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Chemisorption is a kind of adsorption which involves a chemical reaction between the surface and the adsorbate. New chemical bonds are generated at the adsorbent surface. Examples include macroscopic phenomena that can be very obvious, like corrosion [ clarification needed ] , and subtler effects associated with hete...
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The Chemistry Development Kit ( CDK ) is computer software , a library in the programming language Java , for chemoinformatics and bioinformatics . [ 4 ] [ 5 ] It is available for Windows , Linux , Unix , and macOS . It is free and open-source software distributed under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) 2.0....
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Chemistry Europe (formerly ChemPubSoc Europe) is an organization of 16 chemical societies from 15 European countries, representing over 75,000 chemists. It publishes a family of academic chemistry journals, covering a broad range of disciplines. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Chemistry Europe was founded on the initiative of the German ...
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The Chemistry Federation ( French : Fédération de la Chimie , Fédéchimie) is a trade union representing workers in chemical and related industries in France. The union was established on 24 January 1948, as the National Federation of the Chemical and Glass Industries . Its members had formerly belonged to the Nationa...
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Chemistry Letters is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the Chemical Society of Japan . It specializes in the rapid publication of reviews and letters on all areas of chemistry . The editor-in-chief is Mitsuhiko Shionoya ( University of Tokyo ). According to the Journal Citation Reports , the journal has a...
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The Chemistry and Energy Federation ( French : Fédération Chimie Energie , FCE) is a trade union representing workers in the energy and chemical industries in France. The union was founded in 1997, when the Gas and Electricity Federation merged with the United Federation of Chemistry. Like its predecessors, the union...
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The Chemistry and Non-Metallic Industry Workers' Union ( Serbo-Croatian : Sindikat radnika hemije i nemetala ) was a trade union representing workers in various industries in Yugoslavia . The union was founded in 1974, when the Union of Industrial and Mining Workers was split up. Like its predecessor, it affiliated t...
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Chemistry of Materials is a peer-reviewed scientific journal, published since 1989 by the American Chemical Society . It was founded by Leonard V. Interrante, who was the Editor-in-Chief until 2013. Jillian M. Buriak took over as Editor-in-Chief in January 2014. She was followed by Sara E. Skrabalak , who assumed the p...
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Ascorbic acid is an organic compound with formula C 6 H 8 O 6 , originally called hexuronic acid . It is a white solid, but impure samples can appear yellowish. It dissolves freely in water to give mildly acidic solutions. It is a mild reducing agent . Ascorbic acid exists as two enantiomers (mirror-image isomers ),...
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Wetland chemistry is largely affected by dredging, which can be done for a variety of purposes. Wetlands are areas within floodplains with both terrestrial and aquatic characteristics, including marshes, swamps, bogs, and others. [ 1 ] It has been estimated that they occupy around 2.8x10 6 km 2 , about 2.2% of the Eart...
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Chemists Without Borders is a non-governmental organization involved in international development work designed to solve humanitarian problems through chemistry and related activities. As a public benefit, non-profit organization, the primary goals of Chemists Without Borders include: Chemists Without Borders was fou...
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Chemogenetics is the process by which macromolecules can be engineered to interact with previously unrecognized small molecules. Chemogenetics as a term was originally coined to describe the observed effects of mutations on chalcone isomerase activity on substrate specificities in the flowers of Dianthus caryophyllus ....
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Chemogenomics , or chemical genomics , is the systematic screening of targeted chemical libraries of small molecules against individual drug target families (e.g., GPCRs , nuclear receptors , kinases , proteases , etc.) with the ultimate goal of identification of novel drugs and drug targets. [ 1 ] Typically some membe...
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Chemokine receptors are cytokine receptors found on the surface of certain cells that interact with a type of cytokine called a chemokine . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] There have been 20 distinct chemokine receptors discovered in humans. [ 3 ] Each has a rhodopsin-like 7- transmembrane (7TM) structure and couples to G-protein for sign...
