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20,937,486 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%202007%20suicide%20bombings%20in%20Iraq | This article is a list of suicide bombings during 2007 in Iraq.
January 8: A suicide truck bomber attacked a checkpoint in Ramadi killing two policemen.
January 10: Two suicide bombers attacked separately in Tal Afar killing five people and wounding 15 others.
January 15: A suicide bomber attacked an office of the ... | List of 2007 suicide bombings in Iraq | Chemistry | 9,385 |
58,800,759 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzanne%20Blum | Suzanne A. Blum is an American professor of chemistry at the University of California, Irvine. Blum works on mechanistic chemistry, most recently focusing on borylation reactions and the development of single-molecule and single-particle fluorescence microscopy to study organic chemistry and catalysis. She received the... | Suzanne Blum | Chemistry | 534 |
3,247,560 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII%20stereogram |
ASCII stereograms are a form of ASCII art based on stereograms to produce the optical illusion of a three-dimensional image by crossing the eyes appropriately using a single image or a pair of images next to each other.
To obtain the 3D effect (in Figure 1 for instance), it is necessary for the viewer to diverge thei... | ASCII stereogram | Physics | 1,760 |
11,127,545 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microdochium%20bolleyi | Microdochium bolleyi is a fungal plant pathogen that causes root rot in flax and wheat.
References
External links
Index Fungorum
USDA ARS Fungal Database
Fungal plant pathogens and diseases
Wheat diseases
Xylariales
Fungus species
Fungi described in 1957 | Microdochium bolleyi | Biology | 54 |
4,474,492 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intraspecific%20antagonism | Intraspecific antagonism means a disharmonious or antagonistic interaction between two individuals of the same species. As such, it could be a sociological term, but was actually coined by Alan Rayner and Norman Todd working at Exeter University in the late 1970s, to characterise a particular kind of zone line formed b... | Intraspecific antagonism | Biology | 598 |
77,825,222 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wetland%20virus | Wetland virus or WELV is a tick borne Orthonairovirus which can infect humans. It can produce fever, headache, dizziness, malaise, arthritis and less commonly petechiae, localized lymphadenopathy. Complications may include neurological symptoms.
Virology
The Wetland virus orthonairovirus (WELV) is a member of the gen... | Wetland virus | Biology | 362 |
23,520,833 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene%20signature | A gene signature or gene expression signature is a single or combined group of genes in a cell with a uniquely characteristic pattern of gene expression that occurs as a result of an altered or unaltered biological process or pathogenic medical condition. This is not to be confused with the concept of gene expression p... | Gene signature | Biology | 1,094 |
4,393,287 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M109%20Group | The M109 Group (also known as the NGC 3992 Group or Ursa Major cloud) is a group of galaxies about 55 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major. The group is named after the brightest galaxy within the group, the spiral galaxy M109.
Members
The table below lists galaxies that have been consistently id... | M109 Group | Astronomy | 314 |
73,119,378 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MT%20Pacific%20Cobalt | MT Pacific Cobalt is a Singaporean oil tanker built in 2020 and owned by Eastern Pacific Shipping. It is one of the first and largest ships to be installed with an onboard filtration and carbon capture system.
Description
Pacific Cobalt is a oil and chemical tanker with an overall length of . It is wide and has an ... | MT Pacific Cobalt | Engineering | 163 |
14,183,897 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benesi%E2%80%93Hildebrand%20method | The Benesi–Hildebrand method is a mathematical approach used in physical chemistry for the determination of the equilibrium constant K and stoichiometry of non-bonding interactions. This method has been typically applied to reaction equilibria that form one-to-one complexes, such as charge-transfer complexes and host–g... | Benesi–Hildebrand method | Physics,Chemistry | 1,314 |
692,731 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American%20Association%20of%20University%20Women | The American Association of University Women (AAUW), officially founded in 1881, is a non-profit organization that advances equity for women and girls through advocacy, education, and research. The organization has a nationwide network of 170,000 members and supporters, 1,000 local branches, and 800 college and univers... | American Association of University Women | Technology | 2,008 |
21,053,569 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow%20fever%20vaccine | Yellow fever vaccine is a vaccine that protects against yellow fever. Yellow fever is a viral infection that occurs in Africa and South America. Most people begin to develop immunity within ten days of vaccination and 99% are protected within one month, and this appears to be lifelong. The vaccine can be used to contr... | Yellow fever vaccine | Biology | 2,773 |
34,476,728 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We%20Can%20Do%20It%21 | "We Can Do It!" is an American World War II wartime poster produced by J. Howard Miller in 1943 for Westinghouse Electric as an inspirational image to boost female worker morale.
