Any compound formally derived from a fullerene by replacing one or more carbon atom by a heteroatom.
"Such heterofullerenes are expected to have applications in superconductivity."
by CToad7 ALT March 10, 2023
An Overseas Territory of the United Kingdom situated in the Indian Ocean, halfway between Tanzania and Indonesia. The territory comprises the seven atolls of the Chagos Archipelago with over 1,000 individual islands (many very small) amounting to a total land area of 60 square kilometres (23 square miles). The largest and most southerly island is Diego Garcia, 27 square kilometres (10 square miles), the site of a Joint Military Facility of the United Kingdom and the United States.
"The only inhabitants in British Indian Ocean Territory are British and United States military personnel, and associated contractors, who collectively number around 3,000 as of 2018."
by CToad7 ALT March 13, 2023
by CToad7 ALT March 14, 2023
"Why is there a welcome-home-husband-though-never-so-drunk on your roof?"
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by CToad7 ALT March 14, 2023
(plural: carboxymethylcelluloses)
(alternative form: carboxymethyl cellulose)
A cellulose derivative with carboxymethyl groups bound to some of the hydroxyl groups of the glucopyranose monomers that make up the cellulose backbone. It is often used as its sodium salt, sodium carboxymethylcellulose. It used to be marketed under the name Tylose, a registered trademark of SE Tylose.
(alternative form: carboxymethyl cellulose)
A cellulose derivative with carboxymethyl groups bound to some of the hydroxyl groups of the glucopyranose monomers that make up the cellulose backbone. It is often used as its sodium salt, sodium carboxymethylcellulose. It used to be marketed under the name Tylose, a registered trademark of SE Tylose.
by CToad7 ALT March 15, 2023
(plural: monochromators)
An optical device, consisting of one or more slits, that selects a narrow band of wavelengths from a broader spectrum.
An optical device, consisting of one or more slits, that selects a narrow band of wavelengths from a broader spectrum.
by CToad7 ALT March 15, 2023
(plural: stereoelectroencephalographies)
The practice of recording electroencephalographic signals via depth electrodes (electrodes surgically implanted into the brain tissue).
The practice of recording electroencephalographic signals via depth electrodes (electrodes surgically implanted into the brain tissue).
"Stereoelectroencephalography may be used in patients with epilepsy not responding to medical treatment, and who are potential candidates to receive brain surgery in order to control seizures."
by CToad7 ALT March 17, 2023