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Chemokinesis is chemically prompted kinesis , a motile response of unicellular prokaryotic or eukaryotic organisms to chemicals that cause the cell to make some kind of change in their migratory/swimming behaviour. Changes involve an increase or decrease of speed, alterations of amplitude or frequency of motile charact...
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Chemometrics is the science of extracting information from chemical systems by data-driven means. Chemometrics is inherently interdisciplinary, using methods frequently employed in core data-analytic disciplines such as multivariate statistics , applied mathematics , and computer science , in order to address problems...
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Chemoproteomics (also known as chemical proteomics ) entails a broad array of techniques used to identify and interrogate protein - small molecule interactions. [ 1 ] Chemoproteomics complements phenotypic drug discovery , a paradigm that aims to discover lead compounds on the basis of alleviating a disease phenotype ,...
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A chemoreceptor , also known as chemosensor , is a specialized sensory receptor which transduces a chemical substance ( endogenous or induced) to generate a biological signal. [ 1 ] This signal may be in the form of an action potential , if the chemoreceptor is a neuron , [ 2 ] or in the form of a neurotransmitter that...
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Chemoselectivity is the preferential reaction of a chemical reagent with one of two or more different functional groups. [ 1 ] In a chemoselective system, a reagent in the presence of an aldehyde and an ester would mostly target the aldehyde, even if it has the option to react with the ester. Chemoselectivity is an ar...
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Chemosphere is a biweekly peer-reviewed scientific journal published since 1972 by Elsevier and covering environmental chemistry . In July 2023, the journal was put on hold in the Web of Science Master Journal List due to quality concerns. [ 1 ] By May 2024, the journal had marked more than 60 papers with expressions ...
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A chemostat (from chem ical environment is stat ic) is a bioreactor to which fresh medium is continuously added, while culture liquid containing left over nutrients, metabolic end products and microorganisms is continuously removed at the same rate to keep the culture volume constant. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] By changing the rate w...
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A chemosterilant is a chemical compound that causes reproductive sterility in an organism. Chemosterilants are particularly useful in controlling the population of species that are known to cause disease, such as insects, or species that are, in general, economically damaging. The sterility induced by chemosterilants c...
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In biochemistry, chemosynthesis is the biological conversion of one or more carbon-containing molecules (usually carbon dioxide or methane ) and nutrients into organic matter using the oxidation of inorganic compounds (e.g., hydrogen gas, hydrogen sulfide ) or ferrous ions as a source of energy, rather than sunlight, a...
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In molecular nanotechnology , chemosynthesis is any chemical synthesis where reactions occur due to random thermal motion, a class which encompasses almost all of modern synthetic chemistry. The human-authored processes of chemical engineering are accordingly represented as biomimicry of the natural phenomena above, a...
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Targeted drug delivery is one of many ways researchers seek to improve drug delivery systems' overall efficacy, safety, and delivery. Within this medical field is a special reversal form of drug delivery called chemotactic drug targeting. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] By using chemical agents to help guide a drug carrier to a specific l...
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Chemotaxis (from chemo- + taxis ) is the movement of an organism or entity in response to a chemical stimulus. [ 1 ] Somatic cells , bacteria , and other single-cell or multicellular organisms direct their movements according to certain chemicals in their environment. This is important for bacteria to find food (e.g., ...
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Chemotaxis receptors are expressed in the surface membrane with diverse dynamics, some of them have long-term characteristics as they are determined genetically, others have short-term moiety as their assembly is induced ad hoc in the presence of the ligand . The diverse feature of the chemotaxis receptors and ligands ...
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Chemotaxis (from chemo- + taxis ) is the movement of an organism or entity in response to a chemical stimulus. [ 1 ] Somatic cells , bacteria , and other single-cell or multicellular organisms direct their movements according to certain chemicals in their environment. This is important for bacteria to find food (e.g., ...
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Chemotaxis assays are experimental tools for evaluation of chemotactic ability of prokaryotic or eukaryotic cells. A wide variety of techniques have been developed. Some techniques are qualitative - allowing an investigator to approximately determine a cell's chemotactic affinity for an analyte - while others are quant...
