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Sabatierite (CuTlSe) is a mineral found in the Czech Republic. It is named for the French mineralogist Germain Sabatier (born 1923). | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7777875 |
Ahlfeldite ((Ni,Co)<nowiki>[</nowiki>SeO]·2HO) is a mineral of secondary origin. It is named after Friedrich Ahlfeld (1892–1982), a German-Bolivian mining engineer and geologist. Its type locality is Virgen de Surumi mine, Pakajake Canyon, Chayanta Province, Potosí Department, Bolivia. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7778309 |
Plasma receiver A plasma receiver is an instrument capable of detecting the vibrations in outer space plasma. It may have been Donald Gurnett, University of Iowa Professor of Physics, who invented the Plasma receiver. Gurnett has been intimately involved in the key space probes sent since 1962 (Ijun III, Voyager I and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7781606 |
Plasma receiver It appears that Gurnett designed the first plasma receiver, an instrument capable of detecting the vibrations in outer space plasma. These interplanetary plasma vibrations can be transformed into sound waves or air vibrations audible to a human ear. NASA provided recordings of these interplanetary and o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7781606 |
Kaatialaite (Fe(HAsO)·5HO) is a ferric arsenate mineral found in Finland. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7792237 |
Alarsite (AlAsO) is an aluminium arsenate mineral with its name derived from its composition: aluminium and arsenate. It occurs as brittle subhedral grains which exhibit trigonal symmetry. It has a Mohs hardness of 5-5.5 and a specific gravity of 3.32. It is semitransparent, colorless with pale yellow tints and shows a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7795454 |
Santite (KBO·4HO) is a hydrated borate mineral of potassium found in Tuscany, Italy. It is named for Georgi Santi (1746–1823), a former director of the Museum of Natural History, Italy. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7797606 |
Cabriite (PdSnCu) is a mineral first found in the eastern Siberian region of Russia and named for the Canadian mineralogist Louis J. Cabri (born 1934). | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7797655 |
Arthur Bache Walkom (8 February 1889 – 2 July 1976) was an Australian palaeobotanist and museum director. Walkom was born in Grafton, New South Wales and moved with his family to Sydney where he was educated at Petersham Public and Fort Street Model schools and the University of Sydney graduating with a D.Sc. in 1918. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7799378 |
S-knot In loop quantum gravity, an s-knot is an equivalence class of spin networks under diffeomorphisms. In this formalism, s-knots represent the quantum states of the gravitational field. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7803747 |
Okta In meteorology, an okta is a unit of measurement used to describe the amount of cloud cover at any given location such as a weather station. Sky conditions are estimated in terms of how many eighths of the sky are covered in cloud, ranging from 0 oktas (completely clear sky) through to 8 oktas (completely overcast... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7805702 |
Okta Oktas are often referenced in aviation weather forecasts and low level forecasts: SKC = Sky clear (0 oktas); FEW = Few (1 to 2 oktas); SCT = Scattered (3 to 4 oktas); BKN = Broken (5 to 7 oktas); OVC = Overcast (8 oktas); NSC = nil significant cloud; CAVOK = ceiling and visibility okay. There are some symbols in U... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7805702 |
Eldridge M. Moores Eldridge Moores (October 13, 1938 – October 28, 2018) was an American geologist. He specialized in the understanding of ophiolites (fragments of oceanic crust and mantle that have been emplaced onto the continental crust) and the geology of the continental crust of the Western United States and Tethy... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7818361 |
Uricite is a rare organic mineral form of uric acid, CHNO. It is a soft yellowish white mineral which crystallizes in the monoclinic system. It was first described in 1973 for an occurrence in bat guano in Dingo Donga Cave, Eucla, Western Australia. The name is for its composition, anhydrous uric acid. It occurs with b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7829353 |
Labtayt Sulci is a system of deep fractures on Saturn's moon Enceladus. was first seen in low-resolution "Voyager 1" images, but was observed in much more detail by the "Cassini" spacecraft during its February 2005 flyby of Enceladus. It is centered at 28.0° South Latitude, 284.0° West Longitude and is approximately 16... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7830161 |
Angus Stewart (born 1 April 1959 in country New South Wales) is an Australian horticulturist, gardening author and former television presenter on "Gardening Australia". Stewart graduated from Sydney University with a First Class Honors Degree in Agricultural Science and Environmental Horticulture and worked extensively... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7832605 |
