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18,702,001 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arsenic%20triiodide | Arsenic triiodide is the inorganic compound with the formula AsI3. It is an orange to dark red solid that readily sublimes. It is a pyramidal molecule that is useful for preparing organoarsenic compounds.
Preparation
It is prepared by a reaction of arsenic trichloride and potassium iodide:
AsCl3 + 3KI → AsI3 + ... | Arsenic triiodide | Chemistry | 231 |
1,530,070 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NT%20%28cassette%29 | NT (sometimes marketed under the name Scoopman) is a digital memo recording system introduced by Sony in 1992.
The NT system was introduced to compete with the Microcassette, introduced by Olympus, and the Mini-Cassette, by Philips.
Design
The system was an R-DAT based system which stored memos using helical scan o... | NT (cassette) | Engineering | 690 |
13,092,163 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reversible%20charge%20injection%20limit | For an electrode in a solution with a particular size and geometry, the reversible charge injection limit is the amount of charge that can move from the electrode to the surroundings without causing a chemical reaction that is irreversible.
References
Electrochemistry | Reversible charge injection limit | Chemistry | 52 |
37,401,198 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RV%20Rachel%20Carson%20%282008%29 | RV Rachel Carson is a research vessel owned and operated by the University of Maryland's Center for Environmental Science, named in honor of the marine biologist and writer Rachel Carson.
The 81-foot aluminum-hulled vessel is an extended and modified Challenger class fast research vessel, designed by marine architect ... | RV Rachel Carson (2008) | Environmental_science | 203 |
56,226,666 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mensacarcin | Mensacarcin is a highly oxygenated polyketide first isolated from soil-dwelling Streptomyces bottropensis bacteria.
The molecule is a secondary metabolite, and can be obtained in large amounts from its producing organism.
Due to its unique properties it is an important model for drug development against melanoma and ... | Mensacarcin | Chemistry | 545 |
50,689,963 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercy%20%28Overwatch%29 | Mercy is a character developed by Blizzard Entertainment for their Overwatch franchise. She was introduced at launch in their 2016 first-person hero shooter video game of the same name and again appeared in its 2022 sequel, Overwatch 2. Mercy has also featured in its related animated and literary media. Lucie Pohl voic... | Mercy (Overwatch) | Materials_science | 4,052 |
12,205,594 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gruber%20Prize%20in%20Neuroscience | The Gruber Prize in Neuroscience, established in 2004, is one of three international awards worth US$500,000 made by the Gruber Foundation, a non-profit organization based in Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. It is awarded annually to scientists for significant discoveries that have enhanced the comprehension ... | Gruber Prize in Neuroscience | Technology | 500 |
64,648,770 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20chemical%20databases | This is a list of websites that contain lists of chemicals, or databases of chemical information. There is further detail on the content of these and other resources in a Wikibook of information sources.
References
Databases
Chemistry | List of chemical databases | Chemistry | 44 |
780,852 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two%20Dogmas%20of%20Empiricism | "Two Dogmas of Empiricism" is a paper by analytic philosopher Willard Van Orman Quine published in 1951. According to University of Sydney professor of philosophy Peter Godfrey-Smith, this "paper [is] sometimes regarded as the most important in all of twentieth-century philosophy". The paper is an attack on two centra... | Two Dogmas of Empiricism | Mathematics | 3,299 |
9,947,160 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%20Architecture%20Network | Open Architecture Network was the world's first online open source community dedicated to improving global living conditions through innovative and sustainable design. It was developed by Architecture for Humanity and incorporated Creative Commons licensing within the project management tools.
History
Open Architectur... | Open Architecture Network | Engineering | 280 |
57,557,766 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zaltoprofen | Zaltoprofen (JAN; trade name Soleton) is a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) used as an analgesic, antipyretic, and anti-inflammatory agent. It is a selective COX-2 inhibitor and also inhibits bradykinin-induced pain responses without blocking bradykinin receptors.
It was approved for use in Japan in 1993.
... | Zaltoprofen | Chemistry | 100 |
2,101,244 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nylon%206 | Nylon 6 or polycaprolactam is a polymer, in particular semicrystalline polyamide. Unlike most other nylons, nylon 6 is not a condensation polymer, but instead is formed by ring-opening polymerization; this makes it a special case in the comparison between condensation and addition polymers. Its competition with nylon 6... | Nylon 6 | Physics,Chemistry | 1,063 |
6,033,694 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brasilsat%20B1 | Brasilsat B1 is a Brazilian communications satellite launched on August 10, 1994, by an Ariane rocket model 44LP at Guiana Space Centre which is located in Kourou, French Guiana.
