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- Ribosomal RNA (rRNA) is a type of non-coding ribonucleic acid (RNA) that is a primary and permanent component of ribosomes, the small, cellular particles that form the site of ...12 KB (1,767 words) - 20:05, 8 December 2022
- Once thought of as a single mineral species, lepidolite has been recently redefined as a series of minerals in the mica group. [http://www.mindat.org/min-2380.html Lepidolite] ...4 KB (543 words) - 00:47, 7 March 2023
- Flounder is a common name for various marine fish in the Order Pleuronectiformes (flatfish), and in particular those comprising the families Bothidae (lefteye flounders), Pleuronectidaea ...11 KB (1,577 words) - 17:43, 28 March 2024
- The Mohs scale of mineral hardness characterizes the scratch resistance of various minerals through the ability of a harder material to scratch a softer material. It was created ...5 KB (710 words) - 13:04, 10 March 2023
- Hārūn ar-Rashīd (Arabic هارون الرشيد also spelled Harun ar-Rashid, Haroun al-Rashid or Haroon al Rasheed (English: Aaron the Upright or rightly-guided) (c. 763 – ...14 KB (2,457 words) - 16:44, 30 January 2022
- Rook is the common name for members of the Old World bird species Corvus frugilegus of the crow family (Corvidae), characterized by black feathers (often with a glossy blue or ...10 KB (1,526 words) - 21:41, 16 April 2023
- Exocytosis is the process by which a cell packages materials in membrane-bound secretory vesicles inside the cell and directs these secretory vesicles to fuse with the cell membrane ...10 KB (1,533 words) - 04:40, 7 April 2021
- Garnet is a group of minerals that have been used since the Bronze Age as gemstones and abrasives. Garnets are most often seen in red, but are available in a wide variety of colors ...18 KB (2,682 words) - 04:33, 18 April 2024
- Averroes (Ibn Rushd) (1126 – December 10, 1198) was an Andalusian-Arab philosopher and physician, a master of philosophy and Islamic law, mathematics, and medicine. He was born ...19 KB (2,761 words) - 07:15, 23 August 2023
- Fatimah binte Muhammad or popularly Fatimah Zahra (Fatima the Gracious) (Arabic: فاطمة الزهراء) (Born Friday twentieth of Jumada al-akhir in Mecca – fourteenth Jumada ...9 KB (1,417 words) - 01:39, 26 March 2024
- Marlin is the common name for several, large marine billfish in the family Istiophoridae of the bony fish order Perciformes. As with the other members of the family, known as ...10 KB (1,463 words) - 16:04, 6 November 2022
- Mantodea is an order (or suborder) of large, terrestrial, carnivorous insects characterized by raptorial forelegs (adapted to capturing prey). The closest relatives of mantids ...13 KB (1,970 words) - 11:08, 9 March 2023
- Abu Dhabi, officially, the Emirate of Abu Dhabi ( إمارة أبو ظبيّ ), (literally Father of Gazelle), is one of seven emirates that constitute the United Arab Emirates ...19 KB (2,925 words) - 06:53, 14 June 2023
- Jabir ibn Hayyan (c. eighth and early ninth centuries) was an Islamic thinker from the early medieval period to whom is ascribed authorship of a large number of alchemical, practical ...16 KB (2,525 words) - 08:37, 13 March 2024
- Impala (plural impala or impalas) is the common name for a light-built, swift-running, powerful-jumping African antelope, Aepyceros melampus, characterized by a reddish brown ...10 KB (1,571 words) - 16:37, 12 February 2024
- Nerve cord is a term that can refer to either (1) the single, hollow, fluid-filled, dorsal tract of nervous tissue that is one of the defining characteristics of chordates (dorsal ...7 KB (1,053 words) - 16:22, 11 November 2022
- Topaz is a silicate mineral of aluminum and fluorine, with the chemical formula Al2SiO4(F,OH)2. Typically, its crystals are wine or straw-yellow in color, but they can also come ...5 KB (639 words) - 04:01, 1 May 2023
- The tourmaline mineral group is chemically one of the most complicated groups of silicate minerals. It is a complex silicate of aluminum and boron, but because of isomorphous ...15 KB (2,235 words) - 04:46, 1 May 2023
- Kuwait City (Arabic: مدينة الكويت, transliteration: Madīnat al-Kūwait), is the capital and largest city of Kuwait. The city is located on the southern shore of Kuwait ...18 KB (2,563 words) - 21:19, 29 December 2023
- Allosaurus was a large (up to 9.7 m long) bipedal (moving on two legs), carnivorous dinosaur that lived during the late Jurassic period, 155 to 145 million years ago. Allosaurus ...11 KB (1,532 words) - 08:09, 23 July 2023