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Merriam-Webster defines chemotaxonomy as the method of biological classification based on similarities and dissimilarity in the structure of certain compounds among the organisms being classified. Advocates argue that, as proteins are more closely controlled by genes and less subjected to natural selection than the ana...
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Chemotronics is an intersection field of chemistry (especially electrochemistry ) and electronics dealing with the design of electrochemical and optical chemical sensors. [ 1 ] One of pioneers of this field was Alexander Frumkin . [ 2 ]
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A chemotroph is an organism that obtains energy by the oxidation of electron donors in their environments. [ 1 ] These molecules can be organic ( chemoorganotrophs ) or inorganic ( chemolithotrophs ). The chemotroph designation is in contrast to phototrophs , which use photons. Chemotrophs can be either autotrophic or ...
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A chemotype (sometimes chemovar ) is a chemically distinct entity in a plant or microorganism , with differences in the composition of the secondary metabolites . Minor genetic and epigenetic changes with little or no effect on morphology or anatomy may produce large changes in the chemical phenotype . Chemotypes are o...
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The Chen-Kao reaction (named after Ko Kuei Chen and Chung-Hsi Kao , Madison, Wisconsin 1926) [ 1 ] [ 2 ] is a chemical method for determining the presence of pseudoephedrine , ephedrine , and similar phenylalkylamines . [ 3 ] The reaction is used in spot tests and is also known as Chen-Kao test (or simply as Chen, Test...
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The School of Principle ( simplified Chinese : 理学 ; traditional Chinese : 理學 ; pinyin : Lǐxué ), or the Cheng–Zhu School ( Chinese : 程朱理學 ; pinyin : Chéng Zhū lǐxué ), is one of the major philosophical schools of Neo-Confucianism , based on the ideas of the Neo-Confucian philosophers Cheng Yi , Cheng Hao , and Zhu Xi ....
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In information geometry , Chentsov's theorem states that the Fisher information metric is, up to rescaling, the unique Riemannian metric on a statistical manifold that is invariant under sufficient statistics . The theorem is named after mathematician Nikolai Chentsov , who proved it in his 1981 paper.
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Chen–Ho encoding is a memory-efficient alternate system of binary encoding for decimal digits. The traditional system of binary encoding for decimal digits, known as binary-coded decimal (BCD), uses four bits to encode each digit, resulting in significant wastage of binary data bandwidth (since four bits can store 16 ...
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Cheonsang Yeolcha Bunyajido ( Korean : 천상열차분야지도 ; Hanja : 天象列次分野之圖 ; Korean pronunciation: [t͡ɕʰʌnsɐŋ jʌɭt͡ɕʰɐ puȵɐd͡ʑido] ) is a fourteenth-century Korean star map , copies of which were spread nationwide in the Joseon Dynasty . The name is sometimes translated as the "chart of the constellations and the regions they ...
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The Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory ( CTAO ) is a multinational project to build a new generation of ground-based gamma-ray instruments in the energy range extending from some tens of GeV to about 300 TeV . It is proposed as an open observatory and will consist of two arrays of imaging atmospheric Cherenkov teles...
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Cherenkov radiation ( / tʃ ə ˈ r ɛ ŋ k ɒ f / [ 1 ] ) is electromagnetic radiation emitted when a charged particle (such as an electron ) passes through a dielectric medium (such as distilled water ) at a speed greater than the phase velocity (speed of propagation of a wavefront in a medium) of light in that medium. [ 2...
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The Chernobyl disaster remains the major and most detrimental nuclear catastrophe which completely altered the radioactive background of the Northern Hemisphere . It happened in April 1986 on the territory of the former Soviet Union (modern Ukraine ). The catastrophe led to the increase of radiation in nearly one milli...
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Cherry Mavis Hill , MBE (née Hinds , 16 November 1931 – 4 December 2024) was an English model engineer known for her detailed scale models of steam vehicles. Hill won the Duke of Edinburgh award nine times, the Bradbury Winter Memorial Trophy eight times, and was awarded an MBE (Member of the British Empire) by the Que...
