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• Basil
  ...in the Southeast Asian cuisines of Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos. The plant tastes somewhat like anise, with a strong, pungent, sweet smell. ...nger period in the freezer, after being blanched quickly in boiling water. The dried herb also loses most of its flavour, and what little flavour remains
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• Sinus
  '''Sinus''' is Latin for "bay", "pocket", "curve", or "bosom". In anatomy, the term is used in various contexts. ...inuses, which are air cavities in the cranial bones, especially those near the nose and connecting to it.
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• Fallout shelter
  .... Many such shelters were constructed as [[civil defense]] measures during the Cold War. ...ighly radioactive material then falls to earth, subjecting anything within the line of sight to radiation, a significant [[radioactive contamination|hazar
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• United States Navy Hospital Corpsman
  ...tment in a combat environment. Qualified hospital corpsmen may be assigned the responsibility of independent duty aboard ships and submarines; Fleet Marin The colloquial form of address for a Hospital Corpsman is "Doc". In the U.S. Marine Corps, this term is generally used as a sign of respect.
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• 1983 Beirut barracks bombing
  |image=Beirutbarr.jpg|300px|caption=A smoke cloud rises from the rubble of the bombed barracks at Beirut International Airport. ...=2009-05-07|deadurl=no|accessdate=2009-03-08}}</ref>—receiving help from the Islamic Republic of Iran.<ref name=Ranstorp>Ranstorp, ''Hizb'allah'' (1997)
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• USS Absecon (AVP-23)
  ...)|RVNS ''Tham Ngu Lao'' (HQ-15)]] 1972-1975<br/>Has served as [[Vietnamese People's Navy]] patrol vessel [[PRVSN Pham Ngu Lao (HQ-01)|PRVSN ''Pham Ngu Lao'' ...etnam Navy]], and the [[Socialist Republic of Vietnam]]{{'}}s [[Vietnamese People's Navy]].
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• Wood Gas
  ...materials such as [[coal]] in a gasifier or [[wood gas generator]]. It is the result of two high-temperature reactions (above {{convert|700|C}}): an exot ...s are fed with previously pyrolysed char. Wood gas is flammable because of the carbon monoxide, hydrogen, and methane content.
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• Wood gas generator
  ...on by partial combustion of coke, a byproduct of coal, rather than through the town-gas process of destructive distillation (pyrolysis) of coal. ...|distressed economies]]. Some World War II era wood gas generators were of the "Imbert" type. They were designed around 1920 by French inventor Georges Im
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• The Colony (TV series)
  | show_name = The Colony | image = <!--[[File:The colony title card.jpg|250px]]-->
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• AK-630
  ...oalkeeper CIWS|Goalkeeper]] systems, however, the long development time of the AK-630 partially negated this advantage. Once made operational, this weapon ...is in operation on almost all Russian Navy ships from fast attack boats to the [[Soviet_battlecruiser_Kirov|Kirov]] Battlecruiser.
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• 37 mm automatic air defense gun M1939 (61-K)
  |used_by={{flag|Soviet Union}}, <br>{{flag|People's Republic of China}}, <br>{{flag|North Vietnam}}, <br>{{flag|Cambodia}} ...f name="ReferenceA">Shunkov V. N. - ''The Weapons of the Red Army''</ref>. The mean quantity of 37&nbsp;mm ammunition to shoot down one enemy plane was 90
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• Nudelman-Rikhter NR-30
  |caption= The Nudelman-Richter NR-30. ...-30''' was a [[Soviet]] [[cannon]] widely used in [[military aircraft]] of the [[Soviet Union]] and [[Warsaw Pact]]. It was designed by [[A.E. Nudelman]]
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• Ship gun fire-control systems
  ...such as the [[Armament of the Iowa class battleship|USS ''Iowa'']]. After the 1950s, GCFSs were integrated with missile [[fire-control system]]s and othe The major components of a GFCS are a manned [[Director (military)|director]], w
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• Hydroelectric
  ...est hydroelectric power stations|largest hydro-electric power station]] in the world]] ...tion international statistics database</ref> This was approximately 20% of the world's electricity, and accounted for about 88% of electricity from renewa
  39 KB (5,447 words) - 23:02, 2 July 2010
• Quinine
  ...contains two major fused-ring systems: the [[aromatic]] [[quinoline]] and the [[bicyclic]] [[quinuclidine]]. ...f [[Peru]] and [[Bolivia]]; later, the [[Jesuits]] were the first to bring the cinchona to Europe.
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• Naloxone
  ...ioid overdose antidote Naloxone over counter 'will save lives' | publisher=The Guardian | date=29 January 2016 | author=Melissa Davey}}</ref> .../books?id=Rn51BwAAQBAJ&pg=PA191}}</ref> Multiple doses may be required, as the duration of action of most opioids is greater than that of naloxone.<ref na
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• Phenobarbital
  ...first marketed as '''Luminal''' by [[Bayer|Friedr. Bayer et comp]]. It is the most widely used [[anticonvulsant]] worldwide |title=Phenobarbital for the treatment of epilepsy in the 21st century: a critical review
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• Metronidazole
  ...e same tradename '''Flagyl''', in '''Pakistan''' it is also available with the brand name of '''Nidagyl''' manufactured and marketed by '''Star Laboratori Metronidazole is also used as a gel preparation in the treatment of the [[dermatology|dermatological]] conditions such as [[rosacea]] ('''Rozex'''
  19 KB (2,528 words) - 16:43, 27 September 2010
• Fluconazole
  ...unter as '''Alfumet'''. It is marketed under the brand name "candivast" in the Persian Gulf area. ...process to avoid producing any [[Chirality (chemistry)|chiral]] centers in the drug so that subsequent synthesis and purification would not encounter diff
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• Potassium iodide
  ...work with. Aged and impure samples are yellow because of [[oxidation]] of the [[iodide]] to [[iodine]].<ref name=Ullmann>Phyllis A. Lyday "Iodine and Iod ...nistered as a "saturated solution of potassium iodide" ([[SSKI]]) which in the U.S.P. generic formulation contains 1000&nbsp;mg of KI per mL. This represe
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