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Retrometabolic drug design The importance of this field is reviewed in a book dedicated to the subject (Bodor, N.; Buchwald, P.; "Retrometabolic Drug Design and Targeting", 1st ed., Wiley & Sons, 2012), as well as by a full chapter of "Burger's Medicinal Chemistry and Drug Design", 7th ed. (2010) with close to 150 chem... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40287988 |
Retrometabolic drug design , Aston University, Göteborg University, Okayama University, Uppsala University, University of Iceland, University of Florida, Université Louis Pasteur, Yale University) and industrial (e.g., AstraZeneca, DuPont, GlaxoSmithKline, IVAX, Janssen Pharmaceutica, Nippon Organon, Novartis, ONO Phar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40287988 |
Retrometabolic drug design Following the introduction of the CDS concepts, work along those lines started in numerous pharmaceutical centers around the world, and brain-targeting CDSs were explored for many therapeutic agents such as steroids (testosterone, progestins, estradiol, dexamethasone), anti-infective agents (... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40287988 |
Reversibly assembled cellular composite materials (RCCM) are three-dimensional lattices of modular structures that can be partially disassembled to enable repairs or other modifications. Each cell incorporates structural material and a reversible interlock, allowing lattices of arbitrary size and shape. RCCM display th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40291216 |
Reversibly assembled cellular composite materials Bulk properties can be predicted from component measurements and deformation modes determined by the placement of part types. Site locations are locally constrained, yielding structures that merge desirable features of carbon fiber composites, cellular materials and add... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40291216 |
Reversibly assembled cellular composite materials The simulations also suggest that the coordinated buckling phenomenon as well as the modulus measurements are not dominated by edge effects, with minimal influence on overall results beyond characteristic lengths exceeding several units. Varying the locations of more an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40291216 |
Reversibly assembled cellular composite materials For Young’s modulus E, ideal stretch-dominated scaling with density ρ follows a proportional law E∝ρ, while common stochastic foams follow a quadratic law E∝ρ2 otherwise associated with transverse beam bending-dominated behavior. At ultralight densities a further reduce... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40291216 |
Reversibly assembled cellular composite materials The connections transfer forces through load-bearing surface contacts, requiring that the characteristic dimensions of the connections scale with the cross section of the attached strut members, t2, because this dimension determines the maximum stress transferable throu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40291216 |
Reversibly assembled cellular composite materials Each cell includes aligned fiber composite beams and looped fiber load-bearing holes that reversibly chain together to form volume-filling lattices. Mass-produced cells can be assembled to fill arbitrary structural shapes, with a resolution prescribed by the part scale ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40291216 |
Reversibly assembled cellular composite materials RCCM eliminate the need for custom tooling because parts can be incrementally added/removed. Their construction, modification, repair and re-use can all employ the same reversible linking process. Heterogeneous elements can be incorporated in structures with functions d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40291216 |
Gymnochrome E is a cytotoxic phenanthroperylenequinone isolated from a deep-water crinoid called "Holopus rangii". Gymnochromes E and F, cytotoxic phenanthroperylenequinones from a deep-water crinoid, Holopus rangii | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40292781 |
AdS/CMT correspondence In theoretical physics, anti-de Sitter/condensed matter theory correspondence is the program to apply string theory to condensed matter theory using the AdS/CFT correspondence. Over the decades, experimental condensed matter physicists have discovered a number of exotic states of matter, includin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40300017 |
AdS/CMT correspondence For example, the atoms slow to a halt at a rate that depends on the temperature and on Planck's constant, the fundamental parameter of quantum mechanics, which does not enter into the description of the other phases. This behavior has recently been understood by considering a dual description whe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40300017 |
Thermolabile protecting groups Thermolabile Protecting Groups (TPGs) are applied in chemical synthesis when mild deprotection conditions are required. Their removal merely consists of increasing temperature, which leads to deprotection of the protected sensitive part of a molecule. The deprotection mechanism has been p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40310987 |
