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- Pliosaurs were carnivorous, aquatic, Mesozoic-era (251-65 million years ago) reptiles comprising the suborder Pliosauroidea of the Plesiosauria ...11 KB (1,490 words) - 08:04, 24 November 2022
- Leucine is an α-amino acid that is found in most proteins and is essential in the human diet. It is similar to isoleucine and valine in being ...8 KB (1,156 words) - 22:03, 25 October 2022
- Authority control is a term used in library and information science to refer to the practice of creating and maintaining headings for bibliographic ...12 KB (1,766 words) - 19:17, 22 August 2023
- Loyset Compère (c. 1445 – August 16, 1518) was a French composer of the Renaissance period. From the same generation as Josquin des Prez, ...11 KB (1,744 words) - 04:15, 4 November 2022
- Shema Yisrael (or Sh'ma Yisroel or just Shema) (Hebrew: שמע ישראל; "Hear, [O] Israel") refers to the most important prayer ...14 KB (2,261 words) - 13:27, 27 January 2023
- Butane, also called n-butane (normal butane), is an unbranched alkane with four carbon atoms in each molecule. Its molecular formula may be written ...10 KB (1,437 words) - 18:43, 23 November 2023
- The term potash has more than one meaning. In a narrow sense, it refers to the salt potassium carbonate (K2CO3). In a broader sense, it is a ...6 KB (830 words) - 05:51, 30 November 2022
- In organic chemistry, functional groups (or moieties) are specific groups of atoms within molecules, that are responsible for the characteristic ...13 KB (1,621 words) - 07:19, 15 April 2024
- Magnetite is a ferromagnetic mineral with the chemical formula Fe3O4and the common chemical name ferrous-ferric oxide, which indicates the mineral ...8 KB (1,145 words) - 05:09, 5 November 2022
- Granite is a hard, tough, igneous rock that is widely distributed in the Earth's continental crust. It is medium- to coarse-grained and ...12 KB (1,794 words) - 12:17, 24 January 2023
- The Book of Nahum is one of the Books of the Minor Prophets in the Hebrew Bible (Christian Old Testament), and was ostensibly written by the ...15 KB (2,280 words) - 20:35, 17 May 2023
- Robin McLaurin Williams (July 21, 1951 August 11, 2014) was an American actor and comedian. Known for his improvisational skills and the wide ...61 KB (8,753 words) - 02:22, 16 December 2022
- Salmonella (plural salmonellae, salmonellas, or salmonella) are any of the various rod-shaped, gram-negative bacteria that comprise the genus ...11 KB (1,577 words) - 01:52, 23 December 2022
- Squids are marine cephalopods (class Cephalopoda, phylum Mollusca) with ten arms and tentacles (at some point in life), secondary armature on ...13 KB (1,807 words) - 15:45, 27 April 2023
- Acetaldehyde, sometimes known as ethanal, is an organic chemical compound with the formula CH3CHO (or MeCHO). It is a flammable liquid with a ...10 KB (1,279 words) - 07:33, 14 June 2023
- Category:Public [[Image:Elektrolyse1.jpg|thumb|200px|right|An apparatus called a Hoffman voltameter is being used for the electrolysis of water ...7 KB (1,039 words) - 04:29, 27 November 2020
- For a chemical reaction to take place, it requires a certain minimum amount of energy, called its activation energy. If a substance can lower ...12 KB (1,789 words) - 17:49, 30 November 2023
- The recorder is a woodwind musical instrument of the family known as fipple flutes or internal duct flutes — whistle-like instruments which ...34 KB (5,330 words) - 01:45, 8 December 2022
- |- | align="center" colspan="2" bgcolor="#ffffff" | [[Image:Nitrous-oxide-3D-vdW.png|150px|Nitrous oxide - space ...20 KB (2,927 words) - 02:28, 16 November 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Media Organizations The Fox Broadcasting Company, usually referred to as just Fox (the company ...19 KB (3,020 words) - 05:48, 27 September 2022
- The categorical proposition is a basic concept in Aristotelian or traditional logic (also sometimes called syllogistic or categorical logic) ...12 KB (1,791 words) - 18:00, 30 November 2023
- A space elevator is a proposed structure intended to transport material from the surface of a celestial body, particularly Earth, into space ...39 KB (5,875 words) - 15:17, 27 April 2023
- A covalent bond is a type of chemical bond characterized by the sharing of a pair of electrons between two atoms. In general, a chemical bond ...15 KB (2,401 words) - 06:13, 11 January 2024
- Carboxylic acids are organic acids characterized by the presence of one or more carboxyl groups in their molecules. A carboxyl group consists ...13 KB (1,872 words) - 19:11, 26 November 2023