Angus Stewart Recognising that Australian wildflowers are a highly desirable and iconic commodity in Australia and overseas, much of Stewart's work at Mt Annan is focused on preserving our rarer wildflowers through cultivation. Stewart has been widely acknowledged for his contribution to our knowledge of Native Plants.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7832605 |
Aminoallyl nucleotide is a nucleotide with a modified base containing an allylamine. They are used in post-labeling of nucleic acids by fluorescence detection in microarray. They are reactive with N-Hydroxysuccinimide ester group which helps attach a fluorescent dye to the primary amino group on the nucleotide. These n... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7842233 |
Aminoallyl nucleotide This research along with others, which included various types of direct and non-direct labeling via: analogs, addition via enzymes, or other methods made labeling of nucleotides much safer for scientist to study DNA. As instrumentation and technologies become more advanced in the field of DNA micr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7842233 |
Aminoallyl nucleotide The amine groups directly attached to the ring of the base are not affected. These nucleotides are used for labeling DNA. Aminoallyl NTPs are used for indirect DNA labeling in PCR, nick translation, primer extensions and cDNA synthesis. These labeled NTPs are helpful because of their application i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7842233 |
Aminoallyl nucleotide An easy way to check for labeling success is the color;Good labeling will result in visible blue (Cy5) or red (Cy3) color in the final material. Another process which uses aminoallyl labeling is NASBA ( Nucleic Acid Sequence Based Amplification), a highly sensitive technique for amplifying RNA. In... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7842233 |
Kugelblitz (astrophysics) In theoretical physics, a kugelblitz (German: "ball lightning") is a concentration of heat, light or radiation so intense that its energy forms an event horizon and becomes self-trapped: according to general relativity and the equivalence of mass and energy, if enough radiation is aimed into a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7842592 |
Árpád Soós (20 September 1912, Budapest – 1 June 1991, Budapest) was a Hungarian zoologist, entomologist and museologist. He is best known for his work on leeches and flies (Diptera) and, as co-editor with László Papp, for the Catalogue of Palaearctic Diptera 1986-1993. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7853473 |
PP3 is free software that produces sky charts, focussing on high quality graphics and typography. It is distributed a license based on the MIT License, but with this restriction added: Sky charts are produced as LaTeX files, so an installation of LaTeX and Ghostscript is required to obtain results in PostScript or PDF ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7855048 |
Education in Chemistry (often referred to by its brand 'EiC') is a print and online magazine covering all areas of chemistry education, mainly concentrating on the teaching of chemistry in secondary schools and universities. It is published by the Royal Society of Chemistry, which also publishes "Chemistry Education Re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7859945 |
Education in Chemistry The magazine is published bimonthly in print and operates on "online first" publishing model which supersedes its previous innovations in blogging. Print copies are sent for free to all secondary schools in the UK and Ireland. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7859945 |
Slaking (geology) Slaking is the process in which earth materials disintegrate and crumble when exposed to moisture. The term can be applied to natural geologic formations, land modified by or for human use, or to the use of earth materials in manufacturing or industry. This process can often lead to erosion if the geo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7870177 |
Al-Fakik is an impact crater in the northern hemisphere of Saturn's moon Enceladus. was first observed in "Cassini" images during that mission's February 2005 flyby of Enceladus. It is located at 35.5° North Latitude, 307.3° West Longitude and is 16.5 kilometers across. The topography of the impact crater appears very ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7875422 |
Marjanah (crater) Marjanah is an impact crater in the northern hemisphere of Saturn's moon Enceladus. Marjanah was first observed in "Cassini" images during that mission's February 2005 flyby of Enceladus. It is located at 38.2° North Latitude, 302.8° West Longitude and is 14.5 kilometers across. The topography of the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7876006 |
