High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Volisios was a king of the Corieltauvi, a tribe based in the English East Midlands, around the time of the Roman conquest of Britain.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Voriconazole (VFEND, Pfizer) is a triazole antifungal medication that is generally used to treat serious, invasive fungal infections. These are generally seen in patients who are immunocompromised, and include invasive candidiasis, invasive aspergillosis, and certain emerging fungal infections.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! VUF-6002 (JNJ 10191584) is a drug which acts as a potent and selective antagonist at the histamine H4 receptor. It has antiinflammatory and analgesic effects in animal studies of acute inflammation.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Vulcan statue is the largest cast iron statue in the world, and is the city symbol of Birmingham, Alabama, reflecting its roots in the iron and steel industry. The 56-foot (17 m) tall statue depicts the Roman god Vulcan, god of the fire and forge. It was created as Birmingham`s entry for the Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904 World`s Fair) in St. Louis, Missouri. It is the seventh-tallest free-standing statue in the United States.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Walter Noddack (17 August 1893 in Berlin - 7 December 1960 in Berlin) was a German chemist. He, Ida Tacke (who later married Noddack), and Otto Berg reported the discovery of element 43 and element 75 in 1925.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Wardite is a hydrous sodium aluminium phosphate hydroxide mineral with formula: NaAl3(PO4)2(OH)4·2(H2O). Wardite is of interest for its rare crystallography. It crystallizes in the tetragonal trapezohedral class and is one of only a few minerals in that class. Wardite forms vitreous green to bluish green to white to colorless crystals, masses, and fibrous encrustations. It has a Mohs hardness of 5 and a specific gravity of 2.81–2.87.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Water Newton Treasure is a hoard of fourth-century Roman silver, discovered near the Roman town of Durobrivae at Water Newton in the English county of Cambridgeshire. The hoard consisted of 27 silver items and one small gold plaque. Because of inscriptions found on some of the pieces in the collection it has been suggested that they may have been used in a local church, and they therefore comprise the earliest probable group of Christian liturgical silver yet found in the Roman Empire.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Australia is one of many countries that have water fluoridation programs currently operating (see Fluoridation by country). As of March 2012, artificially fluoridated drinking water is provided for 70% or more of the population in all states and territories. The acceptance of the benefits of water fluoridation occurred in Australia in December 1953, roughly two years after acceptance in the United States. Many of Australia`s drinking water supplies subsequently began fluoridation in the 1960s and 1970s. By 1984 almost 66% of the Australian population had access to fluoridated drinking water. Some areas within Australia have natural fluoride levels in the groundwater, which was estimated in 1991...
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Wax refers to a class of chemical compounds that are plastic (malleable) near ambient temperatures. Characteristically, they melt above 45 °C (113 °F) to give a low viscosity liquid. Waxes are insoluble in water but soluble in organic, nonpolar solvents. All waxes are organic compounds, both synthetic and naturally occurring.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! WAY-100,135 is a piperazine drug and research chemical used in scientific studies. It was originally believed to act as a selective 5-HT1A receptor antagonist, but subsequent research demonstrated that it also acts as a partial agonist at the 5-HT1B and 5-HT1D receptors.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Wealden iron industry was located in the Weald of south-eastern England. It was formerly an important industry, producing a large proportion of the bar iron made in England in the 16th century and most British cannon until about 1770. Ironmaking in the Weald used ironstone from various clay beds, and was fuelled by charcoal made from trees in the heavily wooded landscape. The industry in the Weald declined when ironmaking began to be fuelled by coke made from coal, which does not occur accessibly in the area.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Wonoboyo hoard is an important archaeological find of golden and silver artifacts from the 9th century Medang Kingdom in Central Java, Indonesia. It was discovered in October 1990 in Plosokuning hamlet, Wonoboyo village, Klaten, Central Java, near Prambanan.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Woodhouseite belongs to the beudantite group AB3(XO4)(SO4)(OH)6 where A = Ba, Ca, Pb or Sr, B = Al or Fe and X = S, As or P. Minerals in this group are isostructural with each other and also with minerals in the crandallite and alunite groups. They crystallise in the rhombohedral system with space group R3m and crystals are usually either tabular {0001} or pseudo-cubic to pseudo-cuboctahedral. Woodhouseite was named after Professor Charles Douglas Woodhouse (1888–1975), an American mineralogist and mineral collector from the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA, and one-time General Manager of Champion Sillimanite, Inc.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The World Copper Agreement (also called International Copper Cartel) signed March 28, 1935, was an attempt to create a worldwide copper cartel. Uniting African, South American and European producers, the agreement aimed to "bring about better conditions in the production, distribution and marketing of copper throughout the world outside of the United States" through curtailment of production. To supervise the implementation of the agreement and amend breaches of it, the agreement provided for the creation of a Control Committee of 5 members.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Xaliproden (codenamed SR57746) is a drug which acts as a 5HT1A agonist. It has neurotrophic and neuroprotective effects in vitro, and has been proposed for use in the treatment of several neurodegenerative conditions including amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and Alzheimer`s disease.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Xanthine oxidase (XO (sometimes `XAO`), a form of xanthine oxidoreductase that generates reactive oxygen species. Is an enzyme that catalyzes the oxidation of hypoxanthine to xanthine and can further catalyze the oxidation of xanthine to uric acid. This enzyme plays an important role in the catabolism of purines in some species, including humans.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Xanthohumol is a prenylated chalconoid from hops and beer. It has a range of biological properties with potential therapeutic utility.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A xanthonoid is a chemical natural phenolic compound formed from the xanthone backbone. Many members of the Clusiaceae contain xanthonoids.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Xantocillin (INN), also known as xanthocillin X or ophthocillin, was the first reported natural product found to contain the isocyanide functional group. It was first isolated from Penicillium notatum by Westling in 1950 and subsequently from several other sources.