The poster was little seen during World War II. It was rediscovered in the early 1980s and widely reproduced in many forms, often mistakenly... | We Can Do It! | Biology | 3,205 |
52,266,363 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wave%20Energy%20Scotland | Wave Energy Scotland (WES) is a technology development body set up by the Scottish Government to facilitate the development of wave energy in Scotland. It was set up in 2015 and is a subsidiary of Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) based in Inverness.
WES has managed numerous projects resulting from pre-commercia... | Wave Energy Scotland | Engineering | 2,090 |
65,612,920 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom%20on%20the%20Net | Freedom on the Net is an annual report providing analytical reports and numerical ratings regarding the state of Internet freedom for countries worldwide, published by the American non-profit research and advocacy group Freedom House. The countries surveyed represent a sample with a broad range of geographical diversit... | Freedom on the Net | Technology | 623 |
9,002,628 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robbins%20pentagon | In geometry, a Robbins pentagon is a cyclic pentagon whose side lengths and area are all rational numbers.
History
Robbins pentagons were named by after David P. Robbins, who had previously given a formula for the area of a cyclic pentagon as a function of its edge lengths. Buchholz and MacDougall chose this name by ... | Robbins pentagon | Mathematics | 342 |
77,602,852 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20star%20systems%20within%2095%E2%80%93100%20light-years | This is a list of star systems within 95–100 light years of Earth.
See also
List of nearest stars
List of star systems within 90–95 light-years
List of star systems within 100–150 light-years
References
Lists of stars
Star systems
Lists by distance | List of star systems within 95–100 light-years | Physics,Astronomy | 55 |
992,586 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC%20381 | NGC 381 is an open cluster of stars in the northern constellation of Cassiopeia, located at a distance of approximately from the Sun. Credit for the discovery of this cluster was given to Caroline Herschel by her brother William in 1787, although she may never have actually seen it.
This is a Trumpler class cluster ... | NGC 381 | Astronomy | 235 |
965,817 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center%20tap | In electronics, a center tap (CT) is a contact made to a point halfway along a winding of a transformer or inductor, or along the element of a resistor or a potentiometer.
Taps are sometimes used on inductors for the coupling of signals, and may not necessarily be at the half-way point, but rather, closer to one end. ... | Center tap | Engineering | 1,046 |
14,293,466 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tin%20cry | Tin cry is the characteristic sound heard when a bar made of tin is bent. Variously described as a "screaming" or "crackling" sound, the effect is caused by the crystal twinning in the metal. The sound is not particularly loud, despite terms like "crying" and "screaming". It is very noticeable when a hot-dip tin coate... | Tin cry | Materials_science,Engineering | 225 |
51,937,029 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oilfield%20scale%20inhibition | Oilfield scale inhibition is the process of preventing the formation of scale from blocking or hindering fluid flow through pipelines, valves, and pumps used in oil production and processing. Scale inhibitors (SIs) are a class of specialty chemicals that are used to slow or prevent scaling in water systems. Oilfield sc... | Oilfield scale inhibition | Chemistry | 2,721 |
30,700,069 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto%20Redlich | Otto Redlich (November 4, 1896 – August 14, 1978) was an Austrian physical chemist who is best known for his development of equations of state like the Redlich-Kwong equation. Redlich also made numerous other contributions to science. He won the Haitinger Prize of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in 1932.
Biography
Re... | Otto Redlich | Physics,Chemistry | 482 |
13,222,629 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADP-ribosylation | ADP-ribosylation is the addition of one or more ADP-ribose moieties to a protein. It is a reversible post-translational modification that is involved in many cellular processes, including cell signaling, DNA repair, gene regulation and apoptosis.
Improper ADP-ribosylation has been implicated in some forms of cancer. It... | ADP-ribosylation | Chemistry,Biology | 3,628 |
11,807,208 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium%20Tower%20%28Tokyo%29 | Millennium Tower was a 180-floor skyscraper that was envisioned by architect Sir Norman Foster in 1989. He intended for it to be built in Tokyo Bay, 2 km offshore from Tokyo, Japan.