History
It was constructed by the United States and Brazil and is classified as a second generation satellite. It is larger and more powerfu... | Brasilsat B1 | Astronomy | 446 |
1,434,061 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affinity%20chromatography | Affinity chromatography is a method of separating a biomolecule from a mixture, based on a highly specific macromolecular binding interaction between the biomolecule and another substance. The specific type of binding interaction depends on the biomolecule of interest; antigen and antibody, enzyme and substrate, recep... | Affinity chromatography | Chemistry,Biology | 3,416 |
38,026,362 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanita%20flavella | Amanita flavella is a species of mycorrhizal fungus from family Amanitaceae. It has a convex lemon-yellow coloured cap up to in diameter. They can also be yellowish-orange coloured and have crowded pale-yellow gills. The yellowish-white stipe is central and 9 cm tall; it is slightly bulbous, and enclosed into a volva.... | Amanita flavella | Biology,Environmental_science | 191 |
25,356,265 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar%20eclipse%20of%20December%2016%2C%202047 | A partial solar eclipse will occur at the Moon's ascending node of orbit between Monday, December 16 and Tuesday, December 17, 2047, with a magnitude of 0.8816. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth. A partia... | Solar eclipse of December 16, 2047 | Astronomy | 556 |
25,378,720 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isay%20reaction | The Isay reaction also known as Gabriel-Isay condensation is an organic reaction in which certain diaminopyrimidines are transformed into pterins by condensation with a 1,2-dicarbonyl compound, such as 2,3-butanedione. The reaction is named after Oskar Isay.
See also
List of organic reactions
References
Name reactio... | Isay reaction | Chemistry | 86 |
37,402,258 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20Appelquist | Thomas William Appelquist is a theoretical particle physicist who is the Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics at Yale University.
He received his bachelor's degree from Illinois Benedictine College and his Ph.D. in 1968 from Cornell University under Donald R. Yennie with thesis Parametric Representations of Renormalize... | Thomas Appelquist | Physics | 493 |
42,894,437 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014%20Khalilabad%20derailment | On 26 May 2014, an express train travelling from Gorakhpur town to Hisar collided with a stationary goods train at Chureb railway station in Khalilabad north India, killing at least 40 people and injuring another 150. Prime-minister-elect Narendra Modi expressed his condolences at the time, on Twitter.
References
Rai... | 2014 Khalilabad derailment | Technology | 111 |
37,663,218 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulrich%20P%C3%B6schl | Ulrich "Uli" Pöschl (9 October 1969) is an Austrian chemist who was appointed Director of the newly founded Department of Multiphase Chemistry at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Mainz, Germany on 1 October 2012.
Biography
Ulrich Pöschl studied chemistry at the Graz University of Technology in Austria and o... | Ulrich Pöschl | Chemistry | 844 |
9,732,609 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rawmill | A raw mill is the equipment used to grind raw materials into "rawmix" during the manufacture of cement. Rawmix is then fed to a cement kiln, which transforms it into clinker, which is then ground to make cement in the cement mill. The raw milling stage of the process effectively defines the chemistry (and therefore p... | Rawmill | Chemistry,Engineering | 3,358 |
26,600,666 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systematic%20Biology | Systematic Biology is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Society of Systematic Biologists. It covers the theory, principles, and methods of systematics as well as phylogeny, evolution, morphology, biogeography, paleontology, genetics, and the classification of all l... | Systematic Biology | Biology | 116 |
52,187,839 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC%20341 | NGC 341 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Cetus. It was discovered on October 21, 1881 by Édouard Stephan. It was described by Dreyer as "faint, pretty large, round, a little brighter middle, mottled but not resolved." It has a companion galaxy, PGC 3627, which is sometimes called NGC 341B. For this, reason, it h... | NGC 341 | Astronomy | 126 |
3,069,483 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic%20recrystallization | Dynamic recrystallization (DRX) is a type of recrystallization process, found within the fields of metallurgy and geology. In dynamic recrystallization, as opposed to static recrystallization, the nucleation and growth of new grains occurs during deformation rather than afterwards as part of a separate heat treatment. ... | Dynamic recrystallization | Chemistry,Materials_science,Engineering | 2,315 |
24,378,069 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C13H10N2 | {{DISPLAYTITLE:C13H10N2}}
The molecular formula C13H10N2 may refer to:
Aminoacridines
2-Aminoacridine
3-Aminoacridine
4-Aminoacridine
9-Aminoacridine
Diazodiphenylmethane | C13H10N2 | Chemistry | 64 |
32,687,542 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich%20Beck | Friedrich Hans Beck (16 February 1927 – 20 December 2008) was a German physicist. His research interests were focused on superconductivity, nuclear and elementary particle physics, relativistic quantum field theory, and late in his life, biophysics and theory of consciousness.