- Talc (derived from the Persian via Arabic talq) is a mineral composed of magnesium silicate hydroxide. It is extremely soft, with a greasy feel ...8 KB (1,172 words) - 03:55, 27 February 2023
- An electrolyte (or lyte, in abbreviated jargon) is a material containing free ions that can conduct an electrical current. Most electrolytes ...13 KB (1,858 words) - 08:06, 29 December 2021
- Glycine is one of the 20 most common, natural, "proteinogenic" (literally, protein building) standard amino acids. It is the simplest ...10 KB (1,540 words) - 08:03, 24 January 2023
- Diarmaid Mac Murchadha (later known as Diarmaid na nGall or "Dermot of the Foreigners"), anglicized as Dermot MacMurrough (1110 - May ...16 KB (2,466 words) - 01:09, 2 July 2020
- Zhang Guo Lao (張果老) (Chang Kuo Lao in Wade-Giles) is one of the Eight Daoist Immortals who is generally thought to have lived during the ...10 KB (1,682 words) - 15:18, 3 December 2022
- 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 ...18 KB (2,682 words) - 04:33, 18 April 2024
- Category:Public {| class="toccolours" border="1" style="float: right; clear: right; margin: 0 0 1em 1em; border-collapse: ...30 KB (4,607 words) - 06:05, 18 November 2022
- Camphor is a waxy, white or transparent solid with a strong, aromatic odor. J. Mann, et al., Natural Products: Their Chemistry and Biological ...11 KB (1,519 words) - 18:58, 25 November 2023
- Formic acid (systematic name methanoic acid) is the simplest carboxylic acid. Its formula is HCOOH or CH2O2. In nature, it is found in the stings ...13 KB (1,811 words) - 06:35, 1 April 2024
- Silicones (more accurately called polymerized siloxanes or polysiloxanes) are mixed inorganic-organic polymers. Their general chemical formula ...15 KB (2,090 words) - 22:06, 29 January 2023
- Category:Economists Leontief, Wassily Wassily Leontief (August 5, 1905 – February 5, 1999) has been associated with the quantitative economics ...15 KB (2,137 words) - 23:14, 3 May 2023
- The term supersonic is used to define a speed that exceeds the speed of sound—a speed that is referred to as Mach 1. However, supersonic airflow ...7 KB (968 words) - 23:49, 26 February 2023
- Box jellyfish is the common name for any of the radially symmetrical, marine invertebrates comprising the Cnidarian class Cubozoa, characterized ...18 KB (2,631 words) - 20:04, 20 November 2023
- Category:Public [[Image:plasma fountain.gif|thumb|300px|right|The Earth's "plasma fountain," showing oxygen, helium, and hydrogen ...17 KB (2,619 words) - 11:09, 6 March 2024
- Rubidium (chemical symbol Rb, atomic number 37) is a soft, silvery-white metallic element of the alkali metal group. Rb-87, a naturally occurring ...14 KB (1,892 words) - 20:57, 21 December 2022
- In organic chemistry, an alkene, olefin, or olefine is an unsaturated chemical compound containing at least one carbon-to-carbon double bond ...13 KB (1,908 words) - 22:30, 4 January 2023
- The carbon cycle is the biogeochemical cycle by which carbon is exchanged between the biosphere, geosphere, hydrosphere, and atmosphere of the ...17 KB (2,593 words) - 23:46, 20 April 2023
- John Blow (1649 – October 1, 1708) was an English composer and organist and is known as the most significant English composer of his time. ...6 KB (993 words) - 16:55, 5 April 2024
- Gerard Manley Hopkins (July 28, 1844 – June 8, 1889) was a British Victorian poet and Jesuit priest. Hopkins sought and struggled to unite ...14 KB (2,348 words) - 20:30, 13 December 2023
- The jaguar (Panthera onca) is a New World mammal of the Felidae family and one of four "big cats" in the Panthera genus, along with ...38 KB (5,659 words) - 01:30, 8 February 2023
- Pyridine is a fundamentally important chemical compound with the formula C5H5N. It is a liquid with a distinctively putrid, fishy odor. Its molecules ...11 KB (1,458 words) - 03:38, 7 December 2022
- Hibiscus is the common name and genus name for a group of about 250 species of shrubs, trees, and herbaceous plants in the mallow family (Malvaceae ...12 KB (1,815 words) - 23:37, 12 February 2022
- Amines are organic compounds and a type of functional group that contain nitrogen as the key atom. Structurally amines resemble ammonia, wherein ...18 KB (2,577 words) - 07:02, 25 July 2023
- Indra is the most important deity in ancient Vedic Hinduism and the supreme deva (god) of the Rigveda scripture. Known as the god of storms and ...18 KB (2,879 words) - 20:00, 4 March 2024
