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Misuse, problem use, abuse, and heavy use of alcohol refer to improper use of alcohol, which may cause physical, social, or moral harm to the drinker. The Dietary Guidelines for Americans, issued by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) in 2005, defines "moderate use" as no more than two alcoholic beverage... | Alcoholism | Wikipedia | 489 | 2965 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcoholism | Biology and health sciences | Drugs and medication | null |
In professional and research contexts, the term alcoholism is not currently favored, but rather alcohol abuse, alcohol dependence, or alcohol use disorder are used. Talbot (1989) observes that alcoholism in the classical disease model follows a progressive course: if people continue to drink, their condition will worse... | Alcoholism | Wikipedia | 511 | 2965 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcoholism | Biology and health sciences | Drugs and medication | null |
Screening
Screening is recommended among those over the age of 18. Several tools may be used to detect a loss of control of alcohol use. These tools are mostly self-reports in questionnaire form. Another common theme is a score or tally that sums up the general severity of alcohol use.
The CAGE questionnaire, named fo... | Alcoholism | Wikipedia | 496 | 2965 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcoholism | Biology and health sciences | Drugs and medication | null |
However, none of these blood tests for biological markers is as sensitive as screening questionnaires.
Prevention
The World Health Organization, the European Union and other regional bodies, national governments and parliaments have formed alcohol policies in order to reduce the harm of alcoholism.
Increasing the ag... | Alcoholism | Wikipedia | 378 | 2965 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcoholism | Biology and health sciences | Drugs and medication | null |
Medical treatment for alcohol detoxification usually involves administration of a benzodiazepine, in order to ameliorate alcohol withdrawal syndrome's adverse impact. The addition of phenobarbital improves outcomes if benzodiazepine administration lacks the usual efficacy, and phenobarbital alone might be an effective ... | Alcoholism | Wikipedia | 511 | 2965 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcoholism | Biology and health sciences | Drugs and medication | null |
Rationing and moderation programs such as Moderation Management and DrinkWise do not mandate complete abstinence. While most people with alcohol use disorders are unable to limit their drinking in this way, some return to moderate drinking. A 2002 US study by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAA... | Alcoholism | Wikipedia | 258 | 2965 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcoholism | Biology and health sciences | Drugs and medication | null |
Medications
In the United States there are four approved medications for alcoholism: acamprosate, two methods of using naltrexone and disulfiram.
Acamprosate may stabilise the brain chemistry that is altered due to alcohol dependence via antagonising the actions of glutamate, a neurotransmitter which is hyperactive in... | Alcoholism | Wikipedia | 438 | 2965 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcoholism | Biology and health sciences | Drugs and medication | null |
Several other drugs are also used and many are under investigation.
Benzodiazepines are a first line medication in the management of acute alcohol withdrawal, however their use outside of the acute withdrawal period is not recommended. Benzodiazepines with a shorter half life, such as lorazepam or oxazepam are preferr... | Alcoholism | Wikipedia | 454 | 2965 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcoholism | Biology and health sciences | Drugs and medication | null |
Research
Topiramate, a derivative of the naturally occurring sugar monosaccharide D-fructose, has been found effective in helping alcoholics quit or cut back on the amount they drink. Evidence suggests that topiramate antagonizes excitatory glutamate receptors, inhibits dopamine release, and enhances inhibitory gamma-a... | Alcoholism | Wikipedia | 252 | 2965 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcoholism | Biology and health sciences | Drugs and medication | null |
Dual addictions and dependencies
Alcoholics may also require treatment for other psychotropic drug addictions and drug dependencies. The most common dual dependence syndrome with alcohol dependence is benzodiazepine dependence, with studies showing 10–20% of alcohol-dependent individuals had problems of dependence and/... | Alcoholism | Wikipedia | 423 | 2965 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcoholism | Biology and health sciences | Drugs and medication | null |
In the United States and Western Europe, 10–20% of men and 5–10% of women at some point in their lives will meet criteria for alcoholism. In England, the number of "dependent drinkers" was calculated as over 600,000 in 2019. Estonia had the highest death rate from alcohol in Europe in 2015 at 8.8 per 100,000 population... | Alcoholism | Wikipedia | 381 | 2965 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcoholism | Biology and health sciences | Drugs and medication | null |
Among those with alcohol dependence after one year, some met the criteria for low-risk drinking, even though only 26% of the group received any treatment, with the breakdown as follows: 25% were found to be still dependent, 27% were in partial remission (some symptoms persist), 12% asymptomatic drinkers (consumption in... | Alcoholism | Wikipedia | 501 | 2965 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcoholism | Biology and health sciences | Drugs and medication | null |
The various health problems associated with long-term alcohol consumption are generally perceived as detrimental to society; for example, money due to lost labor-hours, medical costs due to injuries due to drunkenness and organ damage from long-term use, and secondary treatment costs, such as the costs of rehabilitatio... | Alcoholism | Wikipedia | 461 | 2965 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcoholism | Biology and health sciences | Drugs and medication | null |
Stereotypes of alcoholics are often found in fiction and popular culture. The "town drunk" is a stock character in Western popular culture. Stereotypes of drunkenness may be based on racism or xenophobia, as in the fictional depiction of the Irish as heavy drinkers. Studies by social psychologists Stivers and Greeley a... | Alcoholism | Wikipedia | 249 | 2965 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcoholism | Biology and health sciences | Drugs and medication | null |
In mathematics, an abelian group, also called a commutative group, is a group in which the result of applying the group operation to two group elements does not depend on the order in which they are written. That is, the group operation is commutative. With addition as an operation, the integers and the real numbers fo... | Abelian group | Wikipedia | 479 | 2974 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abelian%20group | Mathematics | Algebra | null |
Multiplication table
To verify that a finite group is abelian, a table (matrix) – known as a Cayley table – can be constructed in a similar fashion to a multiplication table. If the group is under the the entry of this table contains the product .
