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- In chemistry, a base is thought of as a substance which can accept protons or any chemical compound that yields hydroxide ions (OH-) in solution ...21 KB (3,307 words) - 11:03, 20 September 2023
- An acid-base reaction is a chemical reaction that occurs between an acid and a base. Several concepts exist which provide alternative definitions ...18 KB (2,642 words) - 07:40, 14 June 2023
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- The ability of a chemical to behave as both an acid and a base is called amphoterism, and this type of substance is known as an amphoteric substance. ...5 KB (789 words) - 17:25, 26 July 2023
- In isosceles triangles the angles at the base equal one another, and ... In isosceles triangles the angles at the base equal one another, and ...8 KB (1,319 words) - 23:03, 20 November 2023
- upon addition of small amounts of acid or base, or upon dilution. They usually consist of a weak acid and its conjugate base, or, less commonly ...12 KB (1,728 words) - 18:37, 22 November 2023
- and cytosine. In RNA, uracil is the base rather than thymine. ... consist of a nitrogen-containing base bonded to a five-carbon (pentose ...7 KB (1,045 words) - 05:24, 25 August 2020
- cells. They consist of a nitrogen-containing base bonded to a five-carbon (pentose) sugar. Nucleosides are the biochemical precursors of nucleotides ...6 KB (865 words) - 10:10, 11 March 2023
- In chemistry, a base is thought of as a substance which can accept protons or any chemical compound that yields hydroxide ions (OH-) in solution ...21 KB (3,307 words) - 11:03, 20 September 2023
- == World bauxite mine production, reserves, and reserve base == ... ! rowspan="2" | Reserve base |- ! 2000 ! 2001 ...6 KB (660 words) - 03:09, 26 September 2023
- An acid-base reaction is a chemical reaction that occurs between an acid and a base. Several concepts exist which provide alternative definitions ...18 KB (2,642 words) - 07:40, 14 June 2023
- cases, such as those organisms forming the base of deep-sea vent food webs ... their ability to photosynthesize—are the base of the food chain. ...8 KB (1,247 words) - 10:18, 10 November 2023
- fifth carbon of the sugar, and not to the base. The bases are attached to ... the parent compound.) Depending on their base sugar, nucleotides are therefore ...7 KB (1,027 words) - 09:19, 10 August 2022
- == Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding == [[Image:Chengdu_panda_breeding ... Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding, or simply Chengdu Panda ...13 KB (1,731 words) - 20:05, 21 April 2023
- that has lost a proton can now act as a base (or proton acceptor), and ... an acid is an electron-pair acceptor and a base is an electron-pair donor ...16 KB (2,510 words) - 07:38, 14 June 2023
- highest side. The width of the walls at the base is 4.09 meters (13.42 feet ... a walkway around the tower to make the base visible once again. This caused ...8 KB (1,257 words) - 18:48, 25 October 2022
- the total money supply, or monetary base. Total money supplies are ... is referred to as the "wide monetary base" or "narrow money ...16 KB (2,516 words) - 19:56, 9 November 2022
- binds on one end to a specific codon (three-base region) in the mRNA and binds ... The tRNA also contains a three base region called the anticodon that ...13 KB (1,936 words) - 01:34, 2 May 2023
- *Acid-base reactions, broadly characterized as reactions between an ... * Acid-base reaction * Base (chemistry) * Catalyst * Chemical bond ...12 KB (1,710 words) - 14:43, 5 December 2023
- x) or ex, where e is a mathematical constant, the base of the natural logarithm, which equals approximately 2.718281828, and is also known as Euler ...8 KB (1,160 words) - 23:57, 24 March 2024
- the acid, or the stability of the conjugate base using inductive effects or ... ===Stability of the conjugate base=== [[Image:Resonance stabilization ...13 KB (1,872 words) - 19:11, 26 November 2023