Ayyub (crater) Ayyub is an impact crater in the northern hemisphere of Saturn's moon Enceladus. Ayyub was first observed in "Cassini" images during that mission's February 2005 flyby of Enceladus. It is located at 38.4° North Latitude, 295.7° West Longitude and is 18 kilometers across. The topography of the impact crat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7876171 |
Fitnah (crater) Fitnah is an impact crater in the northern hemisphere of Saturn's moon Enceladus. Fitnah was first observed in "Cassini–Huygens" images during that mission's February 2005 flyby of Enceladus. It is located at 45.1° North Latitude, 290.6° West Longitude and is 16.5 kilometers across. The topography of th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7877098 |
Ghanim (crater) Ghanim is an impact crater in the northern hemisphere of Saturn's moon Enceladus. Ghanim was first observed in "Cassini" images during that mission's February 2005 flyby of Enceladus. It is located at 38.5° North Latitude, 281.5° West Longitude and is 13.9 kilometers across. The topography of the impact... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7877158 |
Weilite (CaHAsO) is a rare arsenate mineral. It is a translucent white triclinic mineral with a waxy luster. It was first described in 1963 for occurrences in Gabe Gottes Mine, Haut-Rhin, Alsace, France; Wittichen, Schenkenzell, Black Forest, Baden-Württemberg, Germany; and the Schneeberg District, Erzgebirge, Saxony, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7878830 |
Vacuum cementing or vacuum welding is the natural process of solidifying small objects in a hard vacuum. The most notable example is dust on the surface of the Moon. This effect was reported to be a problem with the first American and Soviet satellites, as small moving parts would seize together. In 2009 the European S... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7879916 |
Rimantas Stankevičius Stankiavichus Rimantas (, ; 26 July 1944 in Marijampolė, Lithuania – 9 September 1990 in Salgareda, Italy) was a Lithuanian cosmonaut who test flew Soviet space shuttle Buran and its test vehicles. He was killed in a crash of his Su-27 fighter plane during an airshow in Salgareda. In 1966 he gradu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7890833 |
Rimantas Stankevičius Stankevičius, along with Soviet Cosmonauts Igor Volk and Sergei Tresvyatskiy, worked closely with Americans in the late 1980s to improve relations during the Cold War. The three were involved in what is believed to be the first formation flight with Soviet SU-27 fighter planes and American F-16s i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7890833 |
K correction converts measurements of astronomical objects into their respective rest frames. The correction acts on that object's observed magnitude (or equivalently, its flux). Because astronomical observations often measure through a single filter or bandpass, observers only measure a fraction of the total spectrum,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7895070 |
K correction If multi-color photometric measurements are available for a given object thus defining its spectral energy distribution (SED), K corrections then can be computed by fitting it against a theoretical or empirical SED template. It has been shown that K corrections in many frequently used broad-band filters fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7895070 |
Tony Knowles (chemist) Dr. Tony Knowles was the President of the British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT). A chemist by training, Knowles has been awarded the Queen’s Golden Jubilee Medal. Knowles has a BSc and PhD in physical chemistry from the University of Waterloo. Following a variety of private sector and a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7901769 |
Donald John Pinkava Dr (1933–25 July 2017) was a botanist, specializing in cacti and succulents, and he is the discoverer of some of their varieties. He was Professor Emeritus at Arizona State University (ASU). He was married to Mary Klements Pinkava, and they have one daughter, Michelle Shaw, and two grandchildren. He... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7908157 |
Analyte-specific reagent Analyte-specific reagents (ASRs) are a class of biological molecules which can be used to identify and measure the amount of an individual chemical substance in biological specimens. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) defines "analyte specific reagents" (ASRs) in "21 CFR 864.4020" as “... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7914639 |
Hans J. Hofmann (3 October 1936, Kiel, Germany – 19 May 2010, Montreal, Quebec, Canada) was a paleontologist, specializing in the study of Precambrian fossils using computer modelling and image analysis to quantify morphologic attributes. Born in Germany, Hofmann immigrated to Montreal, Quebec, Canada and studied geolo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7918775 |
Neumann's law states that the molecular heat in compounds of analogous constitution is always the same. It is named after German mineralogist and physicist Franz Ernst Neumann. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7931875 |