The group is abelian if and only if this table is symmetric about t... | Abelian group | Wikipedia | 477 | 2974 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abelian%20group | Mathematics | Algebra | null |
Properties
If is a natural number and is an element of an abelian group written additively, then can be defined as ( summands) and . In this way, becomes a module over the ring of integers. In fact, the modules over can be identified with the abelian groups.
Theorems about abelian groups (i.e. modules over th... | Abelian group | Wikipedia | 466 | 2974 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abelian%20group | Mathematics | Algebra | null |
Finite abelian groups
Cyclic groups of integers modulo , , were among the first examples of groups. It turns out that an arbitrary finite abelian group is isomorphic to a direct sum of finite cyclic groups of prime power order, and these orders are uniquely determined, forming a complete system of invariants. The auto... | Abelian group | Wikipedia | 509 | 2974 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abelian%20group | Mathematics | Algebra | null |
Amputation is the removal of a limb by trauma, medical illness, or surgery. As a surgical measure, it is used to control pain or a disease process in the affected limb, such as malignancy or gangrene. In some cases, it is carried out on individuals as a preventive surgery for such problems. A special case is that of co... | Amputation | Wikipedia | 377 | 2992 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amputation | Biology and health sciences | Medical procedures | null |
partial foot amputation amputation of the lower limb distal to the ankle joint
ankle disarticulation amputation of the lower limb at the ankle joint
trans-tibial amputation amputation of the lower limb between the knee joint and the ankle joint, commonly referred to as a below-knee amputation
knee disarticulation am... | Amputation | Wikipedia | 494 | 2992 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amputation | Biology and health sciences | Medical procedures | null |
In some rare cases when a person has become trapped in a deserted place, with no means of communication or hope of rescue, the victim has amputated their own limb. The most notable case of this is Aron Ralston, a hiker who amputated his own right forearm after it was pinned by a boulder in a hiking accident and he was ... | Amputation | Wikipedia | 494 | 2992 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amputation | Biology and health sciences | Medical procedures | null |
Infection
Bone infection (osteomyelitis) and/or diabetic foot infections
Gangrene
Trench foot
Necrosis
Meningococcal meningitis
Streptococcus
Vibrio vulnificus
Necrotizing fasciitis
Gas gangrene
Legionella
Influenza A Virus
Animal bites
Sepsis
Bubonic plague
Frostbite
Frostbite is a cold-related injury... | Amputation | Wikipedia | 262 | 2992 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amputation | Biology and health sciences | Medical procedures | null |
According to Quran 5:38, the punishment for stealing is the amputation of the hand. Under Sharia law, after repeated offense, the foot may also be cut off. This is still in practice today in countries like Brunei, the United Arab Emirates, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, and 11 of the 36 states within Nigeria.
Cross-amputa... | Amputation | Wikipedia | 440 | 2992 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amputation | Biology and health sciences | Medical procedures | null |
Surgeons performing an amputation have to first ligate the supplying artery and vein, so as to prevent hemorrhage (bleeding). The muscles are transected, and finally, the bone is sawed through with an oscillating saw. Sharp and rough edges of bones are filed, skin and muscle flaps are then transposed over the stump, oc... | Amputation | Wikipedia | 482 | 2992 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amputation | Biology and health sciences | Medical procedures | null |
A 2017 review found that the use of rigid removable dressings (RRD's) in trans-tibial amputations, rather than soft bandaging, improved healing time, reduced edema, prevented knee flexion contractures and reduced complications, including further amputation, from external trauma such as falls onto the stump.