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" Cheryl's Birthday " is a logic puzzle , specifically a knowledge puzzle. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The objective is to determine the birthday of a girl named Cheryl using a handful of clues given to her friends Albert and Bernard. Written by Dr Joseph Yeo Boon Wooi of Singapore 's National Institute of Education , the question was...
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Chesley Knight Bonestell Jr. (January 1, 1888 – June 11, 1986) was an American painter, designer, and illustrator. [ 2 ] His paintings inspired the American space program , and they have been (and remain) influential in science fiction art and illustration. A pioneering creator of astronomical art, along with the Frenc...
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The chessboard paradox [ 1 ] [ 2 ] or paradox of Loyd and Schlömilch [ 3 ] is a falsidical paradox based on an optical illusion. A chessboard or a square with a side length of 8 units is cut into four pieces. Those four pieces are used to form a rectangle with side lengths of 13 and 5 units. Hence the combined area of ...
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The Manly-Chesson's Index (or Manly's alpha, or Chesson's index) refers to an index to determine selective feeding on discrete food items. It was described separately by Bryan F. J. Manly and Jean Chesson in the 1970s. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It was initially described for two different food types, but was later extended to includ...
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A timing chest or valve chest is a compartment on an internal or external combustion engine (e.g. gasoline or steam engine ) which provides access to the tappets and valves. The chest is fitted with an inspection cover sealed with a gasket . This article about an automotive technology is a stub . You can help Wikipedi...
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Chester Louis Sutula is an American scientist from Erie, Pennsylvania , US. [ 1 ] Chester (Chet) Sutula obtained his Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry from the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1954 and his Ph.D. degree in physical chemistry from Iowa State University , Ames, Iowa in 1959....
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Chesterford Park Research Station was a crop protection research centre in Essex. It is now a science park with biotechnology companies. The 808 acres of the Chesterford Park Estate was put up for sale in June 1950, [ 1 ] owned by Werner Göthe since around 1930. Pest Control Ltd of Bourn in south-west Cambridgeshire ...
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Chet T. Moritz is an American neural engineer, neuroscientist , physiologist, and academic researcher. He is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and holds joint appointments in the School of Medicine departments of Rehabilitation Medicine, and Physiology & Biophysics at the University of Washington . [ ...
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The Chetaev instability theorem for dynamical systems states that if there exists, for the system x ˙ = X ( x ) {\displaystyle {\dot {\textbf {x}}}=X({\textbf {x}})} with an equilibrium point at the origin, a continuously differentiable function V( x ) such that then the origin is an unstable equilibrium point of the ...
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Cheugugi (Hangul: 측우기, Hanja: 測雨器) is the first well-known rain gauge invented and used during the Joseon dynasty of Korea . It was invented and supplied to each provincial offices during the King Sejong the Great 's reign. As of 2010, only one example of the Cheugugi remains, known as the Geumyeong Cheugugi (Hangul: 금...
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In information theory , the Cheung–Marks theorem , [ 1 ] named after K. F. Cheung and Robert J. Marks II , specifies conditions [ 2 ] where restoration of a signal by the sampling theorem can become ill-posed . It offers conditions whereby "reconstruction error with unbounded variance [results] when a bounded variance ...
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In mathematics, a Chevalley basis for a simple complex Lie algebra is a basis constructed by Claude Chevalley with the property that all structure constants are integers. Chevalley used these bases to construct analogues of Lie groups over finite fields , called Chevalley groups . The Chevalley basis is the Cartan-Wey...
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In number theory, the Chevalley–Warning theorem implies that certain polynomial equations in sufficiently many variables over a finite field have solutions. It was proved by Ewald Warning ( 1935 ) and a slightly weaker form of the theorem, known as Chevalley's theorem , was proved by Chevalley ( 1935 ). Chevalley's the...
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Chevron CRUSH is an experimental in situ shale oil extraction technology to convert kerogen in oil shale to shale oil . The name stands for Chevron's Technology for the Recovery and Upgrading of Oil from Shale. It is developed jointly by Chevron Corporation and the Los Alamos National Laboratory . [ 1 ] The Chevron CR...
