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• Ice
  ...ale, but before appropriate coolants were developed ice was harvested from natural sources for human use. ...became known as the “Ice King,” worked on developing better insulation products for the long distance shipment of ice, especially to the tropics. The adven
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• Fallout shelter
  ...s tornadoes and hurricanes, although Switzerland is rarely subject to such natural phenomena. ...ends to be more long lived because the majority of the short lived fission products will have had time to decay.
  24 KB (3,899 words) - 19:58, 11 June 2010
• Sugar beet
  ...tion by the EU executive body allows unrestricted imports of food and feed products made from (H7-1) glyphosate-tolerant (Roundup Ready) sugarbeets. On Septem ...t sugars. These can undergo further breakdown into acids. These breakdown products are not only losses of sucrose but also have knock-on effects reducing the
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• Soap
  ...and Germans men are likelier to use it than women.<ref>Pliny the Elder, ''Natural History'', [http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/L/Roman/Texts/Pliny_the_Eld ...and sometimes attributed to Charlemagne, mentions soap as being one of the products the stewards of estates are to tally. Soap-making is mentioned both as "wom
  20 KB (3,140 words) - 22:41, 17 June 2010
• Quinine
  ...({{IPA-en|ˈkwaɪnaɪn|US}}, {{IPA-en|ˈkwɪniːn, kwɪˈniːn|UK}}) is a natural white [[crystal]]line [[alkaloid]] having [[antipyretic]] (fever-reducing), ...thesized]] in the lab, the bark of the [[cinchona]] tree is the only known natural source of quinine. The medicinal properties of the cinchona tree were origi
  27 KB (3,844 words) - 16:41, 27 September 2010
• Chloramphenicol
  [[Category:Halogen-containing natural products]]
  29 KB (3,876 words) - 16:42, 27 September 2010
• Vancomycin
  ...-471-49641-3">{{cite book |author=Dewick, Paul M. |title=Medicinal natural products: a biosynthetic approach |publisher=Wiley |location=New York |year=2002 |pa
  31 KB (4,198 words) - 16:43, 27 September 2010
• Griseofulvin
  [[Category:Halogen-containing natural products]]
  5 KB (678 words) - 14:58, 19 September 2010
• Potassium iodide
  This reaction is employed in the isolation of iodine from natural sources. Air will oxidize iodide, as evidenced by the observation of a pur ...e from the thyroid gland.<ref>[http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/druginfo/natural/patient-iodine.html "Iodine."] ''MedlinePlus''.</ref> The dose typically
  23 KB (3,281 words) - 16:44, 27 September 2010
• Didanosine
  ...ey were awarded patents on these activities. Since the NCI does not market products directly, the [[National Institutes of Health]] (NIH) awarded a ten-year ex ...corporation and inhibits viral [[reverse transcriptase]] by competing with natural [[Adenosine triphosphate|dATP]].
  9 KB (1,239 words) - 16:44, 27 September 2010
• Ribavirin
  ...ticals International]]. The only present FDA-approved indication for these products is in conjunction with interferon against chronic hepatitis C with hepatic Classically ribavirin is prepared from natural <small>D</small>-ribose by blocking the 2', 3' and 5' OH groups with benzyl
  23 KB (3,222 words) - 16:45, 27 September 2010
• Codeine
  ...' ([[International Nonproprietary Name|INN]]) or '''3-methylmorphine''' (a natural isomer of methylated morphine, the other being the semi-synthetic [[heteroc ...-the-board shortages of illicit and licit opiates because of a scarcity of natural opium, poppy straw, and other sources of opium alkaloids, and the geopoliti
  40 KB (5,581 words) - 16:45, 27 September 2010
• Ciprofloxacin
  ...ved uses (off-label). Ciprofloxacin interacts with other drugs, herbal and natural supplements, and thyroid medications.<ref>{{cite journal |author=Cooper JG, ...authorlink= |title=Commercial Perspectives: Fluoroquinolones - Established Products Drive Market Growth |url=https://www.leaddiscovery.co.uk/reports/843/Commer
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• Activated carbon
  Activated carbons are complex products which are difficult to classify on the basis of their behaviour, surface ch ...c water. Drinking water can be obtained from natural water by treating the natural water with a mixture of activated carbon and [[Aluminium hydroxide|Al(OH)<s
  41 KB (5,738 words) - 16:47, 27 September 2010
• Acetic acid
  ...al]] feedstocks or from biological sources. Dilute acetic acid produced by natural fermentation is called [[vinegar]]. [[Vinegar]] was known early in civilization as the natural result of air exposure of [[beer]] and [[wine]], as acetic acid-producing b
  41 KB (5,915 words) - 16:49, 27 September 2010
• Potassium chloride
  | ExternalMSDS = [http://www.ilo.org/public/english/protection/safework/cis/products/icsc/dtasht/_icsc14/icsc1450.htm ICSC 1450] ...] source for [[calibration]] of [[radiation monitoring equipment]] because natural potassium contains 0.0118% of the [[isotope]] ⁴⁰K. One [[kilogra
  14 KB (1,921 words) - 16:49, 27 September 2010
• Cortisol
  ...sis]]. Although cortisol secretion in response to stress is a [[endogenous|natural]] function, prolonged cortisol secretion due to [[chronic stress]] could re ...hydrocortisone on some human blood lymphocyte subpopulations. I. Effect on natural killer cell activity |journal=Scand. J. Immunol. |volume=13 |issue=6 |pages
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• Nitrous oxide
  | ExternalMSDS = [http://www.ilo.org/public/english/protection/safework/cis/products/icsc/dtasht/_icsc00/icsc0067.htm Ilo.org], ICSC 0067 The gas was first synthesized by [[English people|English]] [[natural philosopher]] and chemist [[Joseph Priestley]] in 1772, who called it ''phl
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• Mercury (element)
  ...toxics.usgs.gov/pubs/FS-051-02/|title=Glacial Ice Cores Reveal A Record of Natural and Anthropogenic Atmospheric Mercury Deposition for the Last 270 Years|pub Natural sources, such as [[volcano]]es, are responsible for approximately half of a
  69 KB (10,077 words) - 21:35, 20 September 2010
• Morphine
  *Experimentally for refractory depression. Morphine, hydromorphone, opium products and the like were used ''on-label'' for depression from antiquity or prehis ...employ a hydrolysis step prior to quantitation that converts the metabolic products to morphine, yielding a result that may be many times larger than with a me
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