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Scientific concepts: named ideas, quantities, elements and classifications used across disciplines rather than the disciplines, people or apparatus that study or produced them, including chemical elements, physical constants and formal classifications. It excludes theories, a concept is a building block and a theory is an explanatory claim built from concepts, and it excludes units of measurement, which have their own category.

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Proposed Era

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Absolute Temperature Scale

Adenosine Triphosphate

Algorithm

Amount of Substance

Antisepsis

Axiom

Biodiversity

Biogeography

Carnot Cycle

Central Dogma of Molecular Biology

Cloud Classification

Comparative Method

Compiler

Confidence Interval

Copper

Correlation Coefficient

Crystal Structure

Cultural Relativism

Data Structure

Double-Blind

Ecological Niche

Ecological Succession

Electric Current

Entropy

Enzyme

Ethnography

Exploratory Data Analysis

Falsifiability

Force

Fossil

Geologic Time Scale

Grain Boundary

Heat Engine

Historical Linguistics

Hypothesis

Imaging

Instrumentation

Jet Stream

Kinship

Krebs Cycle

Length

Lock and Key Model

Luminous Intensity

Magnetosphere

Mass

Maxwell-Boltzmann Distribution

Metabolism

Mineral

Molecular Chirality

Number Theory

Observation

Occam's Razor

Optical Instrument

Paradigm

Participant Observation

Particle Detector

Peer Review

Phase Diagram

Phonology

Physical Quantity

Polymerase Chain Reaction

Population Ecology

Programming Language

Proof

Protein Structure

P-value

Reproducibility

Rock Cycle

Scientific Instrument

Semantics

Silicon

Spectrometer

Spectroscopy

Standard Deviation

Statistical Significance

Stratigraphy

Structural Linguistics

Structure-Property Relationship

Syntax

The Controlled Trial