- The antennae are jointed at least at the base. There are a wide diversity ... The three basic segments of the typical insect antenna are the scape ...6 KB (965 words) - 05:21, 31 July 2023
- The system consists of a set of seven base units together with a set ... It has provided a necessary common base for the scientific, technical ...15 KB (2,449 words) - 18:28, 22 December 2022
- [R1NR2]-, and is an extremely strong base, due to the extreme weakness ... don't have as clearly noticeable acid-base properties in water. This ...10 KB (1,423 words) - 06:58, 25 July 2023
- tautomerism. The reaction with a strong base gives the corresponding enolate ... ketones are prepared from peroxides and base * In the Ruzicka cyclization ...9 KB (1,318 words) - 03:31, 6 October 2022
- The pituitary gland, or hypophysis, is an endocrine gland located near the base of vertebrate brain, and that produces secretions that stimulate ...11 KB (1,456 words) - 06:20, 24 November 2022
- in 1917 he amassed more hits (2,967), extra-base hits (865), and runs (1,521 ... Besides being a fearsome hitter, he was a skilled base stealer and ...10 KB (1,520 words) - 13:38, 2 February 2024
- In mathematics, the logarithm (or log) of a number x in base b is the power (n) to which the base b must be raised to obtain the number x. For ...27 KB (4,283 words) - 20:58, 3 November 2022
- (CsOH), an extremely strong chemical base that will rapidly etch the ... carbonate. It is therefore used as a base in organic chemistry. ...14 KB (1,931 words) - 00:09, 4 December 2023
- stabilization" of the conjugate base. ===Synthesis=== ... enol tautomerism is catalyzed by either acid or base. ===Common reactions=== ...11 KB (1,651 words) - 05:09, 17 June 2023
- A nucleotide is a chemical compound with three components: a nitrogen-containing base, a pentose (five-carbon) sugar (relatively simple carbohydrates ...18 KB (2,589 words) - 10:10, 11 March 2023
- feet, and a bare gray-white skin around the base of the bill in front of the ... The base of the adult's bill, loral region, and chin are bare ...10 KB (1,526 words) - 21:41, 16 April 2023
- For both definitions, log10 denotes the base-10 logarithm; therefore ... between the hydrogen ions and the conjugate base. The following shows the equilibrium ...15 KB (2,240 words) - 15:20, 29 August 2023
- of clay body. Stop at about 1/4 inch from the base # Widen the inside ... a toggle or cheese wire underneath the base of the pot to separate it ...12 KB (2,032 words) - 05:56, 30 November 2022
- this system the definition of each of the base units refer to specific empirical ... variations, with different choices of base units, though these do not ...18 KB (2,732 words) - 14:42, 5 December 2023
- interest rates, reducing the monetary base, or increasing reserve requirements ... policy involve modifying the amount of base currency (M0) in circulation ...27 KB (4,108 words) - 19:56, 9 November 2022
- first baseman and he was also a threat as a base stealer (he lead the league ... The following year he switched to first base; like Babe Ruth, he was too ...12 KB (1,757 words) - 10:58, 13 December 2023
- Sodium hydroxide, also known as lye or caustic soda, is a caustic metallic base. Its chemical formula is NaOH. Forming a strongly alkaline solution ...19 KB (2,762 words) - 15:05, 27 April 2023
- treatment of a parent alcohol with a strong base to form the alkoxide anion ... acidic, they readily react with a strong base, like sodium hydroxide, to ...15 KB (2,285 words) - 04:31, 22 March 2024
- built up the city's agricultural base by expanding the chinampa system (floating gardens) around the island, and by capturing lakeshore ...7 KB (1,048 words) - 23:29, 30 September 2021
- a proton donor is an acid and a proton acceptor a base (see acid-base reaction theories). [[image:protonrll.jpg|thumb|250px|A representation of ...10 KB (1,600 words) - 08:20, 2 December 2022
- A decimal (or denary) system is a numeral system that has the number ten as its base. The term decimal is also used for a number written in this ...18 KB (2,501 words) - 09:02, 28 January 2024