Early life and education
Beck was born in... | Friedrich Beck | Physics,Biology | 740 |
13,138,516 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General%20Motors%20Research%20Laboratories | General Motors Research Laboratories are the part of General Motors responsible for creation of the first known operating system (GM-NAA I/O) in 1955 and contributed to the first mechanical heart, the Dodrill-GMR, successfully used while performing open heart surgery.
See also
Multiple Console Time Sharing System
Ref... | General Motors Research Laboratories | Technology | 84 |
25,296,802 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symmetrical%20dimethylhydrazine | {{chembox
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15,226,281 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIST1H4C | Histone H4 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the HIST1H4C gene.
Function
Histones are basic nuclear proteins that are responsible for the nucleosome structure of the chromosomal fiber in eukaryotes. Two molecules of each of the four core histones (H2A, H2B, H3, and H4) form an octamer, around which approxima... | HIST1H4C | Chemistry | 200 |
30,240,076 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cortical%20pseudolaminar%20necrosis | Cortical pseudolaminar necrosis, also known as cortical laminar necrosis and simply laminar necrosis, is the death of cells in the cerebral cortex of the brain in a band-like pattern, with a relative preservation of cells immediately adjacent to the meninges.
It is seen in the context of cerebral hypoxic-ischemic insu... | Cortical pseudolaminar necrosis | Biology | 291 |
22,146,365 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid%20chalk | The term liquid chalk, or sharkchalk, refers to several different kinds of liquified chalk including liquid-chalk marking pens (with water-soluble ink), liquid-chalk mixtures (for athletic use: rock climbing, weightlifting, gymnastics), and liquid-chalk hobby-craft paints made of cornstarch and food coloring (some with... | Liquid chalk | Chemistry | 338 |
15,666,340 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consolidated%20Safety-Valve%20Co.%20v.%20Crosby%20Steam%20Gauge%20%26%20Valve%20Co. | Consolidated Safety-Valve Co. v. Crosby Steam Gauge & Valve Co., 113 U.S. 157 (1885), was a patent case to determine validity of patent No. 58,294, granted to George W. Richardson September 25, 1866, for an improvement in steam safety valves.
Technical background
Richardson was the first person who made a safety valve... | Consolidated Safety-Valve Co. v. Crosby Steam Gauge & Valve Co. | Physics,Engineering | 623 |
2,054,964 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coding%20by%20exception | Coding by exception is an accidental complexity in a software system in which the program handles specific errors that arise with unique exceptions. When an issue arises in a software system, an error is raised tracing the issue back to where it was caught and then where that problem came from, if applicable. Exception... | Coding by exception | Technology | 163 |
9,797,288 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thrackle | A thrackle is an embedding of a graph in the plane in which each edge is a Jordan arc and every pair of edges meet exactly once. Edges may either meet at a common endpoint, or, if they have no endpoints in common, at a point in their interiors. In the latter case, they must cross at their intersection point: the inte... | Thrackle | Mathematics | 1,396 |
864,240 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programming%20Ruby | Programming Ruby is a book about the Ruby programming language by Dave Thomas and Andrew Hunt, authors of The Pragmatic Programmer. In the Ruby community, it is commonly known as "The PickAxe" because of the pickaxe on the cover. The book has helped Ruby to spread outside Japan.
The complete first edition of this book... | Programming Ruby | Technology | 237 |
25,232,831 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North%20American%20Dryopteris%20hybrid%20complex | Hybridization and polyploidy are common phenomena in ferns, and the genus Dryopteris is known to be one of the most freely-hybridizing fern genera. North American botanists recognized early that there were close relationships between many of the species of Dryopteris on the continent, and that these relationships refle... | North American Dryopteris hybrid complex | Biology | 533 |
841,792 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetic%20art | Kinetic art is art from any medium that contains movement perceivable by the viewer or that depends on motion for its effects. Canvas paintings that extend the viewer's perspective of the artwork and incorporate multidimensional movement are the earliest examples of kinetic art. More pertinently speaking, kinetic art i... | Kinetic art | Physics | 5,083 |
804,218 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronomical%20clock | An astronomical clock, horologium, or orloj is a clock with special mechanisms and dials to display astronomical information, such as the relative positions of the Sun, Moon, zodiacal constellations, and sometimes major planets.
Definition
The term is loosely used to refer to any clock that shows, in addition to the... | Astronomical clock | Astronomy | 7,474 |
5,490,892 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/18D/Perrine%E2%80%93Mrkos | 18D/Perrine–Mrkos is a periodic comet in the Solar System, originally discovered by the American-Argentine astronomer Charles Dillon Perrine (Lick Observatory, California, United States) on December 9, 1896. For some time it was thought to be a fragment of Biela's Comet.
