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Kokkosaari

Kokkosaari is the largest island in a lake on an island in a lake in the world. It is located in Kuonanjärvi on the Sääminginsalo island, which has been claimed to be the largest island in Finland. Kokkosaari is almost 2000m long, with a width of 400-900m.

Category:Uninhabited islands of Finland Category:Lake islands of Finland

Adiabatic wall

In thermodynamics, an adiabatic wall between two thermodynamic systems does not allow heat or matter to pass across it.

In theoretical investigations, it is sometimes assumed that one of the two systems is the surroundings of the other. Then it is assumed that the work transferred is reversible within the surroundings, but in thermodynamics it is not assumed that the work transferred is reversible within the system. The assumption of reversibility in the surroundings has the consequence that the quantity of work transferred is well defined by macroscopic variables in the surroundings. Accordingly, the surroundings are sometimes said to have a reversible work reservoir.

Along with the idea of an adiabatic wall is that of an adiabatic enclosure. It is easily possible that a system has some boundary walls that are adiabatic and others that are not. When some are not adiabatic, then the system is not adiabatically enclosed, though adiabatic transfer of energy as work can occur across the adiabatic walls.

The adiabatic enclosure is important because, according to one widely cited author, Herbert Callen, "An essential prerequisite for the measurability of energy is the existence of walls that do not permit the transfer of energy in the form of heat."Callen, H.B. (1960/1985), p. 16. In thermodynamics, it is customary to assume a priori the physical existence of adiabatic enclosures, though it is not customary to label this assumption separately as an axiom or numbered law.

Pasrur

Pasrur , is a city of Sialkot District in the Punjab province of Pakistan. The city is the capital of Pasrur Tehsil and is administratively subdivided into two Union councils.

It is located at 32°16'0N 74°40'0E with an altitude of 238 metres (784 feet). The nearest big cities are Sialkot, Narowal and Gujranwala.

Seed treatment

In agriculture and horticulture, a seed treatment or seed dressing is a chemical, typically antimicrobial or fungidal, with which seeds are treated (or "dressed") prior to planting. Less frequently insecticides are added. Seed treatments can be an environmentally more friendly way of using pesticides as the amounts used can be very small. It is usual to add colour to make treated seed less attractive to birds if spilt and easier to see and clean up in the case of an accidental spillage.

One seed treatment, imidacloprid, from the neonicotinoid family of insecticides, is controversial and was banned in France for use on maize, due to that government's belief that the chemical was implicated in recent dramatic drops in bee counts, and possibly in Colony Collapse Disorder. Dust from treated seed is known to have caused at least some problems particularly from crops such as maize drilled during the main honey flows. Improvements to pneumatic drills to reduce dust release, and improvements to seed treatment compounds to prevent the compound breaking up into dust have been introduced in Europe led by Germany and the Netherlands from 2009 to 2012. Information on seed treatments including the information above can be seen on the registration authority databases.

Seed coating is a thicker form of covering of seed and may contain fertiliser, growth promoters and or seed treatment as well as an inert carrier and a polymer outer shell.

Seed dressing is also used to refer to the process of removing chaff, weed seeds and straw from a seed stock. Care is needed not to confuse the two.

In order to qualify for the United States Department of Agriculture Organic certification, farmers must seek out organic seed. If they cannot find organic seed, they are allowed to use conventional, untreated seed. Treated seed however, is never allowed.

Duvalia

Duvalia is a plant genus in the tribe Stapeliae, milkweed subfamily Asclepiadoideae, in the family Apocynaceae (dogbane). The genus was first described in 1812, named after the French physician and botanist Henri-Auguste Duval (1777-1814). It can be found on the Arabian peninsula, in tropical Africa and South Africa.

The Duvalia species are succulent, perennial plants with low, planar growth. The shoots are clavate, cylindrical to spherical, in cross-section four-, five-or six-edged, and to about 10 inches long. They can range from green, gray to mottled reddish in color. The flower stems are long and bare. The hermaphroditic flowers measure 1-5 cm in diameter, and have five parts. The crown is yellow ocher, brown, red to dark purple. The five corolla lobes are flat or folded along the middle nerve.

Species formerly included

transferred to Mannia

  • Duvalia rupestris now Mannia rupestris
KLOL

KLOL is a Spanish Pop radio station in Houston, Texas that is owned by CBS Radio. Its transmitter is located in Missouri City, Texas, and its studios are located in Greenway Plaza.

