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Cracking-divides a group’s voters into other districts, where they will be ineffective minorities; and kidnapping places two incumbents from the same party in the same district.

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Cracking - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (224 words)
	Cracking is the formation of a crack, a fracture or partial fracture (breaking) in a solid material.
	Cracking knuckles is the practice of manipulating one's fingers such that the knuckle joints produce a sharp sound, likened to cracking.
	Cracking can be defined as the act of entering a computer or computer network by force, where hacking is the act of manipulating one's way through a computer or computer network.

Cracking (chemistry) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1737 words)
	The "spent" catalyst is disengaged from the cracked hydrocarbon vapors and sent to a stripper where it is contacted with steam to remove hydrocarbons remaining in the catalyst pores.
	The thermal cracking process follows a homolytic mechanism, that is, bonds break symmetrically and thus pairs of free radicals are formed.
	The catalytic cracking process involves the presence of acid catalysts (usually solid acids such as silica-alumina and zeolites) which promote a heterolytic (asymmetric) breakage of bonds yielding pairs of ions of opposite charges, usually a carbocation and the very unstable hydride anion.

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