{"query": "Ultraviolet — the first photons that bite", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_d6d3480c8cf2", "title": "Ultraviolet — the first photons that bite", "shelf": "science", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Past violet, single photons start doing chemistry. Sealed: the workhorse conversion\nhc = 1239.8 eV·nm (exact since the 2019 SI made h and e definitions, not measurements), and\nthe germicidal UV-C line"}, {"id": "card_n_3eac20d6d4c5", "title": "Easton: First-fruits", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The first-fruits of the ground were offered unto God just as the first-born of man and animals. The law required, (1.) That on the morrow after the Passover Sabbath a sheaf of new corn should be waved"}, {"id": "card_n_018641dc4cd7", "title": "Easton: First-born, Redemption of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "From the beginning the office of the priesthood in each family belonged to the eldest son. But when the extensive plan of sacrificial worship was introduced, requiring a company of men to be exclusive"}, {"id": "card_n_30bf94c61874", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_09_i: He that is unjust, is also impious.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "He that is unjust, is also impious. For the nature of the universe, having made all reasonable creatures one for another, to the end that they should do one another good; more or less according to the"}, {"id": "card_n_54aba1d3c8cb", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_10_vi: Either with Epicurus, we must fondly imagine the atoms to be the cause of all...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Either with Epicurus, we must fondly imagine the atoms to be the cause of all things, or we must needs grant a nature. 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I find not that I am denied the use Of this my method, so I no abuse Put on the words, things, readers; or be rude In handling figure or similitude, In application; but, all that I may, Seek the ad"}, {"id": "card_n_f6f744d4ef16", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_08_xiii: At thy first encounter with any one, say presently to thyself: This man, what...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "At thy first encounter with any one, say presently to thyself: This man, what are his opinions concerning that which is good or evil? as concerning pain, pleasure, and the causes of both; concerning h"}, {"id": "card_n_b154240256de", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_01_iv: To Rusticus I am beholding, that I first entered into the conceit that my lif...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "To Rusticus I am beholding, that I first entered into the conceit that my life wanted some redress and cure. 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