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The Chevron STB process (also known as Staged Turbulent Bed Retorting Process ) is an above-ground shale oil extraction technology. It is classified as a hot recycled solids technology. [ 1 ] The Chevron STB process is a hot recycled solids technology, which processes small particles of oil shale . It was invented by...
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Cheyava Falls is a rock discovered on Mars by NASA's Perseverance rover during its exploration of the Jezero Crater . This rock, named after a Grand Canyon waterfall, has drawn significant attention due to its potential as an indicator of ancient life on Mars . The rover's instruments detected organic compounds within ...
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ChiRP-Seq (Chromatin Isolation by RNA purification) is a high-throughput sequencing method to discover regions of the genome which are bound by a specific RNA (or by a ribonucleoprotein containing the RNA of interest). Recent studies have shown that a significant proportion of some genomes (including mouse and human g...
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Chi Epsilon ( ΧΕ ) is an American collegiate civil engineering honor society . [ 1 ] It honors engineering students who have exemplified the "principles of scholarship, character, practicality, and sociability...in the civil engineering profession." [ 2 ] As of 2023, there are 141 chapters, of which 137 are active, whe...
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A Chi site or Chi sequence is a short stretch of DNA in the genome of a bacterium near which homologous recombination is more likely to occur than on average across the genome. Chi sites serve as stimulators of DNA double-strand break repair in bacteria, which can arise from radiation or chemical treatments, or result ...
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The Chialvo map is a two-dimensional map proposed by Dante R. Chialvo in 1995 [ 1 ] to describe the generic dynamics of excitable systems. The model is inspired by Kunihiko Kaneko's Coupled map lattice numerical approach which considers time and space as discrete variables but state as a continuous one. Later on Rulko...
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In genetics , a chiasma ( pl. : chiasmata ) is the point of contact, the physical link, between two (non-sister) chromatids belonging to homologous chromosomes . At a given chiasma, an exchange of genetic material can occur between both chromatids, what is called a chromosomal crossover , but this is much more frequent...
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Chibaite is a rare silicate mineral . It is a silica clathrate with formula SiO 2 •n(CH 4 ,C 2 H 6 ,C 3 H 8 ,i-C 4 H 10 ) (n = 3/17 (max)). The mineral is cubic (diploidal class, m 3 ) and the silica hosts or traps various hydrocarbon molecules , such as methane , ethane , propane and isobutane . [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Chibaite ...
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The Chicago Lake Tunnel was the first of several tunnels built from the city of Chicago 's shore on Lake Michigan two miles out into the lake to access unpolluted fresh water far from the city's sewage. [ 1 ] In the early decades of its existence, the growing city was only about three feet above the surface of Lake Mi...
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The Chicago Tylenol murders were a series of poisoning deaths resulting from drug tampering in the Chicago metropolitan area in 1982. The victims consumed Tylenol-branded acetaminophen capsules that had been laced with potassium cyanide . Seven people died in the original poisonings, and there were several more deaths ...
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The Chichibabin pyridine synthesis ( / ˈ tʃ iː tʃ iː ˌ b eɪ b iː n / ) is a method for synthesizing pyridine rings. The reaction involves the condensation reaction of aldehydes , ketones , α,β-unsaturated carbonyl compounds , or any combination of the above, with ammonia . [ 1 ] It was reported by Aleksei Chichibabin i...
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In chemistry , the term chicken wire is used in different contexts. Most of them relate to the similarity of the regular hexagonal ( honeycomb -like) patterns found in certain chemical compounds to the mesh structure commonly seen in real chicken wire . Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons or graphenes —including fulleren...
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Chief information officer ( CIO ), chief digital information officer ( CDIO ) or information technology ( IT ) director , is a job title commonly given to the most senior executive in an enterprise who works with information technology and computer systems, in order to support enterprise goals. Normally, the CIO repor...
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A chief information officer in higher education is the senior executive who is responsible for information and communications technology in the university, college or other higher education institution. The position may not necessarily be called a CIO in some institutions. The CIO title is often coupled with Vice Presi...