Ghouta chemical attack The occurred in Ghouta, Syria during the Syrian Civil War, in the early hours of 21 August 2013. Two opposition-controlled areas in the suburbs around Damascus, Syria were struck by rockets containing the chemical agent sarin. Estimates of the death toll range from at least 281 people to 1,729. T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40313234 |
Ghouta chemical attack " It also stated that the chemical agents used in the Khan al-Assal chemical attack earlier in 2013 "bore the same unique hallmarks as those used in Al-Ghouta". The Syrian opposition as well as many governments, the Arab League and the European Union stated the attack was carried out by forces of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40313234 |
Ghouta chemical attack The Ghouta area is composed of densely populated suburbs to the east and south of Damascus, part of the province of Rif Dimashq. Ghouta is a primarily conservative Sunni region. Since early in the civil war, civilians in rebel-held Eastern Ghouta have almost entirely sided with the opposition to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40313234 |
Ghouta chemical attack The Khan al-Assal chemical attack occurred on 19 March 2013, when a government-controlled area of Khan al-Asal, a district of Aleppo in northern Syria, was struck by a rocket containing the nerve agent sarin. According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights the attack resulted in at least 26 ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40313234 |
Ghouta chemical attack " On 22 June, the head of the Commission of Inquiry, Paulo Pinheiro, said the UN could not determine who used chemical weapons in Syria based on evidence sent by the United States, Britain and France. US Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel stated on 25 April that US intelligence showed the Assad gov... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40313234 |
Ghouta chemical attack The first attack took place around 2:30 a.m. on 21 August 2013 in Eastern Ghouta, a rebel-held suburb to the east of Damascus. The area was on a rebel weapons supply route from Jordan and had been under siege by the Syrian military and Hezbollah for months. At least 8, and possibly 12, rockets st... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40313234 |
Ghouta chemical attack While no chemical warhead was ever found in the Western Ghouta area, one rocket engine has been identified as a 140mm M-14 unguided surface-to-surface rocket. This type of rocket can be fitted with three types of warheads: high explosive-fragmentation, white phosphorus smoke, or a chemical warhea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40313234 |
Ghouta chemical attack The Committee stated that "there is no credible intelligence or evidence to substantiate the claims or the possession of CW by the opposition." Åke Sellström, a Swedish scientist who led the UN mission to investigate the attacks, said it was difficult to see how rebels could have weaponized the t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40313234 |
Ghouta chemical attack " Ahmad Jarba, who was the president of the Syrian National Coalition at the time of the attack, called on the UN investigators to travel to "the site of the massacre" and for an urgent United Nations Security Council meeting on the subject. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the attack... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40313234 |
Ghouta chemical attack As a response, the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon created the "United Nations Mission to Investigate Alleged Uses of Chemical Weapons in the Syrian Arab Republic." The Syrian government first refused to allow the UN mission to be expanded to places outside Khan al-Assal, but agreed in July 2013... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40313234 |
Ghouta chemical attack The next day, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay urged government and opposition forces to allow an investigation and Ban requested the government provide immediate access. On 23 August, clashes between rebel and government forces continued in and around Ghouta, government shelling... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40313234 |
Ghouta chemical attack As a result of the delay caused by the sniper attack, the team's time in Moadamiyah was substantially shortened, with the scheduled expiry of the daily cease-fire leaving them around 90 minutes on the ground. On 28 and 29 August the UN team visited Zamalka and Ein Tarma in Eastern Ghouta, east of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40313234 |
Ghouta chemical attack The report, which was "careful not to blame either side," said that during the mission's work in areas under rebel control, "individuals arrived carrying other suspected munitions indicating that such potential evidence is being moved and possibly manipulated." The UN investigators were accompani... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40313234 |
Ghouta chemical attack An Iranian chemical weapons expert, Abbas Foroutan, said in October 2013 that the UN should publish more details about the investigation than were provided in the report, including victims' pulse rates and blood pressure and their response to the atropine treatment, the victims' levels of acetylc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40313234 |
