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- Category:Public Pain is an unpleasant sensation that may be associated with actual or potential tissue damage and may contain physical and emotional ...18 KB (2,786 words) - 10:58, 11 March 2023
- Rocket propellant is the material used by a rocket engine to generate thrust. The most common propellants consist of a fuel and an oxidizer that ...24 KB (3,649 words) - 02:28, 16 December 2022
- Kana is a general term for the syllabic Japanese scripts hiragana (ひらがな) and katakana (カタカナ) as well as the old system known ...25 KB (3,410 words) - 02:35, 5 October 2022
- The Kingdom of Lunda (c. 1665-1887), also known as the Lunda Empire was a pre-colonial African confederation of states in what is now the Democratic ...16 KB (2,448 words) - 03:03, 5 November 2022
- Orpheus (Greek: Ορφεύς; pronunciation: ohr'-fee-uhs) The mythological name "Orpheus" is commonly pronounced "ohr' ...19 KB (3,011 words) - 02:17, 18 November 2022
- Cadmium (chemical symbol Cd, atomic number 48) is a relatively rare, soft, bluish-white metal. Its chemical properties are similar to those of ...16 KB (2,248 words) - 10:14, 25 November 2023
- Prion ( ˈpriːɒn ; 'prē,än The Oxford American College Dictionary (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2002). ; "pree-on" ...17 KB (2,526 words) - 23:00, 30 November 2022
- Valine is an α-amino acid that is found in most proteins and is essential in the human diet. It is similar to leucine and isoleucine in being ...8 KB (1,183 words) - 14:14, 3 May 2023
- Cellular differentiation is an embryological process by which an unspecialized cell becomes specialized into one of the many cell types that ...10 KB (1,501 words) - 01:40, 13 January 2023
- Sulfur or sulphur (see spelling below) (chemical symbol S, atomic number 16) is a yellow crystalline solid at ordinary temperatures and pressures ...22 KB (3,269 words) - 21:43, 26 February 2023
- safeguard the taiga for future generations. The world's largest terrestrial biome, the taiga ( ˈtaɪgə ) is a major subarctic, geographic ...16 KB (2,478 words) - 03:48, 27 February 2023
- Evangelista Torricelli (October 15, 1608 – October 25, 1647) was an Italian physicist and mathematician, best known for his invention of the ...8 KB (1,143 words) - 04:50, 23 March 2024
- An aerogel is a low-density solid-state material derived from a gel in which the liquid component of the gel has been replaced with gas. The ...18 KB (2,574 words) - 05:49, 16 June 2023
- Moss is the common name for any of the small, green, non-vascular land plants of the division Bryophyta, characterized by multi-cellular rhizoids ...21 KB (3,181 words) - 01:43, 11 March 2023
- A white dwarf, also called a degenerate dwarf, is a small star composed mostly of electron-degenerate matter. As white dwarfs have mass comparable ...72 KB (10,792 words) - 18:14, 4 May 2023
- Measles, also known as rubeola, is a very highly contagious [[virus|viral] disease caused by a paramyxovirus of the genus Morbillivirus, and ...18 KB (2,539 words) - 09:34, 10 March 2023
- The Hetmanate or officially Viysko Zaporozke ( Гетьманщина, Het’manshchyna; Військо Запорозьке, Viys’ko Zaporoz’ke ...25 KB (3,590 words) - 23:40, 6 April 2022
- Germ layer is any of three cellular layers formed during animal embryogenesis that give rise through further differentiation to the various structures ...10 KB (1,511 words) - 18:03, 28 August 2021
- In anatomy, the heart is the muscular, pumping organ of the closed circulatory system of all vertebrates and some invertebrates (annelids and ...17 KB (2,703 words) - 15:12, 25 January 2023
- Watershed has traditionally designated the dividing line, or drainage divide, between two drainage basins; that is, the ridge of high land or ...9 KB (1,433 words) - 23:19, 3 May 2023