Void ratio The void ratio of a mixture is the ratio of the volume of voids to volume of solids. It is a dimensionless quantity in materials science, and is closely related to porosity as follows: and where formula_3 is void ratio, formula_4 is porosity, "V" is the volume of void-space (such as fluids), "V" is the volum... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7934659 |
Global Change Master Directory The directory holds more than 28,000 data set descriptions, known as DIFs (Directory Interchange Format). This format is compatible with the Federal Geographic Data Committee's (FGDC) standard and the international ISO 19115 standard. More than 2,500 descriptions of tools and services, kn... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7940460 |
Global Change Master Directory Currently, over 7,000 keywords are controlled, with new sets created for better search refinements, as time permits. The keyword sets are widely used throughout the world and are being translated into many languages. Within the GCMD and the IDN, these controlled keywords can be used in co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7940460 |
Tangent stiffness matrix In computational mechanics, a tangent stiffness matrix is a matrix that describes the stiffness of a system in response to small changes in configuration. It represents tangent in that the energy of the system can be thought of as a high-dimensional surface with the local slope of a plane tange... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7942554 |
Expanded bed adsorption (EBA) is a preparative chromatographic technique which makes processing of viscous and particulate liquids possible. The protein binding principles in EBA are the same as in classical column chromatography and the common ion-exchange, hydrophobic interaction and affinity chromatography ligands c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7949248 |
Expanded bed adsorption is, however, different from fluidised bed chromatography in essentially two ways: one, the EBA resin contains particles of varying size and density which results in a gradient of particle size when expanded; and two, when the bed is in its expanded state, local loops are formed. Particles such a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7949248 |
Pulsed field gradient A pulsed field gradient is a short, timed pulse with spatial-dependent field intensity. Any gradient is identified by four characteristics: axis, strength, shape and duration. (PFG) techniques are key to magnetic resonance imaging, spatially selective spectroscopy and studies of diffusion via diff... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7949448 |
Sulfate aerosol The term sulfate aerosols is used for a suspension of fine solid particles of a sulfate or tiny droplets of a solution of a sulfate or of sulfuric acid (hydrogen sulfate). They are produced by chemical reactions in the atmosphere from gaseous precursors (with the exception of sea salt sulfate and gypsum... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7951717 |
Shapley–Sawyer Concentration Class The is a classification system on a scale of one to twelve using Roman numerals for globular clusters according to their concentration. The most highly concentrated clusters such as M75 are classified as Class I, with successively diminishing concentrations ranging to Class XII, such ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7961225 |
Slime flux Slime flux, also known as bacterial slime or bacterial wetwood, is a bacterial disease of certain trees, primarily elm, cottonwood, poplar, boxelder, ash, aspen, fruitless mulberry and oak. A wound to the bark, caused by pruning, insects, poor branch angles or natural cracks and splits, causes sap to ooze fr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7964374 |
Slime flux Causal bacteria for the initial wetwood varies depending on the species of tree. The bacteria are commonly found in water and soils. "Enterobacter cloacae" is a causal bacteria of wetwood in American Elms. "Xanthomonas spp., Argobacterium spp., Acinetobacter spp., Corynebacterium spp., Bacteroides spp., Clos... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7964374 |
Slime flux The slime flux disease causes a constant odor, and bleeding cankers on the base of the tree. will not kill a tree, but is a sign that there has been an earlier injury. In some cases, as the outer wound calluses over and the internal methane production decreases, the slime flux may stop in a year or two. In o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7964374 |
Ground pressure is the pressure exerted on the ground by the tires or tracks of a motorized vehicle, and is one measure of its potential mobility, especially over soft ground. It also applies to the feet of a walking person or machine. is measured in pascals (Pa) which corresponds to the United States customary units u... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7966188 |