Design
The design calls for a cone-shaped pyramid 840 meters high, with a base about as big as the Tokyo Olympic Stadium and glass sides ... | Millennium Tower (Tokyo) | Technology | 422 |
52,193,820 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PSR%20J1841%E2%88%920500 | PSR J1841−0500 is a pulsar located 22,800 light-years from the Sun in the Scutum–Centaurus Arm of the Milky Way. It was discovered in December 2008 by Fernando Camilo, who was using the Parkes Observatory when he discovered the object. At the time of discovery, it was spinning once every 0.9 seconds. However, in 2009, ... | PSR J1841−0500 | Astronomy | 196 |
28,187,419 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wetland%20indicator%20status | Wetland indicator status denotes the probability of individual species of vascular plants occurring in freshwater, brackish and saltwater wetlands in the United States. The wetland status of 7,000 plants is determined upon information contained in a list compiled in the National Wetland Inventory undertaken by the U.S.... | Wetland indicator status | Environmental_science | 675 |
1,181,748 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dermatophyte | Dermatophyte (from Greek derma "skin" (GEN dermatos) and phyton "plant") is a common label for a group of fungus of Arthrodermataceae that commonly causes skin disease in animals and humans. Traditionally, these anamorphic (asexual or imperfect fungi) mold genera are: Microsporum, Epidermophyton and Trichophyton. ... | Dermatophyte | Biology | 3,914 |
13,599,122 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canyon%20Lake%20Gorge | Canyon Lake Gorge is a limestone gorge in Texas, which is around long, hundreds of yards (metres) wide, and up to or more deep, which was exposed in 2002 when extensive flooding of the Guadalupe River led to a huge amount of water going over the spillway from Canyon Lake reservoir and removing the sediment from the g... | Canyon Lake Gorge | Engineering | 846 |
31,619,549 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mentat%20Portable%20Streams | Mentat Portable Streams (MPS) was a platform independent implementation of the UNIX System V STREAMS networking protocol stack, normally sold with the Mentat TCP stack providing TCP/IP support. Portable Streams was used in a number of commercial products, including Apple Computer's Open Transport, AIX, VxWorks, Palm OS... | Mentat Portable Streams | Technology | 120 |
37,832,906 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAF-T | SAF-T (Standard Audit File for Tax) is an international standard for electronic exchange of reliable accounting data from organizations to a national tax authority or external auditors. The standard is defined by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). The file requirements are expressed usin... | SAF-T | Technology | 702 |
22,635,490 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neopentyl%20glycol | Neopentyl glycol (IUPAC name: 2,2-dimethylpropane-1,3-diol) is an organic chemical compound. It is used in the synthesis of polyesters, paints, lubricants, and plasticizers. When used in the manufacture of polyesters, it enhances the stability of the product towards heat, light, and water. By esterification reaction wi... | Neopentyl glycol | Chemistry,Materials_science | 477 |
751,379 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ConScript%20Unicode%20Registry | The ConScript Unicode Registry is a volunteer project to coordinate the assignment of code points in the Unicode Private Use Areas (PUA) for the encoding of artificial scripts, such as those for constructed languages. It was founded by John Cowan and was maintained by him and Michael Everson. It is not affiliated with ... | ConScript Unicode Registry | Technology | 368 |
4,435,023 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mud%20logging | Mud logging is the creation of a detailed record (well log) of a borehole by examining the cuttings of rock brought to the surface by the circulating drilling medium (most commonly drilling mud). Mud logging is usually performed by a third-party mud logging company. This provides well owners and producers with informat... | Mud logging | Chemistry,Engineering | 1,906 |
325,156 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mezzanine | A mezzanine (; or in Italian, a mezzanino) is an intermediate floor in a building which is partly open to the double-height ceilinged floor below, or which does not extend over the whole floorspace of the building, a loft with non-sloped walls. However, the term is often used loosely for the floor above the ground floo... | Mezzanine | Technology,Engineering | 1,134 |
39,439,707 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Footlight%20%28typeface%29 | Footlight is a serif typeface designed by Malaysian type designer Ong Chong Wah in 1986 for the Monotype Corporation. Footlight is an irregular design. It is sold in weights from light to extra-bold with matching italics. It was originally designed as an italic font, a roman version was later made.
Footlight MT
A vers... | Footlight (typeface) | Technology | 256 |
67,567,062 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neocalyptrella | Neocalyptrella is a genus of diatoms belonging to the family Rhizosoleniaceae.
Species:
Neocalyptrella robusta (G.Norman ex Ralfs) Hernández-Becerril & Castillo
References
Diatoms
Diatom genera | Neocalyptrella | Biology | 57 |
27,458,316 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute%20for%20Philanthropy | The Institute for Philanthropy is a not-for-profit organisation which provides information and educational programmes to philanthropists and to charitable organizations. Originally established in 2000 by Hilary Browne-Wilkinson, a former solicitor at University College London, the Institute currently operates from offi... | Institute for Philanthropy | Biology | 557 |
36,108,052 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contextualization%20%28computer%20science%29 | In computer science, contextualization is the process of identifying the data relevant to an entity (e.g., a person or a city) based on the entity's contextual information.
