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- 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 (2,342 words) - 16:49, 21 May 2024
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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) - 20:39, 22 June 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