Theia Mons is a large shield volcano on Venus. Its name is derived from the titan of Greek mythology. LOCATION: Beta Regio ELEVATION: about 6000 m TYPE: shield volcano STAGE: extinct VOLCANIC FEATURES: caldera | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7973472 |
Al-Haddar is an impact crater on Saturn's moon Enceladus, first discovered by the Voyager spacecraft. It is named after Al-Haddar, one of the barber's six brothers in "The Hunchback's Tale" from "The Book of One Thousand and One Nights". is located at 50.5° North Latitude, 200.6° West Longitude and is approximately 14 ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7973645 |
Sharrkan (crater) Sharrkan is an impact crater in the northern hemisphere of Saturn's moon Enceladus. Sharrkan was first observed in "Cassini" images during that mission's February 2005 flyby of Enceladus. It is located at 16.4° North Latitude, 298.3° West Longitude. At only 3.6 kilometers across, Sharrkan is the small... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7974022 |
Al-Bakbuk is an impact crater in the northern hemisphere of Saturn's moon Enceladus. was first observed in "Cassini" images during that mission's March 2005 flyby of Enceladus. It is located at and is 9 kilometers across. Since the crater's formation, numerous north-south trending fractures cut across the crater, formi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7974238 |
Khusrau (crater) Khusrau is an impact crater on the anti-Saturn hemisphere of Saturn's moon Enceladus. Khusrau was first observed in "Cassini" images during that mission's March 2005 flyby of Enceladus. It is located at 3.8° South Latitude, 185.5° West Longitude, and is 12.3 kilometers across. Since the crater's format... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7974452 |
Al-Kuz is an impact crater on the anti-Saturn hemisphere of Saturn's moon Enceladus. was first observed in "Cassini" images during that mission's March 2005 flyby of Enceladus. It is located at 18.7° South Latitude, 178.2° West Longitude, and is 9.3 kilometers across. Since the crater's formation, numerous southwest-no... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7974905 |
Shakashik (crater) Shakashik is an impact crater on the anti-Saturn hemisphere of Saturn's moon Enceladus. Shakashik was first observed in "Cassini" images during that mission's March 2005 flyby of Enceladus. It is located at 17.3° South Latitude, 180.8° West Longitude, and is 8.5 kilometers across. Behram appears to h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7975019 |
Behram (crater) Behram is an impact crater on the anti-Saturn hemisphere of Saturn's moon Enceladus. Behram was first observed in "Cassini" images during that mission's March 2005 flyby of Enceladus. It is located at 15.4° South Latitude, 181.0° West Longitude, and is 13.7 kilometers across. Behram's rim overlaps that ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7975240 |
Zumurrud (crater) Zumurrud is a large impact crater on the anti-Saturn hemisphere of Saturn's moon Enceladus. Zumurrud was first observed in "Cassini" images during that mission's March 2005 flyby of Enceladus. It is located at 21.9° South Latitude, 181.6° West Longitude, and is 21 kilometers across. Images taken by "C... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7975780 |
Microscale chemistry (often referred to as small-scale chemistry, in German: ) is an analytical method and also a teaching method widely used at school and at university levels, working with small quantities of chemical substances. While much of traditional chemistry teaching centers on multi-gramme preparations, milli... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7981894 |
Microscale chemistry El-Marsafy (1989) in Egypt, Stephen Thompson in the US and others. A further application of these ideas was the devising by Bradley of the Radmaste kits in South Africa, designed to make effective chemical experiments possible in developing countries in schools that lack the technical services (ele... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7981894 |
Microscale chemistry It has become a major presence on the educational scene in the US, it is used to a lesser extent in the UK and it is used in many countries in institutions with staff who are enthusiastic about it. For example, in India, small scale chemistry/ microscale chemistry is now implemented in a few univer... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7981894 |
Barley mild mosaic bymovirus is a plant virus. See the article in French, "Jaunisse nanisante de l'orge": https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaunisse_nanisante_de_l%27orge | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7983573 |
Bhatnagar–Gross–Krook operator The (abbreviated BGK operator) term refers to a collision operator used in the Boltzmann Equation and in the Lattice Boltzmann method, a Computational fluid dynamics technique. It is given by the following formula: where formula_2 is a local equilibrium value for the population of particl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7984958 |