Definition
Context or contextual information is any information about any entity that can be used to effectively reduce the amount of reasoning re... | Contextualization (computer science) | Technology | 355 |
78,649,718 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grayanic%20acid | Grayanic acid is an organic compound found in certain lichens, particularly Cladonia grayi, where it serves as a secondary metabolite with notable taxonomic importance. Identified in the 1930s, it is now recognised as a chemotaxonomic marker that helps distinguish closely related species within the Cladonia chlorophaea... | Grayanic acid | Chemistry | 4,305 |
8,036,355 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Framework-specific%20modeling%20language | A framework-specific modeling language (FSML) is a kind of domain-specific modeling language which is designed for an object-oriented application framework.
FSMLs define framework-provided abstractions as FSML concepts and decompose the abstractions into features. The features represent implementation steps or choic... | Framework-specific modeling language | Engineering | 312 |
2,368,154 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinical%20decision%20support%20system | A clinical decision support system (CDSS) is a health information technology that provides clinicians, staff, patients, and other individuals with knowledge and person-specific information to help health and health care. CDSS encompasses a variety of tools to enhance decision-making in the clinical workflow. These tool... | Clinical decision support system | Technology,Biology | 5,186 |
896 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argon | Argon is a chemical element; it has symbol Ar and atomic number 18. It is in group 18 of the periodic table and is a noble gas. Argon is the third most abundant gas in Earth's atmosphere, at 0.934% (9340 ppmv). It is more than twice as abundant as water vapor (which averages about 4000 ppmv, but varies greatly), 23 tim... | Argon | Physics,Chemistry,Materials_science | 3,963 |
19,810,946 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exophilia | Exophilia is "a fetishism whose object is the sexuality of extraterrestrials." In other words, it is a desire for extraterrestrial, alien, or other non-human life forms. The term was coined by the writer Supervert in the 2001 book Extraterrestrial Sex Fetish. Because exophilia originated in a literary work, it is not a... | Exophilia | Biology | 115 |
75,993,685 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wairarapa%20Dark%20Sky%20Reserve | The Wairarapa Dark Sky Reserve is an International Dark Sky Reserve in the Wairarapa region in the southern part of the North Island of New Zealand. The reserve was designated by DarkSky International in January 2023. It was the second dark sky reserve to be certified in New Zealand (after the Aoraki Mackenzie Internat... | Wairarapa Dark Sky Reserve | Astronomy | 564 |
282,377 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anvil | An anvil is a metalworking tool consisting of a large block of metal (usually forged or cast steel), with a flattened top surface, upon which another object is struck (or "worked").
Anvils are massive because the higher their inertia, the more efficiently they cause the energy of striking tools to be transferred to t... | Anvil | Physics | 3,343 |
4,529,099 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaoqiao%2C%20Kai%20County | Gaoqiao () is a town located in a valley in Kai County, in the northeast of Chongqing municipality in Southwest China. Central Chongqing lies to the southwest.
On 23 December 2003 at 21:15, a gas well burst and released highly toxic hydrogen sulfide. According to China Daily, 233 people died and at least 9,000 were i... | Gaoqiao, Kai County | Chemistry | 232 |
2,696,845 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20rights | Digital rights are those human rights and legal rights that allow individuals to access, use, create, and publish digital media or to access and use computers, other electronic devices, and telecommunications networks. The concept is particularly related to the protection and realization of existing rights, such as the... | Digital rights | Technology | 2,087 |
7,968,026 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centrifugal%20evaporator | A centrifugal evaporator is a device used in chemical and biochemical laboratories for the efficient and gentle evaporation of solvents from many samples at the same time, and samples contained in microtitre plates. If only one sample required evaporation then a rotary evaporator is most often used. The most advanced m... | Centrifugal evaporator | Chemistry,Engineering | 505 |
68,425,612 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time%20in%20Mozambique | Time in Mozambique is given by a single time zone, officially denoted as Central Africa Time (CAT; UTC+02:00). Mozambique has never observed daylight saving time.
History
Mozambique adopted UTC+02:00 (Central Africa Time; CAT) unofficially in 1903, and officially on 26 May 1911.
IANA time zone database
In the IANA ... | Time in Mozambique | Physics | 186 |
44,372,858 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traction%20force%20microscopy | In cellular biology, traction force microscopy (TFM) is an experimental method for determining the tractions on the surface of a cell by obtaining measurements of the surrounding displacement field within an in vitro extracellular matrix (ECM).
Overview
The dynamic mechanical behavior of cell-ECM and cell-cell intera... | Traction force microscopy | Chemistry | 1,124 |
17,600,071 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polydioctylfluorene | Polydioctylfluorene (PFO) is an organic compound, a polymer of 9,9-dioctylfluorene, with formula (C13H6(C8H17)2)n. It is an electroluminescent conductive polymer that characteristically emits blue light. Like other polyfluorene polymers, it has been studied as a possible material for light-emitting diodes.