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The chief networking officer ( CNO ) is a business networking position in a company or organization. The term refers less commonly to a technical executive position in the computer industry . In the business networking context, a chief networking officer manages the social capital of a company. The CNO connects people...
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The Children's Environmental Exposure Research Study (or CHEERS ) was a study conducted by the United States Environmental Protection Agency designed to examine how children may be exposed to pesticides and other chemicals used in U.S. households, such as phthalates , brominated flame retardants , and perfluorinated co...
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CHW , formerly ChileHardware , was a Spanish language computer hardware review web site. The site was founded by Christian Montero, Felipe Figueroa and Juan Pablo Adaro, in January 2004 to help and show people new technologies. The site is based in South America, and writes about information technology trade shows, dai...
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Chilled water is a commodity often used to cool a building's air and equipment, especially in situations where many individual rooms must be controlled separately, such as a hotel. The chilled water can be supplied by a vendor, such as a public utility , or created at the location of the building that will use it, whic...
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A chiller is a machine that removes heat from a liquid coolant via a vapor-compression , adsorption refrigeration , or absorption refrigeration cycles. This liquid can then be circulated through a heat exchanger to cool equipment, or another process stream (such as air or process water). As a necessary by-product, refr...
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Chilton–Colburn J-factor analogy (also known as the modified Reynolds analogy [ 1 ] ) is a successful and widely used analogy between heat , momentum , and mass transfer . The basic mechanisms and mathematics of heat, mass, and momentum transport are essentially the same. Among many analogies (like Reynolds analogy , P...
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ChimerDB in computational biology is a database of fusion sequences . [ 1 ] ChimerDB currently consists of three searchable datasets. [ 2 ] This Biological database -related article is a stub . You can help Wikipedia by expanding it .
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A genetic chimerism or chimera ( / k aɪ ˈ m ɪər ə / ky- MEER -ə or / k ɪ ˈ m ɪər ə / kim- EER -ə ) is a single organism composed of cells of different genotypes . Animal chimeras can be produced by the fusion of two (or more) embryos . In plants and some animal chimeras, mosaicism involves distinct types of tissue that...
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In molecular biology , and more importantly high-throughput DNA sequencing , a chimera is a single DNA sequence originating when multiple transcripts or DNA sequences get joined. Chimeras can be considered artifacts and be filtered out from the data during processing [ 1 ] to prevent spurious inferences of biological v...
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A chimera or chimeric virus is a virus that contains genetic material derived from two or more distinct viruses. It is defined by the Center for Veterinary Biologics (part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service ) as a "new hybrid microorganism created by joining nucleic acid ...
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Chimeric genes (literally, made of parts from different sources) form through the combination of portions of two or more coding sequences to produce new genes. These mutations are distinct from fusion genes which merge whole gene sequences into a single reading frame and often retain their original functions. Chimeri...
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Chimeric small molecule therapeutics are a class of drugs designed with multiple active domains to operate outside of the typical protein inhibition model. While most small molecule drugs inhibit target proteins by binding their active site , chimerics form protein-protein ternary structures to induce degradation or, l...
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The Chimpanzee Genome Project was an effort to determine the DNA sequence of the chimpanzee genome . Sequencing began in 2005 and by 2013 twenty-four individual chimpanzees had been sequenced. This project was folded into the Great Ape Genome Project . [ 1 ] In 2013 high resolution sequences were published from each o...
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The China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) is a longitudinal survey being conducted by the China Center for Economic Research at Peking University with Professor Yaohui Zhao of Peking University serving as Principal Investigator and Professors John Strauss of the University of Southern California and A...
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The China National Clearing Center ( CNCC , Chinese : 中国人民银行清算总中心 , lit. ' People's Bank of China Clearing Center ' ) is a non-profit public institution administered by the People's Bank of China and created in May 1990. [ 1 ] : 22 It runs several of China's key payment systems . [ 2 ] [ 3 ] : 15 Specifically, the CNC...