It was considered lost after the 1909 appearan... | 18D/Perrine–Mrkos | Astronomy | 343 |
63,863,048 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proximity%20labeling | Enzyme-catalyzed proximity labeling (PL), also known as proximity-based labeling, is a laboratory technique that labels biomolecules, usually proteins or RNA, proximal to a protein of interest. By creating a gene fusion in a living cell between the protein of interest and an engineered labeling enzyme, biomolecules spa... | Proximity labeling | Chemistry,Biology | 1,255 |
2,902,863 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/51%20Arietis | 51 Arietis is a star in the northern constellation of Aries. 51 Arietis is the Flamsteed designation. It is a dim, yellow-hued star – a challenge to view with the naked eye, having an apparent visual magnitude of 6.6. Based upon parallax measurements, the star is located at an estimated distance of from the Sun. It is... | 51 Arietis | Astronomy | 288 |
36,443,304 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clavulina%20puiggarii | Clavulina puiggarii is a species of coral fungus in the family Clavulinaceae. It is found in Australia and Brazil.
References
External links
Fungi described in 1881
Fungi of Australia
Fungi of South America
puiggarii
Taxa named by Carlo Luigi Spegazzini
Fungus species | Clavulina puiggarii | Biology | 61 |
3,597,591 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad%20Reichenhall%20Ice%20Rink | The Bad Reichenhall ice skating and swimming hall was a combined ice skating and swimming hall in the town of Bad Reichenhall, Bavaria, Germany, near the Austrian border. It was built between 1971 and 1973 by the city of Bad Reichenhall based on a design by the architect Hans Jürgen Schmidt-Schicketanz. At approximatel... | Bad Reichenhall Ice Rink | Engineering | 3,159 |
48,862,532 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian%20Hartinger | Christian G. Hartinger (born 1974) is an Austrian-born New Zealand bioinorganic chemist known for his work in metal-based anticancer drugs. In 2022 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi.
Scientific career
Hartinger studied chemistry at the University of Vienna, earning his MSc in 1999 and his PhD i... | Christian Hartinger | Chemistry | 1,272 |
36,145,695 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangular%20network%20coding | In coding theory, triangular network coding (TNC) is a non-linear network coding based packet coding scheme introduced by .
Previously, packet coding for network coding was done using linear network coding (LNC). The drawback of LNC over large finite field is that it resulted in high encoding and decoding computational... | Triangular network coding | Mathematics,Technology,Engineering | 396 |
1,046,120 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canonicalization | In computer science, canonicalization (sometimes standardization or normalization) is a process for converting data that has more than one possible representation into a "standard", "normal", or canonical form. This can be done to compare different representations for equivalence, to count the number of distinct data s... | Canonicalization | Technology | 1,742 |
3,980,048 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational%20scientist | A computational scientist is a person skilled in scientific computing. This person is usually a scientist, a statistician, an applied mathematician, or an engineer who applies high-performance computing and sometimes cloud computing in different ways to advance the state-of-the-art in their respective applied disciplin... | Computational scientist | Mathematics,Technology | 230 |
29,834,362 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biofunctionalisation | In the field of bioengineering, biofunctionalisation (or biofunctionalization) is the modification of a material to have biological function and/or stimulus, whether permanent or temporary, while at the same time being biologically compatible.
Various types of medical implants are designed to biofunctionalize so that... | Biofunctionalisation | Biology | 88 |
4,498,471 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groundwater%20sapping | Groundwater sapping is a geomorphic erosion process that results in the headward migration of channels in response to near constant fluid discharge at a fixed point. The consistent flow of water displaces fine sediments which physically and chemically weathers rocks. Valleys that appear to have been created by groundwa... | Groundwater sapping | Environmental_science | 959 |
102,219 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net%20protein%20utilization | The net protein utilization (NPU) is the percentage of ingested nitrogen that is retained in the body.
Rating
It is used to determine the nutritional efficiency of protein in the diet, that is, it is used as a measure of "protein quality" for human nutritional purposes.
As a value, NPU can range from 0 to 1 (or 100),... | Net protein utilization | Chemistry | 401 |
966,493 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain%20tapir | The mountain tapir, also known as the Andean tapir or woolly tapir (Tapirus pinchaque), is the smallest of the four widely recognized species of tapir. It is found only in certain portions of the Andean Mountain Range in northwestern South America. As such, it is the only tapir species to live outside of tropical rainf... | Mountain tapir | Biology | 1,859 |
57,822,802 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parthenin | Parthenin is a chemical compound classified as a sesquiterpene lactone. It has been isolated from Parthenium hysterophorus.
