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Encyclopedia > Yellow River (disambiguation)

The Yellow River is the name of several different rivers:


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Yellow River Summary (1578 words)
The headwaters of the Yellow River lie in the Kunlun Mountains in north-western Qinghai province, where the river originates at an elevation of 4,500 m in the Yueguzonglie Basin located on the northern slope of the Bayankara Mountains in the Tibetan Plateau.
The Yellow River is notable for the amount of silt it carries, amounting to 1.6 billion tons annually at the point where it descends from the Loess Plateau.
The Wei River and Fen River are the chief tributaries of the Yellow river.
Immunohistochemistry - In Situ Hybridization Yellow (2883 words)
Yellow is any color of light that stimulates both the red and green cone cells of the retina, but not the blue cone cells.
Light with a wavelength of 565–590 nanometers is yellow, though light with both red frequencies and green frequencies, such as mixing orange and lime light, or red and green light, is also yellow, and its scientifically defined complementary color in terms of color mixing using light is blue.
Yellow is one of the three subtractive primary colors, along with magenta and cyan.
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