- Dysprosium (chemical symbol Dy, atomic number 66) is a rare earth element that has a metallic, bright silver luster. The term "rare earth ...10 KB (1,193 words) - 17:27, 12 February 2024
- The Hail Mary or Ave Maria (Latin) is a traditional Christian prayer asking for the intercession of the Virgin Mary, the mother of Jesus. In ...12 KB (1,964 words) - 16:45, 21 January 2024
- A cube English cube from Old French, Latin cubus, Greek kubos, "a cube, a die, vertebra." In turn from PIE *keu(b)-, "to bend, ...8 KB (1,139 words) - 06:42, 11 January 2024
- John Lyly (Lilly or Lylie) (c. 1553 – 1606) was an English writer and playwright, best known for his prose romance Euphues and his comedic ...11 KB (1,875 words) - 06:20, 3 August 2022
- 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
- Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell (November 8, 1900 – August 16, 1949) was the American author who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1937 for her immensely ...11 KB (1,758 words) - 04:02, 6 November 2022
- Apatosaurus (Greek ἀπατέλος or ἀπατέλιος, meaning "deceptive" and σαῦρος meaning "lizard"), also ...12 KB (1,721 words) - 01:59, 9 January 2023
- Chloral hydrate is a colorless, solid chemical compound with the formula C2H3Cl3O2. It is soluble in both water and alcohol, readily forming ...12 KB (1,697 words) - 17:07, 10 December 2023
- In geology, the term crust is used for the outermost solid shell of a planet or moon. It is chemically and mechanically different from underlying ...13 KB (1,961 words) - 23:42, 5 May 2022
- Europium (chemical symbol Eu, atomic number 63) is the most reactive of the rare earth elements. The term "rare earth elements" (or ...10 KB (1,254 words) - 04:34, 23 March 2024
- Pumpkin is the common name for large-fruited varieties of several species of trailing and climbing plants of the genus Cucurbita, characterized ...20 KB (2,919 words) - 14:19, 2 July 2022
- The ozone layer is a layer in Earth's atmosphere that contains relatively high concentrations of ozone (O3). It is mainly located in the ...14 KB (2,217 words) - 06:05, 18 November 2022
- The Abbey Theatre, also known as the National Theatre of Ireland, is located in Dublin, Ireland. The Abbey first opened its doors to the public ...16 KB (2,546 words) - 04:42, 14 June 2023
- Sulfuric acid (or sulphuric acid in British English) is a strong mineral acid with the chemical formula H2SO4. It is soluble in water at all ...31 KB (4,778 words) - 21:53, 26 February 2023
- A space habitat, also called a space colony, orbital colony, space city, or space settlement, is a space station intended as a permanent settlement ...20 KB (3,078 words) - 19:03, 7 February 2023
- Basalt is a common, gray to black volcanic rock. It is usually fine-grained due to rapid cooling of lava on the Earth's surface. It may ...16 KB (2,316 words) - 03:22, 1 January 2022
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- Wang Xizhi (Wang Hsi-chih, 王羲之) (303 – 361) was the most celebrated Chinese calligrapher, traditionally referred to as the Sage of Calligraphy ...18 KB (2,906 words) - 22:52, 3 May 2023
- Scandium (chemical symbol Sc, atomic number 21) is a soft, silvery-white metal. Scandium ore occurs in rare minerals from Scandinavia and elsewhere ...12 KB (1,615 words) - 17:06, 25 January 2023
- Roman Witold Ingarden (February 5, 1893 - June 14, 1970), a Polish philosopher and one of the most important philosophers for phenomenological ...16 KB (2,359 words) - 04:50, 16 December 2022
- Sandra Day O'Connor (March 26, 1930 - December 1, 2023) was an American jurist who served as the first female Associate Justice of the Supreme ...45 KB (6,555 words) - 21:58, 19 December 2023
- Chlorine (chemical symbol Cl, atomic number 17) is a nonmetal that belongs to a group of chemical elements known as halogens. At ordinary temperatures ...15 KB (2,040 words) - 17:07, 10 December 2023
- The Book of the Dead is the common name for the ancient Egyptian funerary text known as The Book of Coming [or Going] Forth By Day. This text ...17 KB (2,857 words) - 00:00, 13 February 2024
- Bill Haley (July 6, 1925 - February 9, 1981) was one of the first American rock and roll musicians, brought this form of music into the American ...21 KB (3,146 words) - 16:05, 31 October 2023
- Asbestos describes any member of a group of minerals that can be fibrous, many of which are hydrous magnesium silicates. It is mined from metamorphic ...20 KB (2,941 words) - 18:08, 16 August 2023
- Trigonometry (from Greek Τριγωνομετρία "tri = three" + "gon = angle" + "metr[y] = to measure") is ...19 KB (2,702 words) - 16:52, 2 May 2023