It is genotoxic, allergenic, and an irritant. Parthenin is believed to be responsible for the dermatitis caused by Parthenium hysterophorus.
References
sesquiterpene lactones
Vinylidene compo... | Parthenin | Chemistry | 92 |
74,391,075 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charenton%20Metro-Viaduct | The Charenton Metro-Viaduct is a railroad girder bridge located in the French department of Val-de-Marne in the Île-de-France region. It links the communes of Charenton-le-Pont and Maisons-Alfort, crossing the Marne river, as well as the A4 autoroute and 103 departmental road. First put into operation in 1970, the viad... | Charenton Metro-Viaduct | Technology,Engineering | 951 |
72,082,890 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TOI-1136 | TOI-1136 is a G-type main-sequence star away in the constellation Draco. It is slightly smaller than the Sun and similar in mass and temperature, but is much younger, with an age of about 700 million years. It hosts a system of at least six, and possibly seven, exoplanets.
Planetary system
TOI-1136 was discovered to ... | TOI-1136 | Astronomy | 302 |
21,289,989 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaerating%20feed%20tank | A deaerating feed tank (DFT), often found in steam plants that propel ships, is located after the main condensate pump and before the main feed booster pump.
Purpose
It has these three purposes:
Remove dissolved oxygen (“air”) from the condensate
Pre-heat the feedwater
Provide a storage/surge volume
Based on the ... | Deaerating feed tank | Physics | 723 |
7,649,609 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubens%20tube | A Rubens tube, also known as a standing wave flame tube, or simply flame tube, is a physics apparatus for demonstrating acoustic standing waves in a tube. Invented by German physicist Heinrich Rubens in 1905, it graphically shows the relationship between sound waves and sound pressure, as a primitive oscilloscope. T... | Rubens tube | Physics,Chemistry | 1,378 |
72,465,140 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GG%20Lupi | GG Lupi is an eclipsing binary star in the southern constellation of Lupus. Most of the time it is a magnitude 5.6 object, making it faintly visible to the naked eye, but during the primary eclipse its brightness falls to 6.1. GG Lupi is located 1/2 degree (one full moon diameter) west of the 3rd magnitude star Delta L... | GG Lupi | Astronomy | 249 |
9,669,620 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolis%20%28architecture%20magazine%29 | Metropolis is an internationally recognized design and architecture–concentrated magazine with a strong focus on ethics, innovation and sustainability in the creative sector. The magazine was established in 1981 by Horace Havemeyer III of Bellerophon Publications, Inc alongside his wife Eugenie Cowan Havemeyer and is b... | Metropolis (architecture magazine) | Engineering | 1,697 |
29,564,581 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircraft%20design%20process | The aircraft design process is a loosely defined method used to balance many competing and demanding requirements to produce an aircraft that is strong, lightweight, economical and can carry an adequate payload while being sufficiently reliable to safely fly for the design life of the aircraft. Similar to, but more exa... | Aircraft design process | Chemistry,Engineering | 2,877 |
49,358,794 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrhenia%20epichysium | Arrhenia epichysium is a species of agaric fungus in the family Hygrophoraceae. It is found in Asia, Europe, and North America. The fruit body has small brown to dark gray caps measuring in diameter. The cap color changes to light gray to tan when it is dry. Gills are narrow and thin, placed together closely, and decu... | Arrhenia epichysium | Biology | 141 |
45,698,778 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodecaborate | The dodecaborate(12) anion, [B12H12]2−, is a borane with an icosahedral arrangement of 12 boron atoms, with each boron atom being attached to a hydrogen atom. Its symmetry is classified by the molecular point group Ih.
Synthesis and reactions
The existence of the dodecaborate(12) anion, [B12H12]2−, was predicted by H.... | Dodecaborate | Physics,Chemistry | 782 |
11,436,500 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cercospora%20minuta | Cercospora minuta is a fungal plant pathogen.
References
minuta
Fungal plant pathogens and diseases
Fungi described in 1876
Fungus species | Cercospora minuta | Biology | 29 |
5,074,861 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorption | Sorption is a physical and chemical process by which one substance becomes attached to another. Specific cases of sorption are treated in the following articles:
Absorption "the incorporation of a substance in one state into another of a different state" (e.g., liquids being absorbed by a solid or gases being absorbed... | Sorption | Physics,Chemistry | 191 |
3,116,570 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La%20Superba | La Superba (Y CVn, Y Canum Venaticorum) is a strikingly red giant star in the constellation Canes Venatici. It is faintly visible to the naked eye, and the red colour is very obvious in binoculars. It is a carbon star and semiregular variable.