Ghouta chemical attack The continuous fighting has severely limited the quality of medical care for injured survivors of the attack. A month after the attack, approximately 450 survivors still required medical attention for lingering symptoms such as respiratory and vision problems. By early October 2013, the 13,000 re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40313234 |
Ghouta chemical attack Nine months after the attack, there is evidence that mothers from the affected areas are giving birth to children with defects and as stillborn. Information Minister Omran al-Zoubi was quoted by the official state news agency, Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA), as saying that the government did not ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40313234 |
Ghouta chemical attack " In a statement on Facebook, the Coventry-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an anti-government activist network, blamed the attack on the Syrian military and said of the incident that "we assure the world that silence and inaction in the face of such gross and large-scale war crimes, co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40313234 |
Ghouta chemical attack In early September, the United States Congress began debating a proposed authorisation to use military force, although votes on the resolution were indefinitely postponed amid opposition from many legislators and tentative agreement between Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin on an alterna... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40313234 |
Ghouta chemical attack Other experts and officials questioned whether the government was responsible based on the timing of the attack, just after the UN Mission had arrived in Damascus, and lack of motivation, since the government was advancing in the area. In December 2013 Seymour Hersh wrote that in the days before ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40313234 |
Ghouta chemical attack On 20 October 2015, Republican People's Party deputy Eren Erdem told RT that documents from a Turkish government investigation showed that ISIL and affiliated groups received help from Turkish intelligence ("Millî İstihbarat Teşkilatı") to carry out the Ghouta chemical attack. Syrian human rights... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40313234 |
Ghouta chemical attack For conventional artillery and rocket attacks, residents usually went to the basements of buildings, where in this case the heavier-than-air sarin sank into these below-ground, poorly ventilated areas. Some of the victims died while sleeping. Abu Omar of the Free Syrian Army told "The Guardian" t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40313234 |
Ghouta chemical attack " Witness statements to "The Guardian" about symptoms included "people who were sleeping in their homes [who] died in their beds," headaches and nausea, "foam coming out of [victims'] mouths and noses," a "smell something like vinegar and rotten eggs," suffocation, "bodies [that] were turning blu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40313234 |
Ghouta chemical attack However, the reported symptoms of the patients, in addition to the epidemiological pattern of the events – characterised by the massive influx of patients in a short period of time, the origin of the patients, and the contamination of medical and first aid workers – strongly indicate mass exposur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40313234 |
Ghouta chemical attack According to analysis conducted in January 2014 by Theodore Postol and Richard Lloyd, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the rockets used in the attack had a range of about two kilometers, which, the authors claimed, meant that the munitions could not have been fired from the 'heart' o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40313234 |
Ghouta chemical attack The other was a phone call which the German Bundesnachrichtendienst said it had intercepted, between a high-ranking representative of Hezbollah and the Iranian embassy, in which the purported Hezbollah official said that poison gas had been used and that Assad's order to attack with chemical weap... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40313234 |
Ghouta chemical attack The videos were published on YouTube, attracting worldwide media attention. Experts who have analysed the first video said it shows the strongest evidence yet consistent with the use of a lethal toxic agent. Visible symptoms reportedly included rolling eyes, foaming at the mouth, and tremors. The... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40313234 |
Ghouta chemical attack "The other thing that seems inconsistent with sarin is that, given the footage of first responders treating victims without proper protective equipment, you would expect to see considerable secondary casualties from contamination – which does not appear to be evident." However, after Zanders saw ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40313234 |
Ghouta chemical attack According to public statements, intelligence agencies in Israel, the United Kingdom, the United States, France, Turkey, and Germany concluded that the Syrian government was most likely responsible for the attacks. Western intelligence agencies agreed that video evidence is consistent with the use... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40313234 |