Nectanebo

Two pharaohs of Ancient Egypt's 30th dynasty shared the name Nectanebo:

  • Nectanebo I (ruled 380 to 362 BC)
  • Nectanebo II (ruled 360 to 343 BC)
HZ

Hz is the International Standard symbol for Hertz, the unit of frequency

HZ may also stand for:

  • Habitable zone, the distance from a star where a planet can maintain Earth-like life
  • Hazard, a situation that poses a level of threat
  • Haze, METAR code HZ
  • Herero language, ISO 639 alpha-2
  • Herpes zoster, shingles
  • Holden HZ, automobile produced by General Motors Holden in the late 1970s
  • Hrvatske Željeznice, the Croatian national railway (HŽ)
  • HZ (character encoding)
  • SAT Airlines IATA airline designator
  • Saudi Arabia aircraft registration code
  • Horizons: Empire of Istaria
HZ (character encoding)

The HZ character encoding is an encoding of GB2312 that was formerly commonly used in email and USENET postings. It was designed in 1989 by Fung Fung Lee of Stanford University, and subsequently codified in 1995 into RFC 1843.

The HZ, short for Hanzi , encoding was invented to facilitate the use of Chinese characters through e-mail, which at that time only allowed 7-bit characters. Therefore, in lieu of standard ISO 2022 escape sequences (as in the case of ISO-2022-JP) or 8-bit characters (as in the case of EUC), the HZ code uses only printable, 7-bit characters to represent Chinese characters.

It was also popular in USENET networks, which in the late 1980s and early 1990s, generally did not allow transmission of 8-bit characters or escape characters.

Eviota

Eviota is a genus of fish in the family Gobiidae. Together with members of the genus Trimma, they are known commonly as dwarfgobies or pygmygobies. The genus is native to the Indo-Pacific region, where it is distributed from Japan to Australia and from Africa to Pitcairn Island. Species are mainly associated with coral reefs.

Some of these fish are short-lived, with life cycles as brief as 3.5 weeks in the tropics. Some species are hermaphrodites and some representatives live symbiotically among the tentacles of the mushroom coral Heliofungia actiniformis.

Sound-on-Sound

Sound-on-Sound is the sole album by English new wave band Bill Nelson's Red Noise, released in February 1979 by record label Harvest.

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Qarabagh

Qarabagh or Qarah Bagh or Qareh Bagh may refer to:

  • Qarabagh District, Ghazni, in Ghazni Province, Afghanistan
  • Qarabagh District, Kabul, in Kabul Province, Afghanistan
  • Qarah Bagh, North Khorasan, Iran
  • Qarah Bagh, Qazvin, Iran
  • Qarah Bagh, Razavi Khorasan, Iran
  • Qarah Bagh, West Azerbaijan, Iran
  • Qarah Bagh Rural District, in Fars Province, Iran
Obłudzin

Obłudzin is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Płoniawy-Bramura, within Maków County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland. It lies approximately north of Maków Mazowiecki and north of Warsaw.

Usage examples of "obludzin".

Her father had given it to her as it came from the annealing oven, still warm after long hours of cooling with many others like it.

Take up one of the large flagstones behind the annealing oven, and dig a hole underneath it in the ground.

The sunlight streamed through a window high above the floor and fell upon the arched back of the annealing oven, the window being so placed that the sun could never shine upon the working end and dazzle the workmen.

Giovanni moved a step forward and spoke directly to one of the men who had just dropped a finished glass into the bed of soft wood ashes, to be taken to the annealing oven.

In a moment it would be finished and ready to go to the annealing oven, though he was even then reflecting that the workmen would certainly break it up as soon as the foreman turned his back.

In the meantime, fearing lest Giovanni might think of sending him out at any moment, he waited till Pasquale had brought him water in the morning, and then raised the stone, as he had done before, took the box out of the earth and hid it in the cool end of the annealing oven, while he replaced the slab.

When he judged that he had taken out more than half the contents, he took the iron box from the annealing oven.

He would have set it in the annealing oven, but he wished to try the weight of it, and he let it cool.

A marvellous dish with upturned edge and ornamented foot was the next thing he made, and he placed it at once in the annealing oven.

With a forked stick he took the beaker from the ashes and placed it in the annealing oven.

Zorzi had not put it into the annealing oven because it had been allowed to get quite cold, so that the annealing would have been imperfect.

I therefore offered to buy the beaker he was making and I put down a piece of money, and the said Zorzi, called the Ballarin, a liar, a thief and an assassin, took the said piece of money, and set the said beaker within the annealing oven of the said furnace, wherein I saw many other pieces of fine workmanship, and he said that I should have the said beaker when it was annealed.

In the morning, if he drew the iron tray further down the annealing oven, the glass would be ready to be taken out, and Giovanni could take it if he pleased, for he knew whose it was.

When he came to the laboratory, he saw that the window was now shut, as well as the door, and that Giovanni had set the lamp on the floor behind the further end of the annealing oven.

He glanced at the furnace next, and recollected that the precious pieces Zorzi had made were in the annealing oven.