Visibility
La Superba is a semiregular variable star, varying by about a... | La Superba | Astronomy | 922 |
24,784,880 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committed%20step | In biochemistry, the committed step (also known as the first committed step) is an effectively irreversible, enzyme-catalyzed reaction that occurs at a branch point during the biosynthesis of some molecules.
As the name implies, after this step, the molecules are "committed" to the pathway and will ultimately end up in... | Committed step | Chemistry,Biology | 593 |
1,529,560 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LEGRI | The Low Energy Gamma-Ray Imager (LEGRI) was a payload for the first mission of the Spanish MINISAT platform, and active from 1997 to 2002. The objective of LEGRI was to demonstrate the viability of HgI2 detectors for space astronomy, providing imaging and spectroscopical capabilities in the 10-100 KeV range.
LEGRI wa... | LEGRI | Astronomy | 205 |
50,979,660 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kimble%20%28app%29 | Kimble is a cloud-based PSA software application, also known as Kimble PSA.
History
Kimble Applications Limited was founded in 2010 by Sean Hoban, Mark Robinson, and David Scott. The company is headquartered in London, England with other offices in the United States including Boston, Park City, Chicago, and Atlanta.
... | Kimble (app) | Engineering | 202 |
31,671,822 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spreeta | Spreeta is an electro-optical device utilizing surface plasmon resonance to detect small changes in refractive index of liquids. The Spreeta device was developed by Texas Instruments, Inc. in the 1990s. Device design incorporates a light-emitting diode (LED) illuminating a thin metal film (usually gold) in the Kretch... | Spreeta | Physics,Chemistry,Materials_science,Technology,Engineering | 250 |
34,485,760 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dermatologic%20and%20Ophthalmic%20Drugs%20Advisory%20Committee | The Dermatologic And Ophthalmic Drugs Advisory Committee (DODAC) receives requests for technical and clinical evaluation of new drugs by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The committee, consisting of members from academic and clinical dermatology, ophthalmology, biostatistics, the general public, and the ph... | Dermatologic and Ophthalmic Drugs Advisory Committee | Chemistry,Biology | 233 |
63,513,617 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneering%20Women%20in%20American%20Mathematics | Pioneering Women in American Mathematics: The Pre-1940 PhD's is a book on women in mathematics. It was written by Judy Green and Jeanne LaDuke, based on a long study beginning in 1978, and was published in 2009 by the American Mathematical Society and London Mathematical Society as volume 34 in their joint History of M... | Pioneering Women in American Mathematics | Technology | 827 |
6,044,113 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occulting%20disk | An occulting disk is a small disk placed centrally in the eyepiece of a telescope or at its focal point, to block the view of a bright object so that fainter objects can be seen more easily.
The coronagraph, at its simplest, is an occulting disk in the focal plane of a telescope, or in front of the entrance aperture, ... | Occulting disk | Materials_science,Astronomy,Technology,Engineering | 147 |
37,121,910 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambda%20Hydrae | λ Hydrae, Latinised as Lambda Hydrae, is a spectroscopic binary star in the constellation Hydra. Its apparent magnitude is 3.61 Located around distant. The spiral galaxy NGC 3145 is only away to the southwest.
The primary is an orange giant of spectral type K0IIICN+1, a star that has used up its core hydrogen, left... | Lambda Hydrae | Astronomy | 176 |
1,572,728 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rho%20Coronae%20Borealis | Rho Coronae Borealis (ρ CrB, ρ Coronae Borealis) is a yellow dwarf star away in the constellation of Corona Borealis. The star is thought to be similar to the Sun with nearly the same mass, radius, and luminosity. It is orbited by four known exoplanets.
Stellar properties
Rho Coronae Borealis is a yellow main-seque... | Rho Coronae Borealis | Astronomy | 707 |
19,336,369 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web%20threat | A web threat is any threat that uses the World Wide Web to facilitate cybercrime. Web threats use multiple types of malware and fraud, all of which utilize HTTP or HTTPS protocols, but may also employ other protocols and components, such as links in email or IM, or malware attachments or on servers that access the We... | Web threat | Technology | 1,236 |
11,437,573 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cladosporium%20cucumerinum | Cladosporium cucumerinum is a fungal plant pathogen that affects cucumbers.