- reached the Hellespont, and established a base at Abydos. From there, he ... he had taken Lampsacus, and established a base at Sestos. However, perhaps ...9 KB (1,437 words) - 11:30, 20 September 2023
- better than most steels. The cost of copper-base alloys is generally higher than that of steels but lower than that of nickel-base alloys. ...7 KB (1,110 words) - 04:34, 22 November 2023
- five attempts to encircle the Communist base in the Jinggang Mountains ... interested in expanding their own power base. The CCP therefore planned ...14 KB (2,088 words) - 15:28, 3 December 2022
- Cellulose acetate is used as a synthetic fiber, a film base in photography ... Paris for nonflammable motion-picture film base. A small but growing amount ...9 KB (1,323 words) - 01:40, 13 January 2023
- the county of Devon, is the largest naval base in Western Europe. It has ... a major naval training establishment and a base for the Royal Marines. ...13 KB (1,801 words) - 14:17, 27 January 2023
- several variations, with different choices of base units, though these do not affect its day-to-day use. Over the last two centuries, different variants ...26 KB (4,128 words) - 16:28, 9 November 2022
- ruddy. The coat has a warm, reddish-brown base, with black ticking. In the ... which has a cinnamon (yellowish-brown) base, with chocolate brown ticking ...12 KB (1,817 words) - 07:07, 14 June 2023
- *The area, A, of a parallelogram is A = BH where B is the base of the parallelogram and H is its height. * The area of a parallelogram is twice ...4 KB (631 words) - 07:47, 18 November 2022
- blocks: a diamine (which is a chemical base) and a dicarboxylic acid ... In synthesizing nylon, it is difficult to get the diamine (base) and ...10 KB (1,452 words) - 10:12, 11 March 2023
- bronze wires glued or soldered to a metal base, forming cells (cloisons) ... The base of this ware is of copper, and designs an it are in five ...15 KB (2,310 words) - 07:33, 14 January 2023
- distinguishing it from imaginary numbers. Ten is the base of the decimal ... Ten is the base of the decimal numeral system, by far the most common ...13 KB (1,819 words) - 06:26, 13 June 2023
- a phosphate unit, a sugar unit, and a "base" unit) linked recursively ... The size of genomes is measured in terms of the number of base pairs ...18 KB (2,592 words) - 15:43, 11 February 2023
- in situ by the reaction of chloroform with a strong base. ... organolithium reagents (or another strong base). It is not certain that in ...12 KB (1,686 words) - 07:11, 24 April 2023
- lamps, and the hydroxide, a chemical base, is used to clean up acid ... as baryta, is a strong, corrosive chemical base. It has a white granular or ...13 KB (1,855 words) - 08:07, 20 September 2023
- with vertical mercury column and reservoir at base.]] an open mercury-filled reservoir at the base. Mercury in the tube adjusts ...9 KB (1,410 words) - 08:09, 20 September 2023
- side. This opposite side is called the base of the altitude, and the point ... where S is area, b is the length of the base of the triangle, and ...19 KB (3,068 words) - 16:46, 2 May 2023
- strong. The largest overseas French military base is located there. There is also a US base, the only US base in Sub-Saharan Africa. ...10 KB (1,580 words) - 16:29, 29 January 2024
- Williams set a Major League record for on-base percentage in a season at ... fielders positioned to the right of second base. Williams may also have been ...17 KB (2,672 words) - 21:15, 28 October 2022
- Walter Perry Johnson (November 6, 1887 – December 10, 1946), nicknamed "The Big Train," was an American right-handed pitcher in Major ...12 KB (1,766 words) - 22:27, 3 May 2023
- much debate and taxonomic revision. At the base of the genus is probably the ... leopard originally was seen as being at the base of the Panthera, but newer ...14 KB (1,964 words) - 11:21, 11 March 2023