Ghouta chemical attack Based on analysis of 47 videos, the report said at least 281 fatalities occurred. Using other sources and extrapolation a chemical attack model estimated the total number of death at approximately 1,500. The Bundesnachrichtendienst said it intercepted a phone call between a Hezbollah official and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40313234 |
Ghouta chemical attack Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said at the General debate of the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly that Syrian government used the chemical weapons against its own people. Russian officials said that there was no proof that the government of Syria had a hand in the ch... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40313234 |
Ghouta chemical attack It claimed that the 155th Missile Brigade had used 9K52 Luna-M missiles, M600 missiles, or both, fired from Kufeyte, while other rockets with a 15- to 70-kilometer range were fired by the 4th Armored Division from Mount Qasioun. The agency did not explain its source. A report on the attacks by th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40313234 |
Ghouta chemical attack The report was met with some scepticism in the British media, with the "Daily Mail" explicitly comparing it with the "dodgy dossier" the UK government had published in 2003 prior to the Iraq War. A vote in the House of Commons to approve UK participation in military action against Syria was narro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40313234 |
Ghouta chemical attack " A major element, as reported by news media, was an intercepted telephone call between a Syrian Ministry of Defense official and a Syrian 155th Brigade chemical weapons unit commander in which the former demanded answers for the attacks. According to some reports, this phone intercept was provid... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40313234 |
Ghouta chemical attack Grayson said the unclassified summary relied on "intercepted telephone calls, 'social media' postings and the like, but not one of these is actually quoted or attached … (As to whether the classified summary is the same, I couldn't possibly comment, but again, draw your own conclusion.)" Grayson ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40313234 |
Ghouta chemical attack " Porter quoted former intelligence officials who said the report was "evidently an administration document" and who also suggested evidence was "cherry-picked" to support the conclusion that the Syrian government carried out the attacks. On 8 September 2013, the then White House Chief-of-Staff, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40313234 |
Ghouta chemical attack The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, in the Tadic case, stated "there undisputedly emerged a general consensus in the international community on the principle that the use of [chemical] weapons is also prohibited in internal armed conflicts." Human Rights Watch stated th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40313234 |
Time-resolved mass spectrometry (TRMS) is a strategy in analytical chemistry that uses mass spectrometry platform to collect data with temporal resolution. Implementation of TRMS builds on the ability of mass spectrometers to process ions within sub-second duty cycles. It often requires the use of customized experiment... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40313828 |
Journal of Solid State Chemistry The is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Elsevier. The journal covers the chemical, structural, thermodynamic, electronic, and electromagnetic characteristics and properties of solids, including ceramics and amorphous materials. The editor-in-chief is M.G. Kanatzid... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40325558 |
Eudistomin Eudistomins are β-carboline derivatives, isolated from ascidians (marine tunicates of the family "Ascidiacea"), like "Ritterella sigillinoides",<ref name="doi10.1071/CH9891201"></ref> "Lissoclinum fragile",<ref name="doi10.1021/np50106a016"></ref> or "Pseudodistoma aureum".<ref name="doi10.1021/np9800452"></... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40325951 |
Société Française de Génie des Procédés The (French Society of Process Engineers) or SFGP is a French organization for chemical engineers. It is a member of the European Federation of Chemical Engineering and acts as joint Secretariat, and of "la Fédération Française pour les sciences de la Chimie" (FFC). It publishes ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40333066 |
Stearoylethanolamide (SEA) is an endocannabinoid neurotransmitter. Binding, degradation and apoptotic activity of stearoylethanolamide in rat C6 glioma cells | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40333152 |
Bishun Khare Bishun Narain Khare (27 June 1933 – 20 August 2013) was a scientist who specialized in the chemistry of planetary atmospheres and of molecules relevant to biology. He published several papers on tholins, the organic molecules formed by ultraviolet radiation or cosmic rays. From 1968 to 1996, Khare worked i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40334206 |