References
cucumerinum
Fungal plant pathogens and diseases
Vegetable diseases
Fungi described in 1889
Fungus species | Cladosporium cucumerinum | Biology | 40 |
320,056 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrex | Pyrex (trademarked as PYREX and pyrex) is a brand introduced by Corning Inc. in 1915, initially for a line of clear, low-thermal-expansion borosilicate glass used for laboratory glassware and kitchenware. It was later expanded in the 1930s to include kitchenware products made of soda–lime glass and other materials. Its... | Pyrex | Physics | 1,788 |
5,260,471 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal%20tracer | A signal tracer is a piece of electronic test equipment used to troubleshoot radio and other electronic circuitry.
Usually a very simple device, it normally provides an amplifier, and a loudspeaker, often battery-powered and packaged into a small, hand-held test probe. An optional diode detector is usually also provid... | Signal tracer | Technology,Engineering | 286 |
71,759,775 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhopalophora%20clavispora | Rhopalophora () is a genus of lichen-like fungus in the family Dactylosporaceae. It contains the sole species R. clavispora, previously belonging to the genus Phialophora but redescribed in 2016 to compose this monotypic genus.
Description
Members of Rhopalophora are lignicolous fungi of mycelium made of hyaline or pi... | Rhopalophora clavispora | Biology | 358 |
44,597,365 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5356%20aluminium%20alloy | 5356 aluminium alloy is an alloy in the wrought aluminium-magnesium family (5000 or 5xxx series). Unlike most aluminium-magnesium alloys, it is primarily used as welding filler. It is one of the most popular aluminium filler alloys, alongside 4043. It possesses relatively high strength, but at the expense of being more... | 5356 aluminium alloy | Chemistry | 117 |
10,575,017 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC%207662 | NGC 7662 is a planetary nebula located in the northern constellation Andromeda. It is known as the Blue Snowball Nebula, Snowball Nebula, and Caldwell 22. This nebula was discovered October 6, 1784 by the German-born English astronomer William Herschel. In the New General Catalogue it is described as a "magnificent pla... | NGC 7662 | Astronomy | 468 |
3,859,080 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TSQ | 6-Methoxy-(8-p-toluenesulfonamido)quinoline (TSQ) is one of the most efficient fluorescent stains for zinc(II). It was introduced by Soviet biochemists Toroptsev and Eshchenko in the early 1970s. The popularity of TSQ as physiological stain rose after seminal works by Christopher Frederickson two decades later. TSQ for... | TSQ | Chemistry,Biology | 169 |
11,466,157 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uromyces%20apiosporus | Uromyces apiosporus is a fungal species and plant pathogen infecting Primula.
Including Primula minima in New Zealand.
References
External links
Index Fungorum
USDA ARS Fungal Database
Fungal plant pathogens and diseases
Ornamental plant pathogens and diseases
apiosporus
Fungi described in 1873
Fungus species | Uromyces apiosporus | Biology | 67 |
16,849,636 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RNF5P1 | Ring finger protein 5 pseudogene 1, also known as RNF5P1, is a human gene.
References
Further reading
RING finger proteins
Pseudogenes | RNF5P1 | Chemistry | 34 |
33,454,300 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiaomi | Xiaomi Corporation (; ), commonly known as Xiaomi, is a Chinese designer and manufacturer of consumer electronics and related software, home appliances, automobiles and household hardware, with headquarters in Beijing, China. It is the second-largest manufacturer of smartphones in the world, behind Samsung, most of whi... | Xiaomi | Technology | 5,902 |
1,359,463 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dickey%E2%80%93Wicker%20Amendment | The Dickey–Wicker Amendment is the name of an appropriation bill rider attached to a bill passed by United States Congress in 1995, and signed by former President Bill Clinton, which prohibits the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) from using appropriated funds for the creation of human embryos... | Dickey–Wicker Amendment | Technology,Engineering,Biology | 1,174 |
5,949,507 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI%20device%20numbers | In electric power systems and industrial automation, ANSI Device Numbers can be used to identify equipment and devices in a system such as relays, circuit breakers, or instruments. The device numbers are enumerated in ANSI/IEEE Standard C37.2 Standard for Electrical Power System Device Function Numbers, Acronyms, and C... | ANSI device numbers | Technology,Engineering | 2,620 |
26,848,768 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurocode%204%3A%20Design%20of%20composite%20steel%20and%20concrete%20structures | In the Eurocode series of European standards (EN) related to construction, Eurocode 4: Design of composite steel and concrete structures (abbreviated EN 1994 or, informally, EC 4) describes how to design of composite structures, using the limit state design philosophy. It was approved by the European Committee for Sta... | Eurocode 4: Design of composite steel and concrete structures | Engineering | 502 |
38,174,746 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cam%20and%20groove | A cam and groove coupling, also called a camlock fitting, is a form of hose coupling. This kind of coupling is popular because it is a simple and reliable means of connecting and disconnecting hoses quickly and without tools.