Structur... | Polydioctylfluorene | Chemistry | 1,350 |
24,449,712 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Improved%20Turbine%20Engine%20Program | The Improved Turbine Engine Program (ITEP), formerly the Advanced Affordable Turbine Engine (AATE) program, is a United States Army project to develop a General Electric T700 replacement for the UH-60 Black Hawk and AH-64 Apache, improving fuel consumption, power, durability and cost. Honeywell and Pratt & Whitney form... | Improved Turbine Engine Program | Technology | 1,312 |
10,204,402 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New%20York%20statistical%20areas | The U.S. state of New York currently has 34 statistical areas that have been delineated by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). On July 21, 2023, the OMB delineated seven combined statistical areas, 13 metropolitan statistical areas and 14 micropolitan statistical areas in . As of 2023, the largest of these is th... | New York statistical areas | Mathematics | 228 |
576,510 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durham%20tube | Durham tubes are used in microbiology to detect production of gas by microorganisms. They are simply smaller test tubes inserted upside down in another test tube so they are freely movable. The culture media to be tested is then added to the larger tube and sterilized, which also eliminates the initial air gap produced... | Durham tube | Biology | 306 |
48,317,186 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%BBrtab | Sûrtab S.A. is a Haitian technology company headquartered in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, that designs, develops, and sells computer hardware and consumer electronics, most notably, tablet computers.
Etymology
The name Sûrtab, is derived from a contraction between the French word, "sûr", which is used to designate things th... | Sûrtab | Technology | 166 |
965,610 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim%20Russ | Timothy Darrell Russ (born June 22, 1956) is an American actor, musician, screenwriter, director and amateur astronomer. He is best known for his roles as Lieutenant Commander Tuvok on Star Trek: Voyager, Robert Johnson in Crossroads (1986), Casey in East of Hope Street (1998), Frank on Samantha Who?, Principal Frankli... | Tim Russ | Astronomy | 1,078 |
74,368,203 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Californium%28III%29%20oxybromide | Californium(III) oxybromide is a inorganic compound of californium, bromine, and oxygen with the formula CfOBr.
Physical properties
Californium bromide is obtained by heating in HBr.
The compound is isostructural with CfOCl. Both are prepared by the same method.
References
Californium compounds
Oxybromides | Californium(III) oxybromide | Chemistry | 83 |
14,132,752 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CYR61 | Cysteine-rich angiogenic inducer 61 (CYR61) or CCN family member 1 (CCN1), is a matricellular protein that in humans is encoded by the CYR61 gene.
CYR61 is a secreted, extracellular matrix (ECM)-associated signaling protein of the CCN family (CCN intercellular signaling protein). CYR61 is capable of regulating a broad... | CYR61 | Biology | 2,643 |
1,416,951 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxoglutarate%20dehydrogenase%20complex | The oxoglutarate dehydrogenase complex (OGDC) or α-ketoglutarate dehydrogenase complex is an enzyme complex, most commonly known for its role in the citric acid cycle.
Units
Much like pyruvate dehydrogenase complex (PDC), this enzyme forms a complex composed of three components:
Three classes of these multienzyme com... | Oxoglutarate dehydrogenase complex | Chemistry | 1,784 |
32,222,497 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%20Ergo | The A Ergo is a stand-in stacker forklift truck pioneered by the Swedish truck manufacturing company Atlet AB. When Atlet was founded in 1958, the truck market consisted of many types of trucks including the reach trucks. In 1961, to improve handling efficiency and safety, Atlet AB launched the stand-in stacker as the ... | A Ergo | Engineering | 251 |
12,953,288 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE%20Alexander%20Graham%20Bell%20Medal | The IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal is an award honoring "exceptional contributions to communications and networking sciences and engineering" in the field of telecommunications. The medal is one of the highest honors awarded by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) for achievements in telecomm... | IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal | Engineering | 522 |
5,292,724 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium%20peroxide | Lithium peroxide is the inorganic compound with the formula Li2O2. Lithium peroxide is a white solid, and unlike most other alkali metal peroxides, it is nonhygroscopic. Because of its high oxygen:mass and oxygen:volume ratios, the solid has been used to remove CO2 from and release O2 to the atmosphere in spacecraft.
... | Lithium peroxide | Chemistry | 523 |
24,529,342 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super%20Bit%20Mapping | Super Bit Mapping (SBM) is a noise shaping process, developed by Sony for CD mastering.