Topological fluid dynamics Topological ideas are relevant to fluid dynamics (including magnetohydrodynamics) at the kinematic level, since any fluid flow involves continuous deformation of any transported scalar or vector field. Problems of stirring and mixing are particularly susceptible to topological techniques. Thu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40335735 |
Topological fluid dynamics Much interest attaches to the determination of states of minimum energy, subject to prescribed topology. Many problems of fluid dynamics and magnetohydrodynamics fall within this category. Recent developments in topological fluid dynamics include also applications to magnetic braids in the so... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40335735 |
Jeewanu (Sanskrit for "particles of life") are synthetic chemical particles that possess cell-like structure and seem to have some functional properties; that is, they are a model of primitive cells, or protocells. It was first synthesised by Krishna Bahadur (20 January 1926 — 5 August 1994), an Indian chemist and his ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40341221 |
Jeewanu In 1954 and 1958 Krishna Bahadur and co-workers published the successful synthesis of amino acids from a mixture of paraformaldehyde, colloidal molybdenum oxide or potassium nitrate and ferric chloride under sunlight. It appears that this experimental approach was seminal for the assays to produce Jeewanu, whic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40341221 |
Jeewanu Bahadur reported that the exhibited various catalytic properties and produced their own peptides by metabolic reactions. Bahadur's later work on the also detected the presence of amino acids in peptide form and sugars in the form of ribose, deoxyribose, fructose and glucose, as well as nucleic acid bases (DNA a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40341221 |
Jeewanu The NASA report concluded that "the evidence presented on these three points is on the whole unconvincing". The report also stated that the postulated existence of these living units has not been proved and "the nature and properties of the remains to be clarified." In the 1980s, the Hungarian chemist Tibor Gán... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40341221 |
The Illustrated Guide to the Elements is a book by Jenna Whyte. Published in 2012, the book features factual information about all the chemical elements with drawings to illustrate the information. There was mention of a sequel. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40342730 |
C28H32O8 The molecular formula CHO may refer to: | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40347348 |
Concentrated solar still A concentrated solar still is a system that uses the same quantity of solar heat input (same solar collection area) as a simple solar still but can produce a volume of freshwater that is many times greater. While a simple solar still is a way of distilling water by using the heat of the sun to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40354380 |
Concentrated solar still The latent heat of the distillate vapor produced in the n-1 stage (or effect) is recovered in the nth stage by boiling the leftover concentrated brine from the n-1 stage which produces distillate vapor whose latent heat will be recovered in the n+1 stage by boiling the leftover concentrated bri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40354380 |
Concentrated solar still The conditions can be sufficiently upgraded such that the recovered heat can be used to provide additional heat for evaporation in the first effect. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40354380 |
Barceloneic acid may refer to: | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40363882 |
Bottom-blown oxygen converter The Bottom-blown Oxygen Converter or BBOC is a smelting furnace developed by the staff at Britannia Refined Metals Limited (“BRM”), a British subsidiary of MIM Holdings Limited (which is now part of the Glencore group of companies). The furnace is currently marketed by Glencore Technology.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40367176 |
Bottom-blown oxygen converter The product of this process is a feed for the BBOC consisting of a mixture of lead, silver (60–75%), zinc (2–3%) and copper (2–3%), with trace amounts of gold. Prior to the development of the BBOC, BRM used cupellation in a 15 tonne (“t”) reverberatory cupellation furnace to recover the pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40367176 |
Bottom-blown oxygen converter The BBOC was developed by BRM personnel as a way of reducing these and other problems, such as low energy efficiency and low oxygen utilization, associated with the reverberatory cupellation process. The BBOC furnace is a cylindrical steel vessel with a protective internal lining of refrac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40367176 |
Bottom-blown oxygen converter The first is that the increased certainty in the estimation of oxygen utilization efficiency means that it is easier to calculate the endpoint of the process, making process control much easier. The second is that a thicker slag layer can be tolerated (because the oxygen does not have to p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40367176 |