- Thus, a genomic sequence is an absolute measure of base composition ... different individuals differ at one DNA base, for example where the sequence ...10 KB (1,463 words) - 08:02, 23 January 2023
- goal, but no "built-in" knowledge base of their environment. They ... with an initial data set or knowledge base, but this should not be immutable ...9 KB (1,406 words) - 02:05, 27 February 2023
- Aaron also holds the career marks for runs batted in (2,297), extra ... and a sophomore, playing outfield and third base for the school's baseball ...21 KB (3,165 words) - 21:13, 17 January 2024
- enough promise to start development of base selection for a limited ABM ... was allowed two sites at which it could base a defensive system, one for ...15 KB (2,315 words) - 06:19, 31 July 2023
- was clearly meant to sever the landed power base of aristocratic officialdom ... Sinmun was making efforts to strengthen the base of royal power by moving away ...11 KB (1,743 words) - 22:30, 29 January 2023
- Mountain”). It is 500 feet wide at its base and in total is 15 times higher ... from the closest point on the river to the base of the Falls is not easy going ...8 KB (1,292 words) - 18:04, 27 July 2023
- * Preston, Richard A. Acid-Base, Fluids, and Electrolytes Made Ridiculously Simple. MedMaster Series. Miami: MedMaster, Inc, 2002 (original 1997 ...13 KB (1,858 words) - 08:06, 29 December 2021
- bind on one end to specific codons (three-base region) in the mRNA and bind ... regions tend to be stabilized by internal base pairs; this impedes degradation ...14 KB (2,109 words) - 16:17, 9 November 2022
- resulting joints are not as strong as the base metal, but they have adequate ... Though the base material is not melted in a soldering process, some ...27 KB (4,119 words) - 00:47, 4 February 2023
- These stations transmit back to a base station the major parameters ... that periodically transmit telemetry to a base station. ...8 KB (1,232 words) - 05:33, 27 February 2023
- flower head of this plant, including the base, which is known as the heart ... portions of the involucral bracts and the base, or center, known as the ...13 KB (1,992 words) - 05:45, 9 January 2023
- Ribonucleic acid or RNA is a polymer or chain of nucleotide units, each comprising a nitrogenous base (adenine, cytosine, guanine, or uracil ...21 KB (3,210 words) - 21:06, 16 April 2023
- 1950s until the early 1970s. Following the base closures, many people living ... so the island was used as a hunting base, and occupation sites were ...16 KB (2,304 words) - 15:46, 27 April 2023
- tuberous under ground organs from the base of the stem, weighing up to ... the main shoot develops from the tuber, the base of the shoot close to the ...10 KB (1,640 words) - 18:40, 2 May 2023
- with gardens, moats, and walls at the base of the rock. The architects ... wall on all sides, the rock overhangs its base in many places.Encyclopædia ...13 KB (1,926 words) - 20:09, 21 April 2023
- the tie-point, long enough to reach the base of the poles. These tripod ... The base of the skin is pegged to the ground. Traditionally pegs were ...15 KB (2,483 words) - 23:39, 30 April 2023
- pelvic fins, a dorsal fin with a very long base, depressible into groove, ... in the adult; a dorsal fin with a very long base that is sometimes sail-like ...10 KB (1,463 words) - 16:04, 6 November 2022
- * by Favorskii rearrangement of α-haloketones in presence of base ... be catalyzed both by acids and bases. The base-catalyzed process is called ...11 KB (1,427 words) - 21:32, 20 March 2024
- left the following inscription on the base's walls nonetheless: "Sostratus, the son of Dexiphanes, the Cnidian, dedicated (or erected ...10 KB (1,528 words) - 01:38, 26 October 2022
- seems to have derived from the Proto-Indo-European base *(e)nebh- meaning "moist", which forms the base for the Latin nebula, referring to ...9 KB (1,493 words) - 16:21, 11 November 2022
- 91 left Mehran (Sindh province) Naval Base in Pakistan at 9:15 a.m. ... MiGs tried to escort it to a nearby Indian base, when the Pakistani aircraft ...17 KB (2,490 words) - 06:07, 21 August 2023
