X-Nico

unusual facts about compound



1996 shelling of Qana

According to a UN report, on April 18, Hezbollah fighters fired two or three Katyusha rockets and between five and eight mortars at Israeli soldiers near the Red Line (the northern limits of the "security zone") from positions about 220 meters southwest and 350 meters southeast of the United Nations compound.

2007 Stanford vs. USC football game

To compound the situation, Stanford's starting quarterback T. C. Ostrander had suffered a seizure the previous week and backup quarterback Tavita Pritchard had never started a game and had only ever thrown three passes.

5-MeO-DPT

Little is known about the subjective effects of 5-MeO-DPT, but the nature of the compound is probably comparable to psilocybin/psilocin, or DPT, which are also psychedelic tryptamines/indoles.

Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry

Never Sorry opens in his studio compound in Beijing, called 258 Fake, home to 40 cats, and follows him from the development of his piece where he researched and posted the names of student victims of the May 2008 earthquake in Sichuan.

Alliinase

The analogous butyl compound, syn-butanethial-S-oxide, is found in Allium siculum species.

Assassination of Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev

Based on these torture allegations and the fact that the two officers were arrested within an extraterritorial compound belonging to the Russian Embassy (i.e. effectively on Russian soil), Russia demanded the immediate release of its citizens; they were represented by the attorney of the law firm founded by Nikolai Yegorov, a friend and fellow student of Vladimir Putin at Leningrad State University.

Berberis swaseyi

The compound leaves place this species in the group sometimes segregated as the genus Mahonia.

BRDT

An experimental pharmaceutical compound known as JQ1 blocks the region of BRDT responsible for chromatin remodeling, resulting in a temporary reduction of sperm production and quality; when tested in mice, the result was a cessation of male fertility that was reversed when use of JQ1 was discontinued.

C10H12O4

Cantharidin, a poisonous chemical compound secreted by many species of blister

C5H9NO3

Aminolevulinic acid, first compound in the porphyrin synthesis pathway

CCL2

For the ICAO airport code see Candle Lake Airpark, for the diradical compound see Dichlorocarbene.

Compound modifier

A compound modifier (also called a compound adjective, phrasal adjective, or adjectival phrase) is a compound of two or more attributive words: That is, more than one word that together modify a noun.

Cosmoline

Notable Egyptologist Dr. Zahi Hawass recently disclosed that ancient Egyptian mummification practices from the third to fifth dynasties utilized a chemical compound molecularly similar to cosmoline.

De La Salle Brothers Philippine District

The location is at the former Perez-Samanillo Compound on 652 Calle Nozaleda in Paco, Manila.

DYNB-TV

and currently is the affiliated station of the Philippine television network AksyonTV; The station is operated and co-owned by TV5, Its studios is located at PLDT Compound, Luna St.

Elephantopin

Elephantopin is a natural chemical compound extracted from the Elephantopus elatus plant of the genus Elephantopus, family Compositae.

ENVIRON

In the United States, the firm has worked with the Marathon Petroleum Company at its major gulf coast refinery in Garyville, Louisiana, to develop VOC BioTreat™, a patent-pending biotreatment solution to reduce volatile organic compound emissions at oil and chemical refineries.

Generalised compound

The amount of generalized compound can be quantified in terms of weight, but more conveniently in terms of C-moles.The concept of strong homeostasis has an intimate relationship with that of generalised compound.

Germanium oxide

Germanium monoxide, GeO, a stable but not well characterised compound containing germanium(II)

Higenamine

Higenamine (norcoclaurine) is a chemical compound found in a variety of plants including Nandina domestica (fruit), Aconitum carmichaelii (root), Asarum heterotropioides, Galium divaricatum (stem and vine), Annona squamosa, and Nelumbo nucifera (lotus seeds).

Himalayan tahr

In 1960, sodium monofluoroacetate (also known as compound 1080) was used to poison tahrs.

Intramolecular Diels–Alder cycloaddition

The compound was isolated from the phytopathogenic fungi Alternaria solani, the cause of “early blight” in tomato and potato plants.

Jerusalem Venture Partners

In 2007, Erel Margalit established a Media Quarter in and around the historical train station compound in Jerusalem.