Post-opera... | Amputation | Wikipedia | 477 | 2992 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amputation | Biology and health sciences | Medical procedures | null |
In the United States in 1999, there were 14,420 non-fatal traumatic amputations according to the American Statistical Association. Of these, 4,435 occurred as a result of traffic and transportation accidents and 9,985 were due to labor accidents. Of all traumatic amputations, the distribution percentage is 30.75% for t... | Amputation | Wikipedia | 471 | 2992 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amputation | Biology and health sciences | Medical procedures | null |
A study found that the patented method called Circulator Boot achieved significant results in prevention of amputation in patients with diabetes and arteriosclerosis. Another study found it also effective for healing limb ulcers caused by peripheral vascular disease. The boot checks the heart rhythm and compresses the ... | Amputation | Wikipedia | 493 | 2992 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amputation | Biology and health sciences | Medical procedures | null |
Another side effect can be heterotopic ossification, especially when a bone injury is combined with a head injury. The brain signals the bone to grow instead of scar tissue to form, and nodules and other growth can interfere with prosthetics and sometimes require further operations. This type of injury has been especia... | Amputation | Wikipedia | 470 | 2992 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amputation | Biology and health sciences | Medical procedures | null |
Notable cases
Patch Adams
Rick Allen
Douglas Bader
Götz of the Iron Hand
Carl Brashear
Lisa Bufano
Roberto Carlos
Tammy Duckworth
Kalamandalam Sankaran Embranthiri
Terry Fox
Zach Gowen
Pete Gray
Shaquem Griffin
Robert David Hall
Bethany Hamilton
Hugh Herr
Frida Kahlo
Ronnie Lott
Hari Budha Magar
Ai... | Amputation | Wikipedia | 93 | 2992 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amputation | Biology and health sciences | Medical procedures | null |
Archaeopteryx (; ), sometimes referred to by its German name, "" ( Primeval Bird) is a genus of bird-like dinosaurs. The name derives from the ancient Greek (archaīos), meaning "ancient", and (ptéryx), meaning "feather" or "wing". Between the late 19th century and the early 21st century, Archaeopteryx was generally a... | Archaeopteryx | Wikipedia | 469 | 2995 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaeopteryx | Biology and health sciences | General articles | null |
Most of these twelve fossils include impressions of feathers. Because these feathers are of an advanced form (flight feathers), these fossils are evidence that the evolution of feathers began before the Late Jurassic. The type specimen of Archaeopteryx was discovered just two years after Charles Darwin published On the... | Archaeopteryx | Wikipedia | 384 | 2995 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaeopteryx | Biology and health sciences | General articles | null |
The first skeleton, known as the London Specimen (BMNH 37001), was unearthed in 1861 near , Germany, and perhaps given to local physician in return for medical services. He then sold it for £700 (roughly £83,000 in 2020) to the Natural History Museum in London, where it remains. Missing most of its head and neck, it w... | Archaeopteryx | Wikipedia | 418 | 2995 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaeopteryx | Biology and health sciences | General articles | null |
The Berlin Specimen (HMN 1880/81) was discovered in 1874 or 1875 on the Blumenberg near , Germany, by farmer Jakob Niemeyer. He sold this precious fossil for the money to buy a cow in 1876, to innkeeper Johann Dörr, who again sold it to Ernst Otto Häberlein, the son of K. Häberlein. Placed on sale between 1877 and 1881... | Archaeopteryx | Wikipedia | 483 | 2995 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaeopteryx | Biology and health sciences | General articles | null |
The Eichstätt Specimen (JM 2257) was discovered in 1951 near Workerszell, Germany, and described by Peter Wellnhofer in 1974. Currently located at the Jura Museum in Eichstätt, Germany, it is the smallest known specimen and has the second-best head. It is possibly a separate genus (Jurapteryx recurva) or species (A. re... | Archaeopteryx | Wikipedia | 361 | 2995 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaeopteryx | Biology and health sciences | General articles | null |
An eighth, fragmentary specimen was discovered in 1990 in the younger Mörnsheim Formation at Daiting, Suevia. Therefore, it is known as the Daiting Specimen, and had been known since 1996 only from a cast, briefly shown at the Naturkundemuseum in Bamberg. The original was purchased by palaeontologist Raimund Albertsdör... | Archaeopteryx | Wikipedia | 283 | 2995 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaeopteryx | Biology and health sciences | General articles | null |
Long in a private collection in Switzerland, the Thermopolis Specimen (WDC CSG 100) was discovered in Bavaria and described in 2005 by Mayr, Pohl, and Peters. Donated to the Wyoming Dinosaur Center in Thermopolis, Wyoming, it has the best-preserved head and feet; most of the neck and the lower jaw have not been preserv... | Archaeopteryx | Wikipedia | 439 | 2995 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaeopteryx | Biology and health sciences | General articles | null |
The existence of a thirteenth specimen (the Chicago specimen) was announced in 2024 by the Field Museum in Chicago, US. One of two specimens in an institution outside Europe, the specimen was originally identified in a private collection in Switzerland, and had been acquired by these collectors in 1990, prior to German... | Archaeopteryx | Wikipedia | 503 | 2995 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaeopteryx | Biology and health sciences | General articles | null |
Finally, the motives they suggested for a forgery are not strong, and are contradictory; one is that Richard Owen wanted to forge evidence in support of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution, which is unlikely given Owen's views toward Darwin and his theory. The other is that Owen wanted to set a trap for Darwin, hoping... | Archaeopteryx | Wikipedia | 475 | 2995 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaeopteryx | Biology and health sciences | General articles | null |