Outline of biotechnology The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to biotechnology: Biotechnology – field of applied biology that involves the use of living organisms and bioprocesses in engineering, technology, medicine and other fields requiring bioproducts. Biotechnology also utilizes th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7985514 |
Basic precipitation or Alkaline precipitation occurs when either calcium oxide or sodium hydroxide is emitted into the atmosphere, absorbed by water droplets in clouds, and then falls as rain, snow, or sleet. Precipitation containing these compounds can increase the pH of soil or bodies of water and lead to increased f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7986449 |
Basic precipitation If no action is taken against these calcium derived aerosols then there could be detrimental damage done to the environment. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7986449 |
Active cavity radiometer - electrically self-calibrating, cavity pyrheliometer used to measure total and spectral solar irradiance. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7988703 |
Salt storm A salt storm is a low-lying cloud of airborne salt that hovers over large areas, the result of wind sweeping over salt flats. Salt storms usually occur in places with large aboveground deposits of salt, such as those surrounding the Great Salt Lake in Utah and the Aral Sea. Salt storms are also a frequent ph... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7993692 |
Takenoshin Nakai The International Plant Names Index lists 4,733 records of plant names of which Nakai is an author or co-author. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8002337 |
Global Atmospheric Research Program The was a fifteen-year international research programme led by the World Meteorological Organization and the International Council of Scientific Unions. It began in 1967 and organised several important field experiments including GARP Atlantic Tropical Experiment in 1974 and the Alpi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8002591 |
Remote Telescope Markup Language The (RTML) is an XML dialect for controlling remote and/or robotic telescopes. It is used to describe various telescope parameters (such as coordinates and exposure time) to facilitate observation of selected targets. RTML instructions were designed to be displayed in a more human-reada... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8003642 |
Primary atmosphere A primary atmosphere is an atmosphere of a planet that forms by accretion of gaseous matter from the accretion disc of the planet's sun. Planets such as Jupiter and Saturn have primary atmospheres. Primary atmospheres are very thick compared to secondary atmospheres like the one found on Earth. The p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8009963 |
Secondary atmosphere A secondary atmosphere is an atmosphere of a planet that did not form by accretion during the formation of the planet's star. A secondary atmosphere instead forms from internal volcanic activity, or by accumulation of material from comet impacts. It is characteristic of terrestrial planets, which i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8010002 |
Iridium anomaly The term iridium anomaly commonly refers to an unusual abundance of the chemical element iridium in a layer of rock strata at the Cretaceous–Paleogene (K-Pg) boundary. The unusually high concentration of a rare metal like iridium is often taken as evidence for an extraterrestrial impact event. The type ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8010045 |
Symmetry element A symmetry element is a point of reference about which symmetry operations can take place. In particular, symmetry elements can be identities, mirror planes, axes of rotation (both proper and improper), and centers of inversion. A symmetry element corresponds to a symmetry operation that generates the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8016560 |
CL1358+62 CL 1358+62 (ClG 1358+62) is a galaxy cluster located at z=0.33 redshift. Behind the cluster (which itself lies at a distance of about 3.9 billion light years), lensed into a red arc is an infant galaxy (CL 1358+62 G1) that was the farthest object in the observable universe for a few months. It had a record re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8018266 |
Clifford H. Stockwell Clifford Howard Stockwell (September 26, 1897 – April 26, 1987) was a Canadian geologist, who published many scientific papers, reports and memoirs in the fields of Mineralogy, Structural Geology, Petrology, and Stratigraphy. He earned his PhD in geology at McGill University in Montreal in 1926. H... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8021451 |
Clifford H. Stockwell Elizabeth Johnston (1909–1964), a talented amateur oilpainter. He is buried with his wife in Pinecrest Cemetery, Ottawa. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8021451 |
Oldřich Marek (1911–1986) was a Czech entomologist and teacher, and a member of Czechoslovak entomological society in Prague since 1940. was born on April 3, 1911 in Ústí nad Orlicí. He attended Primary school in Dolní Čermná and secondary school in Česká Třebová. After completing secondary school he left for Slovakia ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8022423 |
