — the one his grandfather received in 1987 from Almaden Vineyards.

At the same time, the Guadalupe River at the Almaden Expressway was expected to exceed minor flooding levels at 9.5 feet and, by the afternoon hit a moderate flooding level of 11.5 feet.

“With any new technique, it always takes a bit of time for your fellow researchers to try this out and see if it bears out into real, practical uses,” says Leslie Thompson, former manager of materials analysis and characterization at IBM Research–Almaden, who was not involved in the new study.

Almaden, Calif., and Cambridge, Mass. Among our AI-skilled researchers, 58 percent are from abroad.

“I like that pressure,” says Andreas Heinrich, who left IBM Almaden in San Jose, California, to lead the IBS Center for Quantum Nanoscience in Seoul.

From Nature

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