Archaeopteryx was roughly the size of a raven, with broad wings that were rounded at the ends and a long tail compared to its body length. It could reach up to in body length and in wingspan, with an estimated mass of . Archaeopteryx feathers, although less documented than its other features, were very similar in str... | Archaeopteryx | Wikipedia | 482 | 2995 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaeopteryx | Biology and health sciences | General articles | null |
The body plumage of Archaeopteryx is less well-documented and has only been properly researched in the well-preserved Berlin specimen. Thus, as more than one species seems to be involved, the research into the Berlin specimen's feathers does not necessarily hold true for the rest of the species of Archaeopteryx. In the... | Archaeopteryx | Wikipedia | 483 | 2995 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaeopteryx | Biology and health sciences | General articles | null |
In 2011, graduate student Ryan Carney and colleagues performed the first colour study on an Archaeopteryx specimen. Using scanning electron microscopy technology and energy-dispersive X-ray analysis, the team was able to detect the structure of melanosomes in the isolated feather specimen described in 1861. The resulta... | Archaeopteryx | Wikipedia | 380 | 2995 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaeopteryx | Biology and health sciences | General articles | null |
Today, fossils of the genus Archaeopteryx are usually assigned to one or two species, A. lithographica and A. siemensii, but their taxonomic history is complicated. Ten names have been published for the handful of specimens. As interpreted today, the name A. lithographica only referred to the single feather described b... | Archaeopteryx | Wikipedia | 476 | 2995 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaeopteryx | Biology and health sciences | General articles | null |
It has been argued that all the specimens belong to the same species, A. lithographica. Differences do exist among the specimens, and while some researchers regard these as due to the different ages of the specimens, some may be related to actual species diversity. In particular, the Munich, Eichstätt, Solnhofen, and T... | Archaeopteryx | Wikipedia | 393 | 2995 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaeopteryx | Biology and health sciences | General articles | null |
If two names are given, the first denotes the original describer of the "species", the second the author on whom the given name combination is based. As always in zoological nomenclature, putting an author's name in parentheses denotes that the taxon was originally described in a different genus.
Archaeopteryx lithogr... | Archaeopteryx | Wikipedia | 507 | 2995 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaeopteryx | Biology and health sciences | General articles | null |
The discovery of the closely related Xiaotingia in 2011 led to new phylogenetic analyses that suggested that Archaeopteryx is a deinonychosaur rather than an avialan, and therefore, not a "bird" under most common uses of that term. A more thorough analysis was published soon after to test this hypothesis, and failed to... | Archaeopteryx | Wikipedia | 391 | 2995 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaeopteryx | Biology and health sciences | General articles | null |
Agnolín and Novas (2013) found Archaeopteryx and (possibly synonymous) Wellnhoferia to be from a clade sister to the lineage including Jeholornis and Pygostylia, with Microraptoria, Unenlagiinae, and the clade containing Anchiornis and Xiaotingia being successively closer outgroups to the Avialae (defined by the author... | Archaeopteryx | Wikipedia | 478 | 2995 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaeopteryx | Biology and health sciences | General articles | null |
As in the wings of modern birds, the flight feathers of Archaeopteryx were somewhat asymmetrical and the tail feathers were rather broad. This implies that the wings and tail were used for lift generation, but it is unclear whether Archaeopteryx was capable of flapping flight or simply a glider. The lack of a bony brea... | Archaeopteryx | Wikipedia | 446 | 2995 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaeopteryx | Biology and health sciences | General articles | null |
The feathers of Archaeopteryx were asymmetrical. This has been interpreted as evidence that it was a flyer, because flightless birds tend to have symmetrical feathers. Some scientists, including Thomson and Speakman, have questioned this. They studied more than 70 families of living birds, and found that some flightles... | Archaeopteryx | Wikipedia | 118 | 2995 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaeopteryx | Biology and health sciences | General articles | null |
In 2010, Robert L. Nudds and Gareth J. Dyke in the journal Science published a paper in which they analysed the rachises of the primary feathers of Confuciusornis and Archaeopteryx. The analysis suggested that the rachises on these two genera were thinner and weaker than those of modern birds relative to body mass. The... | Archaeopteryx | Wikipedia | 467 | 2995 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaeopteryx | Biology and health sciences | General articles | null |
In 2004, scientists analysing a detailed CT scan of the braincase of the London Archaeopteryx concluded that its brain was significantly larger than that of most dinosaurs, indicating that it possessed the brain size necessary for flying. The overall brain anatomy was reconstructed using the scan. The reconstruction sh... | Archaeopteryx | Wikipedia | 330 | 2995 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaeopteryx | Biology and health sciences | General articles | null |