Bottom-blown oxygen converter Once the charge has been melted, the furnace is tilted back into the blowing position and oxygen is blown into the bath. Slag formed from the oxidation of lead and zinc is removed periodically by tilting the furnace forward again and pouring it off. The oxygen flow rate during blowing for ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40367176 |
Bottom-blown oxygen converter One of the first areas investigated was the use of oxygen-enriched blast air in the reverberatory furnace. This was “found to be of marginal benefit and not economically viable." The BRM staff subsequently tried to increase the oxygen transfer rate by using lances submerged in the bath of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40367176 |
Bottom-blown oxygen converter Based on the success of the small-scale tests, and with calculations indicating that the new design would have significant energy savings over the reverberatory furnace, the BRM staff built a 1.5 t pilot plant with a working volume of 150 liters (“L”). The oxygen injector was a fixed tuyer... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40367176 |
Bottom-blown oxygen converter After the successful operation of the BBOC at BRM, MIM Holdings Limited (“MIM”) decided to license the technology to other smelter and refinery operators. Early adopters included Hindustan Zinc Limited, which by 1995 had two 1 t BBOC plants operating in India, and ASARCO Inc., which was op... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40367176 |
Bottom-blown oxygen converter The Rand Refinery BBOC was commissioned in 1994. The operators reported a 28% reduction in the operating costs when the BBOC’s costs were compared with those of the TBRC–reverberatory furnace combination. This included a 45% reduction in bulk oxygen costs and halving the number of operator... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40367176 |
Bottom-blown oxygen converter It was also found impractical to cast anode plates of doré directly from the Sirosmelt furnace, so the Sirosmelt doré had to undergo a further refining step in a reverberatory furnace, together with a sodium nitrate flux. Then, in 1996, BHAS decided to modernize the refining circuit and re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40367176 |
Bottom-blown oxygen converter Consequently, BHAS decided to increase the operating temperature to 1100–1150 °C so that the silver remained liquid until cast into the anode molds. A side effect of this is that the lead and copper content of the product doré are higher than if the furnace is operated at 1050 °C, at 0.2% ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40367176 |
Bottom-blown oxygen converter The ASARCO Amarillo copper refinery switched in 1991 from reverberatory furnace treatment of anode slimes to a BBOC to reduce the gold inventory. The original reverberatory furnace had a 15 t capacity. The production cycle of the reverberatory furnace was typically 7–10 days, with the fina... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40367176 |
Bottom-blown oxygen converter 5 t-capacity BBOC to replace its reverberatory doré furnace in October 1992. Sumitomo reported that, while the old oil-fired reverberatory furnace had served it well for many years, it had the following drawbacks: Sumitomo investigated both the TBRC and BBOC furnaces before making a select... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40367176 |
Bottom-blown oxygen converter Prior to the installation of the BBOC, the Takehara refinery refined a mixture of copper and lead anode slimes in a three reverberatory furnaces (two operating and one being rebricked) in a process that had a cycle time of 104 hours for refining 6 t of bullion. The reverberatory furnaces w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40367176 |
Ancyronyx Ancyronyx, commonly known as spider water beetles or spider riffle beetles, is a genus of aquatic riffle beetles from North America, South Asia, China, and Southeast Asia. They are small beetles with extremely long legs ending in strong claws. Both the adults and the larvae are found underwater in the shallow... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40368781 |
Ancyronyx The pair of antennae are typically 11-segmented. Most of the species possess brightly colored patterns on their elytra, but not all. The elytra also possess eight to eleven grooves (elytral striae), as well as small depressions (elytral punctures) of varying depth and number. The pronotum possesses a transver... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40368781 |
Ancyronyx As the insect breathes, the oxygen concentration in the gas film drops in comparison to the surrounding water, causing new oxygen to diffuse again into the plastron. Because of their reliance on the plastron for breathing, spider water beetles are restricted to the highly oxygenated environments in moderate t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40368781 |
Ancyronyx acaroides" were rediscovered from Sumatra by the Austrian coleopterologists Manfred A. Jäch and S. Schödl, confirming its type locality. In addition they also discovered the species in Southeast Asia, including West Malaysia, Sarawak and Bali during 1992 and 1993. The species was also subsequently found in Th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40368781 |