Sony claims that the Super Bit Mapping process converts a 20-bit signal from master recording into a 16-bit signal nearly without sound quality loss, using noise shaping to improve signal-to-noise ratio over the frequency bands mos... | Super Bit Mapping | Technology | 162 |
7,754,843 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish%20Accident%20Investigation%20Authority | The Swedish Accident Investigation Authority (, SHK), formerly the Swedish Accident Investigation Board in English, is a Swedish government agency tasked with investigating all types of serious civil or military accidents that can occur on land, on the sea or in the air. Incidents are also to be investigated if there w... | Swedish Accident Investigation Authority | Technology | 349 |
11,524,334 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standpipe%20%28street%29 | A standpipe is a freestanding pipe fitted with a tap which is installed outdoors to dispense water in areas which do not have a running water supply to the buildings.
Use
In the United Kingdom, an "Emergency Drought Order" permits a water company to shut off the primary water supply to homes, and to supply water ins... | Standpipe (street) | Chemistry,Engineering,Environmental_science | 283 |
69,287,506 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S/2019%20S%201 | S/2019 S 1 is a natural satellite of Saturn. Its discovery was announced by Edward Ashton, Brett J. Gladman, Jean-Marc Petit, and Mike Alexandersen on 16 November 2021 from Canada–France–Hawaii Telescope observations taken between 1 July 2019 and 14 June 2021.
S/2019 S 1 is about 5 kilometres in diameter, and orbits S... | S/2019 S 1 | Astronomy | 198 |
31,178,109 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logarithmically%20concave%20sequence | In mathematics, a sequence = of nonnegative real numbers is called a logarithmically concave sequence, or a log-concave sequence for short, if holds for .
Remark: some authors (explicitly or not) add two further conditions in the definition of log-concave sequences:
is non-negative
has no internal zeros; in o... | Logarithmically concave sequence | Mathematics | 220 |
419,993 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibrocartilage%20callus | A fibrocartilage callus is a temporary formation of fibroblasts and chondroblasts which forms at the area of a bone fracture as the bone attempts to heal itself. The cells eventually dissipate and become dormant, lying in the resulting extracellular matrix that is the new bone.
The callus is the first sign of union v... | Fibrocartilage callus | Biology | 160 |
53,844,682 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renyi%20Zhang | Renyi Zhang is an American geoscientist, currently a university distinguished professor and Harold G. Haynes Chair at Texas A&M University and an elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and American Geophysical Union.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Fel... | Renyi Zhang | Chemistry | 80 |
3,100,179 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locally%20nilpotent | In the mathematical field of commutative algebra, an ideal I in a commutative ring A is locally nilpotent at a prime ideal p if Ip, the localization of I at p, is a nilpotent ideal in Ap.
In non-commutative algebra and group theory, an algebra or group is locally nilpotent if and only if every finitely generated subal... | Locally nilpotent | Mathematics | 185 |
14,617,864 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czech%20chemical%20nomenclature | Foundations of the Czech chemical nomenclature () and terminology were laid during the 1820s and 1830s. These early naming conventions fit the Czech language and, being mostly the work of a single person, Jan Svatopluk Presl, provided a consistent way to name chemical compounds. Over time, the nomenclature expanded con... | Czech chemical nomenclature | Chemistry | 946 |
5,111,875 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadmium%20iodide | Cadmium iodide is an inorganic compound with the formula CdI2. It is a white hygroscopic solid. It also can be obtained as a mono- and tetrahydrate. It has few applications. It is notable for its crystal structure, which is typical for compounds of the form MX2 with strong polarization effects.
Preparation
Cadmium i... | Cadmium iodide | Chemistry,Materials_science | 505 |
57,294,720 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinnie%20Stones | The Dinnie Stones (also called Stanes or Steens) are a pair of Scottish lifting stones located in Potarch, Aberdeenshire. They were made famous by strongman Donald Dinnie, who reportedly carried the stones barehanded across the width of the Potarch Bridge, a distance of , in 1860. They remain in use as lifting stones.