Archaeopteryx continues to play an important part in scientific debates about the origin and evolution of birds. Some scientists see it as a semi-arboreal climbing animal, following the idea that birds evolved from tree-dwelling gliders (the "trees down" hypothesis for the evolution of flight proposed by O. C. Marsh). ... | Archaeopteryx | Wikipedia | 419 | 2995 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaeopteryx | Biology and health sciences | General articles | null |
An histological study by Erickson, Norell, Zhongue, and others in 2009 estimated that Archaeopteryx grew relatively slowly compared to modern birds, presumably because the outermost portions of Archaeopteryx bones appear poorly vascularized; in living vertebrates, poorly vascularized bone is correlated with slow growth... | Archaeopteryx | Wikipedia | 415 | 2995 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaeopteryx | Biology and health sciences | General articles | null |
The richness and diversity of the Solnhofen limestones in which all specimens of Archaeopteryx have been found have shed light on an ancient Jurassic Bavaria strikingly different from the present day. The latitude was similar to Florida, though the climate was likely to have been drier, as evidenced by fossils of plant... | Archaeopteryx | Wikipedia | 444 | 2995 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaeopteryx | Biology and health sciences | General articles | null |
The lifestyle of Archaeopteryx is difficult to reconstruct and there are several theories regarding it. Some researchers suggest that it was primarily adapted to life on the ground, while other researchers suggest that it was principally arboreal on the basis of the curvature of the claws which has since been questione... | Archaeopteryx | Wikipedia | 186 | 2995 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaeopteryx | Biology and health sciences | General articles | null |
In chemistry, an acid–base reaction is a chemical reaction that occurs between an acid and a base. It can be used to determine pH via titration. Several theoretical frameworks provide alternative conceptions of the reaction mechanisms and their application in solving related problems; these are called the acid–base the... | Acid–base reaction | Wikipedia | 258 | 3038 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid%E2%80%93base%20reaction | Physical sciences | Chemistry | null |
Lavoisier's oxygen theory of acids
The first scientific concept of acids and bases was provided by Lavoisier in around 1776. Since Lavoisier's knowledge of strong acids was mainly restricted to oxoacids, such as (nitric acid) and (sulfuric acid), which tend to contain central atoms in high oxidation states surrounded... | Acid–base reaction | Wikipedia | 481 | 3038 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid%E2%80%93base%20reaction | Physical sciences | Chemistry | null |
This causes the protonation of water, or the creation of the hydronium () ion. Thus, in modern times, the symbol is interpreted as a shorthand for , because it is now known that a bare proton does not exist as a free species in aqueous solution. This is the species which is measured by pH indicators to measure the aci... | Acid–base reaction | Wikipedia | 486 | 3038 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid%E2%80%93base%20reaction | Physical sciences | Chemistry | null |
Whether commercially or domestically prepared, the principles behind baking powder formulations remain the same. The acid–base reaction can be generically represented as shown:
The real reactions are more complicated because the acids are complicated. For example, starting with sodium bicarbonate and monocalcium ph... | Acid–base reaction | Wikipedia | 322 | 3038 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid%E2%80%93base%20reaction | Physical sciences | Chemistry | null |
Unlike the previous definitions, the Brønsted–Lowry definition does not refer to the formation of salt and solvent, but instead to the formation of conjugate acids and conjugate bases, produced by the transfer of a proton from the acid to the base. In this approach, acids and bases are fundamentally different in behavi... | Acid–base reaction | Wikipedia | 510 | 3038 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid%E2%80%93base%20reaction | Physical sciences | Chemistry | null |
In the Brønsted–Lowry model, the solvent does not necessarily have to be water, as is required by the Arrhenius Acid–Base model. For example, consider what happens when acetic acid, , dissolves in liquid ammonia.
An ion is removed from acetic acid, forming its conjugate base, the acetate ion, . The addition of an io... | Acid–base reaction | Wikipedia | 387 | 3038 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid%E2%80%93base%20reaction | Physical sciences | Chemistry | null |
is a typical Lewis acid, Lewis base reaction. All compounds of group 13 elements with a formula can behave as Lewis acids. Similarly, compounds of group 15 elements with a formula , such as amines, , and phosphines, , can behave as Lewis bases. Adducts between them have the formula with a dative covalent bond, shown ... | Acid–base reaction | Wikipedia | 460 | 3038 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid%E2%80%93base%20reaction | Physical sciences | Chemistry | null |
Some aprotic systems also undergo such dissociation, such as dinitrogen tetroxide into nitrosonium and nitrate, antimony trichloride into dichloroantimonium and tetrachloroantimonate, and phosgene into chlorocarboxonium and chloride:
A solute that causes an increase in the concentration of the solvonium ions and a dec... | Acid–base reaction | Wikipedia | 506 | 3038 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid%E2%80%93base%20reaction | Physical sciences | Chemistry | null |
Usanovich definition
Mikhail Usanovich developed a general theory that does not restrict acidity to hydrogen-containing compounds, but his approach, published in 1938, was even more general than Lewis theory. Usanovich's theory can be summarized as defining an acid as anything that accepts negative species or donates p... | Acid–base reaction | Wikipedia | 490 | 3038 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid%E2%80%93base%20reaction | Physical sciences | Chemistry | null |
The equilibrium constant for this reaction can be derived from the acid dissociation constants of adenine and of the dihydrogen phosphate ion.