5'-Methoxyhydnocarpin (5′-MHC) is a chemical compound that has been isolated from "Berberis" and "Hydnocarpus wightianus". 5′-MHC potentiates the antimicrobial effect of berberine "in vitro". | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40375557 |
DMol3 is a commercial (and academic) software package which uses density functional theory with a numerical radial function basis set to calculate the electronic properties of molecules, clusters, surfaces and crystalline solid materials from first principles. can either use gas phase boundary conditions or 3d periodic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40378214 |
Plasmidome An environment's plasmidome refers to the plasmids present in it. The term is a portmanteau of the two English words Plasmid and Kingdom. In biological research, plasmidome may refer to the actual plasmids that were found and isolated from a certain microorganism by means of culturing isolated microorganism ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40378416 |
Annals of Clinical Biochemistry is a bimonthly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering all aspects of clinical biochemistry. The editor-in-chief is Edmund J. Lamb (East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust). It was established 1960 and is published by Sage Publications on behalf of The Association for Clini... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40380701 |
PACMAD clade The (previously PACCMAD, PACCAD, or PACC) is one of two major lineages (or clades) of the true grasses (Poaceae), regrouping six subfamilies and about 5700 species, more than half of all true grasses. Its sister group is the BOP clade. The PACMAD lineage is the only group within the grasses within which th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40382500 |
Diathermal wall In thermodynamics, a diathermal wall between two thermodynamic systems allows heat transfer but do not allow transfer of matter across it. The diathermal wall is important because, in thermodynamics, it is customary to assume "a priori", for a closed system, the physical existence of transfer of energy ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40392854 |
Diathermal wall These mechanisms presuppose recognition of temperature; empirical temperature is enough for this purpose, though absolute temperature can also serve. In this stream of thinking, quantity of heat is defined primarily through calorimetry. Though its definition of them differs from that of the mechanical s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40392854 |
Diathermal wall It is essential to this stream of thinking that, for the specification of the thermodynamic state of a body or closed system, in addition to the variables of state called deformation variables, there be precisely one extra real-number-valued variable of state, called the non-deformation variable, though... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40392854 |
Diathermal wall Also, by the [Helmholtz reciprocity] principle, the target system radiates into the laser source system, though of course relatively weakly compared with the laser light. According to Planck, an incoherent monochromatic beam of light transfers entropy and has a temperature. For a transfer to qualify as ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40392854 |
Diathermal wall Nevertheless, Carathéodory explicitly postulates the existence of walls that are permeable only to heat, that is to say impermeable to work and to matter, but still permeable to energy in some unspecified way; they are called diathermal walls. One might be forgiven for inferring from this that heat is e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40392854 |
Heat-transfer fluid A heat transfer fluid is a gas or liquid that takes part in heat transfer by serving as an intermediary in cooling on one side of a process, transporting and storing thermal energy, and heating on another side of a process. Heat transfer fluids are used in countless applications and industrial proce... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40394203 |
Heat-transfer fluid In order to prevent overheating, fluid flows inside a system or a device so as to transfer the heat outside that particular device or system. They generally have a high boiling point and a high heat capacity. High boiling point prevents the heat transfer liquids from vaporising at large temperatures... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40394203 |
Heat-transfer fluid The equipment will be designed for liquids but their vaporisation will include vapours in the flow channel. Also gases occupy larger volume than liquids at the same pressure. The production of vapours will increase the pressure on the walls of the pipe/channel where it will be flowing. This may caus... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40394203 |
IUPAC Inorganic Chemistry Division The Inorganic Chemistry Division of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC), also known as Division II, deals with all aspects of inorganic chemistry, including materials and bioinorganic chemistry, and also with isotopes, atomic weights and the periodic table. I... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40397328 |
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