- of the offensive lineup advances past first base, second base, third base, ... can also hold the ball while touching a base, when an offensive player ...50 KB (8,173 words) - 15:07, 27 April 2023
- covered by a single scale, enclosing at its base two very small opposite buds ... a nectariferous gland and inserted on the base of a scale, which is itself ...16 KB (2,517 words) - 21:53, 25 November 2022
- * Neoprene base * Polysulfide * Polyurethane * Polyvinyl chloride (PVC) * Rubber base * Silicon base * Albumin glue * Ceramic adhesive ...13 KB (1,970 words) - 05:51, 15 June 2023
- are combined in the presence of a strong base, the product is methyl formate ... (atm) pressure. The most widely used base is sodium methoxide. Hydrolysis ...13 KB (1,811 words) - 06:35, 1 April 2024
- |align=center| base-centered |- || [[image:Monoclinic.png|80px|Monoclinic ... || [[image:Monoclinic-base-centered.png|80px|Monoclinic, centered]] ...24 KB (3,432 words) - 06:31, 11 January 2024
- In Latin America in the 1970s, base communities, a form of a cell church, were organized among the poorest groups of people by priests desiring ...10 KB (1,587 words) - 23:45, 3 December 2023
- being walked, Rose would sprint to first base. He was also known for sliding ... Hustle" after Rose sprinted to first base after drawing a walk. Rose ...22 KB (3,468 words) - 01:04, 24 November 2022
- Jasminum sambac). This tea which often has a base of green tea, but sometimes an Oolong base is used. Jasmine tisane (any herbal infusion other than from ...11 KB (1,681 words) - 10:00, 1 April 2024
- produced tend to vary according to the base alloy. Though some may prefer ... oxide created occupies more space than the base metal converted. This will ...10 KB (1,610 words) - 05:12, 31 July 2023
- shaped award mounted on a square wooden base," also presented between ... rectangular prisms on a silver metal base, green felt on bottom"; ...31 KB (4,353 words) - 07:05, 13 June 2023
- formed, with larger sediment forming the base, and finer particles making ... of a river. They have a wide earthen base and taper at the top. Natural ...10 KB (1,554 words) - 17:44, 25 January 2023
- that are normally free or united at the base. Flowers have compound pistils ... nine stamina inserted on the torus at the base of the peranthium. The flowers ...14 KB (2,051 words) - 09:17, 10 August 2022
- In base 10, a number is evenly divisible by nine if and only if its ... The only other number with this property is three. In base N, the ...22 KB (2,900 words) - 06:48, 13 June 2023
- strictly a reaction type design with the base of the blade solely impulse ... turbines are easily cabled to a terrestrial base and connected to a grid or ...17 KB (2,749 words) - 00:22, 3 May 2023
- The Port of Yokohama quickly became the base for foreign trade in Japan ... The Port of Yokohama quickly became the base for foreign trade in ...20 KB (2,678 words) - 11:13, 25 May 2023
- feet (264 meters) high as measured from its base and 1,267 feet (386 meters ... is also a sizable prairie dog town near the base, the circumference of which ...18 KB (2,711 words) - 10:16, 29 January 2024
- Chemically, aniline is a weak base. Aromatic amines such as aniline ... found that on reducing nitrobenzene, a base was formed which he named ...13 KB (1,817 words) - 06:09, 28 July 2023
- than the hindwings and hardened at the base, while the hindwings are membranous ... katydids, the stridulatory edge is at the base of the tegmina, while in crickets ...11 KB (1,512 words) - 12:04, 21 January 2023
- bearing two axillary ovules. Sometimes the base of the ovary is circled by ... corolla, with the petals joined only at the base. They are insect pollinated ...11 KB (1,635 words) - 06:35, 1 April 2024
- example) and a claim in the "reduction base" (physics). Continuing ... difference in the theory that provides the base for reduction (e.g. 3 strings ...13 KB (1,960 words) - 02:59, 8 December 2022