The notation [X] signifies "concentration of X". When these two equations are combined by eliminating the hydrogen ion concentration, an expression for the equilibrium constant... | Acid–base reaction | Wikipedia | 215 | 3038 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid%E2%80%93base%20reaction | Physical sciences | Chemistry | null |
Autumn, also known as fall, is one of the four temperate seasons on Earth. Outside the tropics, autumn marks the transition from summer to winter, in September (Northern Hemisphere) or March (Southern Hemisphere). Autumn is the season when the duration of daylight becomes noticeably shorter and the temperature cools co... | Autumn | Wikipedia | 364 | 3049 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autumn | Physical sciences | Seasons | null |
Under the traditional East Asian solar term system, autumn starts on or around 8 August and ends on or about 7 November. In Ireland, the autumn months according to the national meteorological service, Met Éireann, are September, October, and November. However, according to the Irish Calendar, which is based on ancient ... | Autumn | Wikipedia | 501 | 3049 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autumn | Physical sciences | Seasons | null |
During the 17th century, English settlers began emigrating to the new North American colonies, and took the English language with them. While the term fall gradually became nearly obsolete in Britain, it became the more common term in North America.
The name backend, a once common name for the season in Northern Engla... | Autumn | Wikipedia | 444 | 3049 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autumn | Physical sciences | Seasons | null |
Similar examples may be found in Irish poet W.B. Yeats' poem The Wild Swans at Coole where the maturing season that the poet observes symbolically represents his own ageing self. Like the natural world that he observes, he too has reached his prime and now must look forward to the inevitability of old age and death. Fr... | Autumn | Wikipedia | 484 | 3049 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autumn | Physical sciences | Seasons | null |
Television stations and networks, particularly in North America, traditionally begin their regular seasons in their autumn, with new series and new episodes of existing series debuting mostly during late September or early October (series that debut outside the autumn season are usually known as mid-season replacements... | Autumn | Wikipedia | 502 | 3049 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autumn | Physical sciences | Seasons | null |
Eastern Canada and New England are famous for their autumnal foliage, and this attracts major tourism (worth billions of US dollars) for the regions.
Views of autumn
Allegories of autumn in art | Autumn | Wikipedia | 39 | 3049 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autumn | Physical sciences | Seasons | null |
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Arcturus is the brightest star in the northern constellation of Boötes. With an apparent visual magnitude of −0.05, it is the fourth-brightest star in the night sky, and the brightest in the northern celestial hemisphere. The name Arcturus... | Arcturus | Wikipedia | 372 | 3072 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcturus | Physical sciences | Notable stars | null |
With an apparent visual magnitude of −0.05, Arcturus is the brightest star in the northern celestial hemisphere and the fourth-brightest star in the night sky, after Sirius (−1.46 apparent magnitude), Canopus (−0.72) and α Centauri (combined magnitude of −0.27). However, α Centauri AB is a binary star, whose components... | Arcturus | Wikipedia | 502 | 3072 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcturus | Physical sciences | Notable stars | null |
Based upon an annual parallax shift of 88.83 milliarcseconds, as measured by the Hipparcos satellite, Arcturus is from Earth. The parallax margin of error is 0.54 milliarcseconds, translating to a distance margin of error of ±. Because of its proximity, Arcturus has a high proper motion, two arcseconds a year, greater... | Arcturus | Wikipedia | 380 | 3072 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcturus | Physical sciences | Notable stars | null |
There have been suggestions that Arcturus might be a member of a binary system with a faint, cool companion, but no companion has been directly detected.