... | Dinnie Stones | Physics | 1,147 |
57,803,107 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alruba | Alruba, a name derived from Arabic for "the foal", is a suspected astrometric binary star system in the northern circumpolar constellation of Draco. It is just barely visible to the naked eye as a dim point of light with an apparent visual magnitude of 5.76. Based on parallax measurements obtained during the Gaia missi... | Alruba | Astronomy | 382 |
41,460,890 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iota1%20Muscae | {{DISPLAYTITLE:Iota1 Muscae}}
ι1 Muscae, Latinised as Iota1 Muscae, is a solitary star in the southern constellation of Musca, near the southern constellation border with Chamaeleon. It is visible to the naked eye as a dim, orange-hued star with an apparent visual magnitude is 5.05. The star is located around 222 ligh... | Iota1 Muscae | Astronomy | 219 |
33,550,497 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%A9union%27s%20coral%20reef | Réunion is an island located near the eastern coast of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean. Its coral reef covers a concentrated part of the western littoral. The coral reef is located between St Leu and St Gilles. It is more than long and ranges in width from in its northern part at St. Gilles to in the south. Since the... | Réunion's coral reef | Biology | 1,712 |
10,261,692 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite%20ground%20track | A satellite ground track or satellite ground trace is the path on the surface of a planet directly below a satellite's trajectory. It is also known as a suborbital track or subsatellite track, and is the vertical projection of the satellite's orbit onto the surface of the Earth (or whatever body the satellite is orbiti... | Satellite ground track | Astronomy,Engineering | 2,026 |
14,055,458 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactive%20nitrogen%20species | Reactive nitrogen species (RNS) are a family of antimicrobial molecules derived from nitric oxide (•NO) and superoxide (O2•−) produced via the enzymatic activity of inducible nitric oxide synthase 2 (NOS2) and NADPH oxidase respectively. NOS2 is expressed primarily in macrophages after induction by cytokines and microb... | Reactive nitrogen species | Chemistry,Biology | 785 |
150,049 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S/PDIF | S/PDIF (Sony/Philips Digital Interface) is a type of digital audio interface used in consumer audio equipment to output audio over relatively short distances. The signal is transmitted over either a coaxial cable using RCA or BNC connectors, or a fibre-optic cable using TOSLINK connectors. S/PDIF interconnects componen... | S/PDIF | Technology | 1,224 |
639,767 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holmdel%20Horn%20Antenna | The Holmdel Horn Antenna is a large microwave horn antenna that was used as a satellite communication antenna and radio telescope during the 1960s at the Bell Telephone Laboratories facility located on Crawford Hill in Holmdel Township, New Jersey, United States. It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1989 b... | Holmdel Horn Antenna | Physics,Astronomy | 1,598 |
55,193,805 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atherton%E2%80%93Todd%20reaction | The Atherton-Todd reaction is a name reaction in organic chemistry, which goes back to the British chemists F. R. Atherton, H. T. Openshaw and A. R. Todd. These described the reaction for the first time in 1945 as a method of converting dialkyl phosphites into dialkyl chlorophosphates. The dialkyl chlorophosphates form... | Atherton–Todd reaction | Chemistry | 550 |
491,714 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerard%20%27t%20Hooft | Gerardus "Gerard" 't Hooft (; born July 5, 1946) is a Dutch theoretical physicist and professor at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. He shared the 1999 Nobel Prize in Physics with his thesis advisor Martinus J. G. Veltman "for elucidating the quantum structure of electroweak interactions".
His work concentrates on... | Gerard 't Hooft | Technology | 2,964 |
65,677,074 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life-years%20lost | The life-years lost or years of lost life (YLL) is a unit to measure the number of expected years of human life lost following an unexpected event, such as death by illness, crime or war.
Life-years lost is a flexible measure which have been used to measure the effects of overall mortality of non-communicable diseases... | Life-years lost | Biology,Environmental_science | 191 |
33,418,730 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Translation%20surface | In mathematics a translation surface is a surface obtained from identifying the sides of a polygon in the Euclidean plane by translations. An equivalent definition is a Riemann surface together with a holomorphic 1-form.
These surfaces arise in dynamical systems where they can be used to model billiards, and in Teichm... | Translation surface | Physics,Mathematics | 3,389 |
3,233,543 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phosphoinositide%20phospholipase%20C | Phosphoinositide phospholipase C (PLC, EC 3.1.4.11, triphosphoinositide phosphodiesterase, phosphoinositidase C, 1-phosphatidylinositol-4,5-bisphosphate phosphodiesterase, monophosphatidylinositol phosphodiesterase, phosphatidylinositol phospholipase C, PI-PLC, 1-phosphatidyl-D-myo-inositol-4,5-bisphosphate inositoltri... | Phosphoinositide phospholipase C | Chemistry,Biology | 3,186 |
8,960,053 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declared%20Rare%20and%20Priority%20Flora%20List | The Declared Rare and Priority Flora List is the system by which Western Australia's conservation flora are given a priority. Developed by the Government of Western Australia's Department of Environment and Conservation, it was used extensively within the department, including the Western Australian Herbarium. The herb... | Declared Rare and Priority Flora List | Biology | 550 |
76,756,314 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IC%202628 | IC 2628 is a type SBa barred spiral galaxy with a ring located in Leo constellation. It is located 600 million light-years from the Solar System and has an approximate diameter of 135,000 light-years. IC 2628 was discovered on March 27, 1906, by Max Wolf and is classified as a ring galaxy due to its peculiar appearance... | IC 2628 | Astronomy | 165 |
52,799,912 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC%201869 | NGC 1869 (also known as ESO 85-SC55) is an open cluster in the Dorado constellation. It is located within the Large Magellanic Cloud. It was discovered by James Dunlop on September 24, 1826, using a telescope reflector with a nine-inch aperture. It is a large cluster of rich scattered stars. It is part of a triple asso... | NGC 1869 | Astronomy | 113 |
665,492 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxiphobia | Toxiphobia in non-human animals is rejection of foods with tastes, odors, or appearances which are followed by illness resulted from toxins found in these foods. In humans, toxiphobia is the irrational fear of poisons and being poisoned.