NGC 5886 (alternatively named ZWG 221.36) is an +14 magnitude elliptical galaxy in the constellation Boötes. It was originally discovered by William Herschel in 1828 with an 18.7 inch reflector. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8032033 |
Half-metal A half-metal is any substance that acts as a conductor to electrons of one spin orientation, but as an insulator or semiconductor to those of the opposite orientation. Although all half-metals are ferromagnetic (or ferrimagnetic), most ferromagnets are not half-metals. Many of the known examples of half-meta... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8033091 |
Jansha (impact crater) Jansha is an impact crater on the southern hemisphere of Saturn's moon Enceladus. Jansha was first observed in "Cassini" images during that mission's March 2005 flyby of Enceladus. It is located at 30.4° South Latitude, 156.9° West Longitude, and is 9.8 kilometers across. Several of the southwest... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8035886 |
Otbah (crater) Otbah is an impact crater on the southern hemisphere of Saturn's moon Enceladus. Otbah was first observed in "Cassini" images during that mission's March 2005 flyby of Enceladus. It is located at 39.8° South Latitude, 159.5° West Longitude, and is 9.4 kilometers across. A smaller impact occurred after th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8036134 |
Rayya (crater) Rayya is an impact crater on the southern hemisphere of Saturn's moon Enceladus. Rayya was first observed in "Cassini" images during that mission's March 2005 flyby of Enceladus. It is located at 32.5° South Latitude, 178.4° West Longitude, and is 9 kilometers across. "Cassini" observed numerous criss-cr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8036393 |
Ameghinite Ameghinite, Na<nowiki>[</nowiki>HBO] or NaBO(OH), is a mineral found in Argentina. It is a soft mineral with a Mohs hardness of 2-3. has a monoclinic crystal system. It was first described in 1967 for an occurrence in the Tincalayu Mine, Salar Del Hombre Muerto, Salta, Argentina. It was named for Argentine g... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8046441 |
Aksaite (Mg<nowiki>[</nowiki>BO(OH)]·2HO) is a mineral found in Kazakhstan. is named after the place it was discovered, "Ak-say" ("lit." White Glen). It was found in 1963 in Chelkar Salt Dome, Ak-say Valley, Kazakhstan. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8046578 |
Viropexis is the process by which different classes of viruses—particularly picornaviruses and papovaviruses—enter the host cell in which they will be able to replicate. The hydrophobic structures of the capsid proteins may be exposed after viral binding to the cell (see viral attachment protein). These structures help... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8052569 |
Shirin (crater) Shirin is an impact crater located on the anti-Saturn hemisphere of Saturn's moon Enceladus. Shirin was first observed in "Cassini" images during that mission's March 2005 flyby of Enceladus. It is located at 1.9° South Latitude, 172.4° West Longitude, and is 8.7 kilometers across. "Cassini" observed se... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8055015 |
Al-Mustazi is an impact crater located on the anti-Saturn hemisphere of Saturn's moon Enceladus. was first observed in "Cassini" images during that mission's March 2005 flyby of Enceladus. It is located at 20.9° South Latitude, 202.0° West Longitude, and is 10.3 kilometers across. "Cassini" observed numerous southwest-... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8055760 |
Hassan (crater) Hassan is an impact crater on the southern hemisphere of Saturn's moon Enceladus. Hassan was first observed in "Cassini" images during that mission's March 2005 flyby of Enceladus. It is located at 31.3° South Latitude, 188.5° West Longitude, and is 14.5 kilometers across. Numerous criss-crossing fractu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8056189 |
Pneumatolysis is an obsolete geologic term for magma emitting gasses that alter surrounding rock or crystallize minerals. is now considered a type of hydrothermal interaction. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8056632 |
Colleter (botany) Colleters are plant structures, multicellular secretory hairs, found in groups near the base of petioles, on stipules, and on sepals. They are found in members of the Loganiaceae and Rubiaceae families. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8061879 |
Vasishtha Siddhanta is one of the earliest astronomical systems in use in India, which is summarized in Varahamihira's Pancha-Siddhantika (6th century). It is attributed to sage Vasishtha and claims a date of composition of 1,299,101 BCE. The original text probably dated to the 4th century, but it has been lost and our... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8062192 |
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