In the absence of a binary companion, the mass of Arcturus cannot be measured directly, but models suggest it is slightly greater than that of the Sun. Evolutionary m... | Arcturus | Wikipedia | 414 | 3072 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcturus | Physical sciences | Notable stars | null |
The spectrum shows a dramatic transition from emission lines in the ultraviolet to atomic absorption lines in the visible range and molecular absorption lines in the infrared. This is due to the optical depth of the atmosphere varying with wavelength. The spectrum shows very strong absorption in some molecular lines th... | Arcturus | Wikipedia | 416 | 3072 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcturus | Physical sciences | Notable stars | null |
In 1993, radial velocity measurements of Aldebaran, Arcturus and Pollux showed that Arcturus exhibited a long-period radial velocity oscillation, which could be interpreted as a substellar companion. This substellar object would be nearly 12 times the mass of Jupiter and be located roughly at the same orbital distance ... | Arcturus | Wikipedia | 448 | 3072 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcturus | Physical sciences | Notable stars | null |
In ancient Greek, the star is found in ancient astronomical literature, e.g. Hesiod's Work and Days, circa 700 BC, as well as Hipparchus's and Ptolemy's star catalogs. The folk-etymology connecting the star name with the bears (Greek: ἄρκτος, arktos) was probably invented much later. It fell out of use in favour of Ara... | Arcturus | Wikipedia | 478 | 3072 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcturus | Physical sciences | Notable stars | null |
The Wotjobaluk Koori people of southeastern Australia knew Arcturus as Marpean-kurrk, mother of Djuit (Antares) and another star in Boötes, Weet-kurrk (Muphrid). Its appearance in the north signified the arrival of the larvae of the wood ant (a food item) in spring. The beginning of summer was marked by the star's sett... | Arcturus | Wikipedia | 380 | 3072 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcturus | Physical sciences | Notable stars | null |
Arcturus had several other names that described its significance to indigenous Polynesians. In the Society Islands, Arcturus, called Ana-tahua-taata-metua-te-tupu-mavae ("a pillar to stand by"), was one of the ten "pillars of the sky", bright stars that represented the ten heavens of the Tahitian afterlife. In Hawaii, ... | Arcturus | Wikipedia | 484 | 3072 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcturus | Physical sciences | Notable stars | null |
The Kāraṇḍavyūha Sūtra, compiled at the end of the 4th century or beginning of the 5th century, names one of Avalokiteśvaras meditative absorptions as "The face of Arcturus".
One of the possible etymologies offered for the name "Arthur" assumes that it is derived from "Arcturus" and that the late 5th to early 6th-cent... | Arcturus | Wikipedia | 261 | 3072 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcturus | Physical sciences | Notable stars | null |
Antares is the brightest star in the constellation of Scorpius. It has the Bayer designation α Scorpii, which is Latinised to Alpha Scorpii. Often referred to as "the heart of the scorpion", Antares is flanked by σ Scorpii and τ Scorpii near the center of the constellation. Distinctly reddish when viewed with the naked... | Antares | Wikipedia | 377 | 3076 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antares | Physical sciences | Notable stars | Astronomy |
α Scorpii (Latinised to Alpha Scorpii) is the star's Bayer designation. Antares has the Flamsteed designation 21 Scorpii, as well as catalogue designations such as HR 6134 in the Bright Star Catalogue and HD 148478 in the Henry Draper Catalogue. As a prominent infrared source, it appears in the Two Micron All-Sky Surve... | Antares | Wikipedia | 465 | 3076 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antares | Physical sciences | Notable stars | Astronomy |
For two to three weeks on either side of November 30, Antares is not visible in the night sky from mid-northern latitudes, because it is near conjunction with the Sun. In higher northern latitudes, Antares is only visible low in the south in summertime. Higher than 64° northern latitude, the star does not rise at all.
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Antares is 4.57 degrees south of the ecliptic, one of four first magnitude stars within 6° of the ecliptic (the others are Spica, Regulus and Aldebaran), so it can be occulted by the Moon. The occultation of 31 July 2009 was visible in much of southern Asia and the Middle East. Every year around December 2 the Sun pass... | Antares | Wikipedia | 493 | 3076 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antares | Physical sciences | Notable stars | Astronomy |
Early measurements of the pair found them to be about apart in 1847–49, or apart in 1848. More modern observations consistently give separations around . The variations in the separation are often interpreted as evidence of orbital motion, but are more likely to be simply observational inaccuracies with very little t... | Antares | Wikipedia | 506 | 3076 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antares | Physical sciences | Notable stars | Astronomy |
Like most cool supergiants, Antares's size has much uncertainty due to the tenuous and translucent nature of the extended outer regions of the star. Defining an effective temperature is difficult due to spectral lines being generated at different depths in the atmosphere, and linear measurements produce different resul... | Antares | Wikipedia | 478 | 3076 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antares | Physical sciences | Notable stars | Astronomy |
Antares B
Antares B is a magnitude 5.5 blue-white main-sequence star of spectral type B2.5V; it also has numerous unusual spectral lines suggesting it has been polluted by matter ejected by Antares. It is assumed to be a relatively normal early-B main sequence star with a mass around , a temperature around , and a radi... | Antares | Wikipedia | 478 | 3076 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antares | Physical sciences | Notable stars | Astronomy |
In Persia, Antares was known as one of the four "royal stars". In India, it with σ Scorpii and τ Scorpii were Jyeshthā (the eldest or biggest, probably attributing its huge size), one of the nakshatra (Hindu lunar mansions).