Standards
Traditionally manufactured to US Military Specification MIL-C-27487, this specific... | Cam and groove | Physics,Engineering | 881 |
14,469,908 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rural%20internet | Rural Internet describes the characteristics of Internet service in rural areas (also referred to as "the country" or "countryside"), which are settled places outside towns and cities. Inhabitants live in villages, hamlets, on farms and in other isolated houses. Mountains and other terrain can impede rural Internet acc... | Rural internet | Technology | 2,501 |
37,583 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wine%20%28software%29 | Wine is a free and open-source compatibility layer to allow application software and computer games developed for Microsoft Windows to run on Unix-like operating systems. Developers can compile Windows applications against WineLib to help port them to Unix-like systems. Wine is predominantly written using black-box tes... | Wine (software) | Technology | 6,122 |
44,687,845 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas%20giant | A gas giant is a giant planet composed mainly of hydrogen and helium. Jupiter and Saturn are the gas giants of the Solar System. The term "gas giant" was originally synonymous with "giant planet". However, in the 1990s, it became known that Uranus and Neptune are really a distinct class of giant planets, being composed... | Gas giant | Astronomy | 1,469 |
6,243,353 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signaling%20compression | For data compression, signaling compression, or SigComp, is a compression method designed especially for compression of text-based communication data as SIP or RTSP. SigComp had originally been defined in RFC 3320 and was later updated with RFC 4896. A Negative Acknowledgement Mechanism for Signaling Compression is def... | Signaling compression | Technology,Engineering | 545 |
63,352,392 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Target%20selection | Target selection is the process by which axons (nerve fibres) selectively target other cells for synapse formation. Synapses are structures which enable electrical or chemical signals to pass between nerves. While the mechanisms governing target specificity remain incompletely understood, it has been shown in many orga... | Target selection | Biology | 1,371 |
18,436,744 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrik%20I.%20Christensen | Henrik Iskov Christensen (born July 16, 1962 in Frederikshavn, Denmark) is a Danish roboticist and Professor of Computer Science at Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering. He is also the Director of the Contextual Robotics Institute at UC San Diego.
Prior to UC San ... | Henrik I. Christensen | Engineering | 897 |
42,852 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio%20frequency | Radio frequency (RF) is the oscillation rate of an alternating electric current or voltage or of a magnetic, electric or electromagnetic field or mechanical system in the frequency range from around to around . This is roughly between the upper limit of audio frequencies and the lower limit of infrared frequencies, an... | Radio frequency | Physics,Technology,Engineering | 1,673 |
26,451,167 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phosphinidene | Phosphinidenes (IUPAC: phosphanylidenes, formerly phosphinediyls) are low-valent phosphorus compounds analogous to carbenes and nitrenes, having the general structure RP. The parent phosphinidine has the formula PH. More common are the organic analogues where R = alkyl or aryl. In these compounds phosphorus has only ... | Phosphinidene | Chemistry | 2,085 |
38,707,040 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truncated%20order-7%20square%20tiling | In geometry, the truncated order-7 square tiling is a uniform tiling of the hyperbolic plane. It has Schläfli symbol of t0,1{4,7}.
Related polyhedra and tiling
References
John H. Conway, Heidi Burgiel, Chaim Goodman-Strauss, The Symmetries of Things 2008, (Chapter 19, The Hyperbolic Archimedean Tessellations)
See ... | Truncated order-7 square tiling | Physics | 157 |
16,472,194 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attalus%20of%20Rhodes | Attalus of Rhodes () was an ancient Greek grammarian, astronomer, and mathematician, who lived in Rhodes in the 2nd century BC, and was a contemporary of Hipparchus. He wrote a commentary on the Phaenomena of Aratus. Although this work is lost, Hipparchus cites him in his Commentary on the Phaenomena of Eudoxus and Ara... | Attalus of Rhodes | Astronomy | 216 |
25,213,018 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Days%20payable%20outstanding | Days payable outstanding (DPO) is an efficiency ratio that measures the average number of days a company takes to pay its suppliers.
The formula for DPO is:
where ending A/P is the accounts payable balance at the end of the accounting period being considered and Purchase/day is calculated by dividing the total cost o... | Days payable outstanding | Mathematics | 311 |
36,359,521 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peziza%20phyllogena | Peziza phyllogena, commonly known as the common brown cup or the pig-ear cup, is a species of fungus in the family Pezizaceae. A saprobic species, the fungus produces brownish, cup-shaped fruit bodies that grow singly or in clusters on either soil or well-rotted wood. It is found in Europe, North America, and Iceland, ... | Peziza phyllogena | Biology | 559 |
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