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The China Pollution Map Database has been developed by the Institute of Public & Environmental Affairs (IPE), a registered non-profit organization based in Beijing , China, since its founding in May 2006. Its purpose is to monitor corporate environmental performance, pinpoint geographical locations of pollution sources...
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The Rescue and Salvage Bureau of the Ministry of Transport of the People's Republic of China (中华人民共和国交通运输部救助打捞局) (short form, China Rescue and Salvage ) is an institution directly under the Ministry of Transport of the People's Republic of China . It is the most important maritime rescue and salvage organization in Chi...
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The China Zebrafish Resource Center (CZRC) is a non-profit organization located in 7 Donghu South Road, Wuhan, Focusing mainly on zebrafish resources. It was established in the Institute of Hydrobiology , Chinese Academy of Sciences , in October 2012, currently headed by the board chairman Meng Anming . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] CZ...
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Chindōgu ( 珍道具 ) is the practice of inventing ingenious everyday gadgets that seem to be ideal solutions to particular problems, but which may cause more problems than they solve. The term is of Japanese origin. [ 1 ] Literally translated, chindōgu means unusual ( 珍 , chin ) tool ( 道具 , dōgu ) . The term was coined by...
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A chine in boat design is a sharp change in angle in the cross section of a hull . The chine typically arises from the use of sheet materials (such as sheet metal or marine ply ) as the mode of construction. Using sheet materials in boat construction is cheap and simple, but whereas these sheet materials are flexible ...
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Founded in 1981, the Chinese American Chemical Society (CACS) is a nonprofit , professional organization that has neither national nor regional political affiliation. Membership is open to professionals and students in chemistry , chemical engineering , and related fields, as well as to individuals and corporations sup...
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The Chinese Academy of Engineering ( CAE , Chinese : 中国工程院 ; pinyin : Zhōngguó Gōngchéng Yuàn ) is the national academy of the People's Republic of China for engineering . It was established in 1994 and is an institution of the State Council of China . The CAE and the Chinese Academy of Sciences are often referred to ...
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The Chinese Ceramic Society ( simplified Chinese : 中国硅酸盐学会 ; traditional Chinese : 中國硅酸鹽學會 ; pinyin : Zhōngguó Guīsuānyán Xuéhuì ; abbreviated CCS ) of Beijing is a Chinese non-profit professional body and learned society in the field of Chinese ceramics with a focus on scientific research , emerging technologies, and ...
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The Chinese Chemical Society ( CCS ; simplified Chinese : 中国化学会 ; traditional Chinese : 中國化學會 ) is a professional society of chemists headquartered in Beijing . It is part of the China Association for Science and Technology . Current membership is at around 55,000. The CCS was founded in Nanjing on August 4, 1932. It...
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Chinese H-alpha Solar Explorer ( CHASE ), also named Xihe ( Chinese : 羲和 ) after the solar deity , [ 1 ] is China's first solar observatory. It was launched aboard a Long March 2D rocket on 14 October 2021. CHASE is a 508 kg (1,120 lb) satellite operating at a 517-kilometer-altitude Sun-synchronous orbit , with an orbi...
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The Chinese Information Processing Society of China (CIPS) ( simplified Chinese : 中国中文信息学会 ; traditional Chinese : 中國中文資訊學 ; pinyin : Zhōngguó Zhōngwén Xìnxī Xuéhuì ) is a national academic association in Chinese language technology in the People's Republic of China . It was established in June 1981 and is supervised b...
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Chinese Institute of Engineers USA (CIE / USA) is a non-profit , non-political organization serving the engineering community in the United States . CIE was founded in 1917 in New York . [ 1 ] Recognizing the need for engineers to help modernize China in early 20th century, students were sent abroad to study science a...
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The Chinese Materials Research Society ( simplified Chinese : 中国材料研究学会 ; traditional Chinese : 中國材料研究學會 ; pinyin : Zhōngguó Yánjiū Xuéhuì ; abbreviated C-MRS ) is a professional body and learned society in the field of materials science and engineering in China, founded on May 16, 1991. As of 2019, the society has 9 su...
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