The ancient Chinese called Antares 心宿二 (Xīnxiù'èr, "second star of the Heart"), because it was... | Antares | Wikipedia | 315 | 3076 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antares | Physical sciences | Notable stars | Astronomy |
Aldebaran () (Proto-Semitic *dVbr- “bee”) is a star located in the zodiac constellation of Taurus. It has the Bayer designation α Tauri, which is Latinized to Alpha Tauri and abbreviated Alpha Tau or α Tau. Aldebaran varies in brightness from an apparent visual magnitude 0.75 down to 0.95, making it the brightest star ... | Aldebaran | Wikipedia | 425 | 3077 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldebaran | Physical sciences | Notable stars | Astronomy |
Aldebaran and several nearby stars are included in double star catalogues such as the Washington Double Star Catalog as WDS 04359+1631 and the Aitken Double Star Catalogue as ADS 3321. It was included with an 11th-magnitude companion as a double star as H IV 66 in the Herschel Catalogue of Double Stars and Σ II 2 in th... | Aldebaran | Wikipedia | 464 | 3077 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldebaran | Physical sciences | Notable stars | Astronomy |
On 11 March AD 509, a lunar occultation of Aldebaran was observed in Athens, Greece. English astronomer Edmund Halley studied the timing of this event, and in 1718 concluded that Aldebaran must have changed position since that time, moving several minutes of arc further to the north. This, as well as observations of th... | Aldebaran | Wikipedia | 491 | 3077 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldebaran | Physical sciences | Notable stars | Astronomy |
Aldebaran was observed using an interferometer attached to the Hooker Telescope at the Mount Wilson Observatory in 1921 in order to measure its angular diameter, but it was not resolved in these observations.
The extensive history of observations of Aldebaran led to it being included in the list of 33 stars chosen as ... | Aldebaran | Wikipedia | 487 | 3077 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldebaran | Physical sciences | Notable stars | Astronomy |
The photosphere shows abundances of carbon, oxygen, and nitrogen that suggest the giant has gone through its first dredge-up stage—a normal step in the evolution of a star into a red giant during which material from deep within the star is brought up to the surface by convection. With its slow rotation, Aldebaran lacks... | Aldebaran | Wikipedia | 395 | 3077 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldebaran | Physical sciences | Notable stars | Astronomy |
Some surveys, for example Gaia Data Release 2, have indicated that Alpha Tauri B may have about the same proper motion and parallax as Aldebaran and thus may be a physical binary system. These measurements are difficult, since the dim B component appears so close to the bright primary star, and the margin of error is t... | Aldebaran | Wikipedia | 404 | 3077 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldebaran | Physical sciences | Notable stars | Astronomy |
In 2015 a study showed stable long-term evidence for both a planetary companion and stellar activity. An asteroseismic analysis of the residuals to the planet fit has determined that Aldebaran b has a minimum mass of Jupiter masses, and that when the star was on the main sequence it would have given this planet Earth-... | Aldebaran | Wikipedia | 407 | 3077 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldebaran | Physical sciences | Notable stars | Astronomy |
In Chinese, (), meaning , refers to an asterism consisting of Aldebaran, ε Tauri, δ3 Tauri, δ1 Tauri, γ Tauri, 71 Tauri and λ Tauri. Consequently, the Chinese name for Aldebaran itself is (), .
In Hawaiian, the star is named Kapuahi.
In Biblical Hebrew, עָשׁ (ʿāš) in Job 9:9 and עַ֫יִשׁ (ʿayiš) in Job 38:32 have be... | Aldebaran | Wikipedia | 475 | 3077 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldebaran | Physical sciences | Notable stars | Astronomy |
The Austrian chemist Carl Auer von Welsbach proposed the name aldebaranium (chemical symbol Ad) for a rare earth element that he (among others) had found. Today, it is called ytterbium (symbol Yb). | Aldebaran | Wikipedia | 51 | 3077 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldebaran | Physical sciences | Notable stars | Astronomy |
Altair is the brightest star in the constellation of Aquila and the twelfth-brightest star in the night sky. It has the Bayer designation Alpha Aquilae, which is Latinised from α Aquilae and abbreviated Alpha Aql or α Aql. Altair is an A-type main-sequence star with an apparent visual magnitude of 0.77 and is one of th... | Altair | Wikipedia | 404 | 3078 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altair | Physical sciences | Notable stars | Astronomy |
Altair is a type-A main-sequence star with about 1.8 times the mass of the Sun and 11 times its luminosity. It is thought to be a young star close to the zero age main sequence at about 100 million years old, although previous estimates gave an age closer to one billion years old. Altair rotates rapidly, with a rotati... | Altair | Wikipedia | 417 | 3078 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altair | Physical sciences | Notable stars | Astronomy |
Theory predicts that, owing to Altair's rapid rotation, its surface gravity and effective temperature should be lower at the equator, making the equator less luminous than the poles. This phenomenon, known as gravity darkening or the von Zeipel effect, was confirmed for Altair by measurements made by the Navy Precision... | Altair | Wikipedia | 509 | 3078 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altair | Physical sciences | Notable stars | Astronomy |
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