Notable people
Kurt Gödel (1906–1978), Austrian-American scientist who, after ... | Toxiphobia | Environmental_science | 146 |
42,206,064 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raffaello%20D%27Andrea | Raffaello D’Andrea (born August 13, 1967, in Pordenone, Italy) is a Canadian-Italian-Swiss engineer, artist, and entrepreneur. He is professor of dynamic systems and control at ETH Zurich. He is a co-founder of Kiva Systems (now operating as Amazon Robotics), and the founder of Verity, an innovator in autonomous drones... | Raffaello D'Andrea | Engineering | 1,328 |
30,071,992 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.%20Aneesh | Aneesh Aneesh is a sociologist of globalization, labor, and technology. He is Executive Director of the School of Global Studies and Languages at the University of Oregon and a Professor of Global Studies and Sociology. Previously, he served as a professor of sociology and director of the Institute of World Affairs an... | A. Aneesh | Engineering | 373 |
2,954,685 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Povarov%20reaction | The Povarov reaction is an organic reaction described as a formal cycloaddition between an aromatic imine and an alkene. The imine in this organic reaction is a condensation reaction product from an aniline type compound and a benzaldehyde type compound. The alkene must be electron rich which means that functional grou... | Povarov reaction | Chemistry | 774 |
35,933,568 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspicuous%20expression | Conspicuous expression or performative consumption are terms used to describe the act of doing something for the primary purpose of having someone see you do it. This is based on the concepts of conspicuous consumption, conspicuous leisure, and the performative turn.
This is similar to conspicuous consumption except t... | Conspicuous expression | Biology | 123 |
2,828,266 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elevator%20operator | An elevator operator (North American English), liftman (in Commonwealth English, usually lift attendant), or lift girl (in British English), is a person specifically employed to operate a manually operated elevator.
While largely considered an obsolete occupation, elevator operators continue to work in historic instal... | Elevator operator | Engineering | 1,592 |
21,483 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numeral%20%28linguistics%29 | In linguistics, a numeral in the broadest sense is a word or phrase that describes a numerical quantity. Some theories of grammar use the word "numeral" to refer to cardinal numbers that act as a determiner that specify the quantity of a noun, for example the "two" in "two hats". Some theories of grammar do not includ... | Numeral (linguistics) | Mathematics | 4,249 |
729,308 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navigation%20light | A navigation light, also known as a running or position light, is a source of illumination on a watercraft, aircraft or spacecraft, meant to give information on the craft's position, heading, or status. Some navigation lights are colour-coded red and green to aid traffic control by identifying the craft's orientation. ... | Navigation light | Engineering | 1,710 |
11,610,688 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish%20Transverse%20Mercator | Irish Transverse Mercator (ITM) is the geographic coordinate system for Ireland. It was implemented jointly by the Ordnance Survey Ireland (OSi) and the Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland (OSNI) in 2001. The name is derived from the Transverse Mercator projection it uses and the fact that it is optimised for the islan... | Irish Transverse Mercator | Mathematics,Engineering | 988 |
2,673,834 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numeronym | A numeronym is a word, usually an abbreviation, composed partially or wholly of numerals. The term can be used to describe several different number-based constructs, but it most commonly refers to a contraction in which all letters between the first and last of a word are replaced with the number of omitted letters (fo... | Numeronym | Mathematics | 1,096 |
14,261,424 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trimethylarsine%20%28data%20page%29 | This page provides supplementary chemical data on Trimethylarsine.
Material Safety Data Sheet
The handling of this chemical may incur notable safety precautions. It is highly recommend that you seek the Material Safety Datasheet (MSDS) for this chemical from a reliable source such as SIRI, and follow its direction... | Trimethylarsine (data page) | Chemistry | 84 |
53,398,219 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluent%20%28mathematics%29 | A fluent is a time-varying quantity or variable. The term was used by Isaac Newton in his early calculus to describe his form of a function. The concept was introduced by Newton in 1665 and detailed in his mathematical treatise, Method of Fluxions. Newton described any variable that changed its value as a fluent – for ... | Fluent (mathematics) | Mathematics | 142 |
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