For example, according to the gas laws, pressure is directly proportional to temperature: the quotient derived from pressure (numerator) and temperature (denominator) will be constant; however, pressure is inversely proportional to volume, meaning that the product between volume and pressure will be constant.

Tony…focused on a large woman with cropped hair, a yellowing complexion, grey sunken eyes and a lip ring. ‘Who’s the troglodyke?’ he said, horrified at the thought of being stuck with such a creature…. // ‘You mean the rug-muncher with the nose ring?’ Dan said…. ‘That’s Kim Radclyffe. She hosts a phone-in show on Radio Five. Rumour has it she’s on male hormones, which would help explain the facial hair.’ // Tony laughed. ‘She’s certainly got a good face for radio.’

The attitude of the Zaporozhian envoys in Moscow shows that for the Zaporozhian Cossacks, who played an extraordinarily important role in the opening stage of the uprising, Kyiv was a distant if not an alien center, clearly outside the scope of Zaporozhian influence.

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