- category:image wanted Soul music is a musical genre that combines rhythm and blues and gospel music and originated in the late 1950s in the United ...11 KB (1,733 words) - 01:19, 4 February 2023
- Sulfur dioxide (also sulphur dioxide) is the chemical compound with the formula SO2. This important gas is the main product from the combustion ...13 KB (1,988 words) - 21:44, 26 February 2023
- Propane is a three-carbon alkane, normally a gas, but compressible to a liquid that is transportable. It is derived from other petroleum products ...13 KB (1,941 words) - 00:08, 2 December 2022
- Category:Image wanted Francis Jean Marcel Poulenc (January 7, 1899 – January 30, 1963) was a French composer and a member of the French group ...8 KB (1,187 words) - 05:16, 30 September 2022
- Gypsum is a very soft mineral composed of calcium sulfate dihydrate, with the chemical formula CaSO4·2H2O. It is widespread in nature and is ...8 KB (1,054 words) - 21:52, 28 July 2023
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- The gas constant (also known as the molar, universal, or ideal gas constant) is a physical constant that is featured in a number of fundamental ...9 KB (1,458 words) - 04:37, 18 April 2024
- Hydrogen cyanide is a chemical compound with the formula HCN. It is a colorless, very poisonous, and highly volatile liquid that boils slightly ...12 KB (1,685 words) - 13:19, 4 February 2023
- category:image wanted Collation is the assembly of written information into a standard order. This is commonly called alphabetization, though ...17 KB (2,611 words) - 22:32, 7 January 2024
- pH is a measure of the acidity and the basicity/alkalinity of a solution in terms of activity of hydrogen (H+) (strictly speaking, there is no ...15 KB (2,240 words) - 15:20, 29 August 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology Category:Illusion [[Image:Mach band.svg|frame|right|Notice the dark band that appears ...4 KB (546 words) - 04:49, 5 November 2022
- Simplicius (c. 470 – c. 560), a disciple of Ammonius Hermiae and of Damascius, was one of the last of the Greek Neoplatonists and polymaths ...9 KB (1,323 words) - 22:13, 29 January 2023
- Rhodium (chemical symbol Rh, atomic number 45) is a rare, silvery-white, inert metal. It is a member of the platinum group of elements and is ...13 KB (1,685 words) - 20:04, 8 December 2022
- The Tale of Igor's Campaign (Old East Slavic language: Слово о плъку Игоревѣ, Slovo o plŭku Igorevě; Modern Ukrainian: ...10 KB (1,577 words) - 17:34, 30 April 2023
- |- | colspan="6" align="center" | *Boron-10 content may be as low as 19.1% and ashigh as 20.3% in natural samples. Boron-11 ...16 KB (2,239 words) - 19:45, 20 November 2023
- Saint Bridget or Bridgid of Sweden (1303 – July 23, 1373), born as Birgitta Birgersdotter and Birgitta of Vadstena, was a Christian mystic ...16 KB (2,415 words) - 23:04, 20 November 2023
- Propylene glycol, also known by the systematic name propane-1,2-diol, is an organic compound with the chemical formula C3H8O2. Under standard ...12 KB (1,732 words) - 00:24, 2 December 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
- Carolina, Baroness Nairne (August 16, 1766 – October 26, 1845), Scottish songwriter, was born in the auld hoose of Gask, Perthshire to Jacobite ...8 KB (1,337 words) - 22:46, 21 October 2022
- 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 ...11 KB (1,532 words) - 08:09, 23 July 2023
- Stegosaur is the common name for any of the various extinct, plated tetrapods (four-legged vertebrates) comprising the taxonomic group Stegosauria ...16 KB (2,303 words) - 17:18, 21 October 2022
- Hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) is a very pale blue liquid which appears colorless in a dilute solution, slightly more viscous than water. It is a weak ...32 KB (4,734 words) - 13:20, 4 February 2023
- Olexandr Petrovych Dovzhenko ( Олександр Петрович Довженко , Александр Петрович Довженко ...12 KB (1,532 words) - 00:07, 18 November 2022
- Alexander Blok Александр Александрович Блок, (November 16, 1880 - August 7, 1921), was probably the most gifted lyrical ...11 KB (1,565 words) - 05:13, 17 June 2023
- Niobium or columbium (chemical symbol Nb, atomic number 41) is a rare, soft, gray metal. It was discovered in a variety of columbite (now called ...14 KB (1,909 words) - 04:59, 15 November 2022
- François Boucher (September 29, 1703 – May 30, 1770) had an unparalleled career as a French painter. His versatility in the popular style ...11 KB (1,576 words) - 04:57, 9 April 2024
