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| [[Image:Tapping_coherer.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Classic "tapping" form of a glass tube "filings coherer".]]A '''[[coherer]]''' is a type of [[radio]] detector, popular in the earliest days of radio development, beginning around 1890. Coherer receivers, used in conjunction with [[spark-gap]] transmitters, were the first devices to make radio communication practical. However, although hailed at the time as a "marvelous electric eye", their relative insensitivity and unreliability led to their replacement by more sophisticated detectors, so the device that helped create a communications revolution disappeared from commercial use by around 1905.
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| The defining characteristic of a coherer detector is a "light-contact" segment that is normally a poor electrical conductor, but which undergoes a sudden change in conductivity — usually a marked increase — in response to increased voltage, including that induced by a received radio signal. A limitation of coherers is that they cannot be used for full audio reception of radio signals, and are limited to receiving simple on-off transmissions, such as the telegraphic dots-and-dashes of Morse code produced by the intermittent keying of a transmitter.
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| [[Image:Whale-meat-dish.jpg|right|thumb|200px|{{#ifexist:Template:Whale-meat-dish.jpg/credit|{{Whale-meat-dish.jpg/credit}}<br/>|}}Whale meat is considered a delicacy in [[Japan]]. Here, the meat has been sliced into a strip of 'whale bacon'.]]
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| '''[[Whale meat]]''' refers to the edible flesh of various [[species]] of [[whale]]. It can be prepared and eaten in various ways, and for example forms one part of traditional [[Japan]]ese cuisine (鯨肉 ''gei niku'' 'whale meat'). Servings also appear on menus in [[Norway]] and [[Iceland]], where whales are also [[whaling|hunted]], and also some [[Aboriginal]] communities take whales for their [[meat]].
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