Kenning

For example, Old Norse poets might replace sverð, the regular word for “sword”, with a more abstract compound such as “wound-hoe” (Egill Skallagrímsson: Höfuðlausn 8), or a genitive phrase such as randa íss “ice of shields” (Einarr Skúlason: ‘Øxarflokkr’ 9).

M4 flame fuel thickening compound

M4 flame fuel thickening compound is a nonhygroscopic thickener, adi-acid aluminum soap of isooctanoic acids derived from isooctyl alcohol or isooctyl aldehyd, which are obtained from the oxidization of petroleum.

Mannargudi

The current temple structure, hall of 1000 pillars, main gopuram(temple gateway tower) and the big compound wall around the temple was built by the king Vijayaraghava Nayak(1532-1575 A.D.).

Maritigrella crozierae

For this reason, it may be of interest to the pharmaceutical industry as a source of this compound which has been approved for medical use in the European Union.

Methyl salicylate

The compound methyl salicylate was first isolated (from the plant Gaultheria procumbens) in 1843 by the French chemist Auguste André Thomas Cahours (1813-1891), who identified it as an ester of salicylic acid and methanol.

Microgadus tomcod

After General Electric dumped polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in the Hudson River from 1947 through 1976, tomcod living in the river were found to have evolved an increased resistance to the compound's toxic effects.

Monochloride

Selenium monochloride, an inorganic compound with the formula Se2Cl2

Morgan Lundin

Morgan Lundin (born 20 May 1969), is an athlete from Sweden, who competes in compound archery.

Neutersol

Neutersol is a brand name for Zinc gluconate (neutralized by Arginine), a compound used to produce infertility in the male dog by chemical disruption of the testicle, intended as an alternative to surgical neutering.

Norpseudoephedrine

Cathine (or D-norpseudoephedrine), the (+)-enantiomer and most widely known form of the compound

Norwogonin

Norwogonin is a flavone, a flavonoid-like chemical compound which is found in Scutellaria baicalensis.

Organochromium chemistry

The first organochromium compound was described in 1919 by Franz Hein.

OSU-6162

OSU-6162 (PNU-96391) is a compound which acts as a partial agonist at both 2A5-HT2A receptors.

Phylloflavan

Phylloflavan is a phenolic compound found in the New Zealand Podocarpaceae Phyllocladus alpinus.

Piroctone olamine

Piroctone olamine, also known as Octopirox (Clariant) and piroctone ethanolamine, is a compound sometimes used in the treatment of fungal infections.

Psychedelic drug

Classical or serotonergic psychedelics (agonists for the LSD (also known as "acid"), psilocin (the active constituent of psilocybin mushrooms, commonly known as "magic mushrooms" or "shrooms"), mescaline (the active constituent of peyote), and DMT (the active constituent of ayahuasca and potentially an endogenous psychedelic compound).

Ralph Helfer

The compound was also used as location for shows such as Daktari and even an episode of Star Trek "Shore Leave".

Rick Mercer Report

Often Mercer will participate in some demonstration related to the location (e.g. driving a TTC bus while visiting the agency's bus compound), with comic results.

Riduan Isamuddin

The three lived in a housing compound in Kampung Sungai Manggis, Banting, Selangor.

Sodium hypophosphite

The United States Drug Enforcement Administration designated sodium hypophosphite as a List I chemical under 21 CFR 1310.02 effective November 17, 2001, specifically mentioning the compound together with several other salts of hypophosphorous acid.

Stool guaiac test

The term guaiac denotes the name of the paper surface used in the test which has a phenolic compound, alpha-guaiaconic acid, that is extracted from the wood resin of Guaiacum trees.

Strictly standardized mean difference

In an HTS assay, one primary goal is to select compounds with a desired size of inhibition or activation effect.

Strike Back: Vengeance

Their first lead to a compound is sidetracked by a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) air strike.

Thalweg

The German word Thalweg (nowadays spelt Talweg) is a compound noun that is built from the German elements Thal (since Duden's orthography reform of 1901 written Tal) meaning valley, and Weg, meaning way.

Union F.C.

Immediately they organized regular informal games at the JOLLY... field inside Meralco compound.

Ustalic acid

Ustalic acid is a naturally occurring chemical compound found in the poisonous mushroom Tricholoma ustale.

Wedelolactone

Wedelolactone is an organic chemical compound classified as a coumestan that occurs in Eclipta alba (false daisy) and in Wedelia calendulacea.


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