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• Type 91 torpedo
  ...[torpedo]] had 450 mm (17-3/4 in) diameter. There were five models of body design and five models of warhead design put into service, with warheads fr ! Main body
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• Dexamethasone
  ...terial meningitis. It then acts to reduce the inflammatory response of the body to the bacteria killed by the antibiotics (bacterial death releases pro-inf ...tal adrenal hyperplasia]] (CAH) in female fetuses. CAH causes a variety of physical abnormalities, notably [[Intersex|ambiguous genitalia]] in girls. Early pre
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• Praziquantel
  ...s]], [[headache]], and malaise. [[Drowsiness]], [[somnolence]], [[fatigue (physical)|fatigue]], and [[Vertigo (medical)|vertigo]] have also been seen. Almost a *Other locations/Body as a whole: Lower back pain, myalgia, arthralgia, fever, sweating, various
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• Lamivudine
  == Physical interaction with [[Tenofovir DF]] == For a child 3 months to 12 years old, about 1.4-2 mg per lb. of body weight twice a day, no more than 150 mg per dose.
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• Sodium nitrite
  ...in Laboratories, Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology, Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Applications, National Research Council.}}</ref> ...lations such as infants may be particularly vulnerable. However, the human body can tolerate fairly high levels of methemoglobin before toxemia sets in. Th
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• Ketamine
  ...ients who were suffering from treatment-resistant depression without other physical or psychiatric illness. ...ociative state, characterised by a sense of detachment from one's physical body and the external world which is known as [[depersonalization]] and [[dereal
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• Metformin
  ...i/content/full/359/15/1577}}</ref> In addition, metformin had no effect on body weight: over the 10-year treatment period, the metformin group gained about ...s no more effective than metformin, and for older individuals with a lower body mass index, metformin was no better than placebo in preventing diabetes.<re
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• Activated carbon
  # '''Physical reactivation''': The precursor is developed into activated carbons using ga ...ously with the chemical activation. Chemical activation is preferred over physical activation owing to the lower temperatures and shorter time needed for acti
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• Aspirin
  ...a uniform chemical formula for all markets, but adapting the packaging and physical aspects for each.<ref>{{Cite news| url=http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/ ...ed clinical trials on adults. 1 g of aspirin, on average, reduced the oral body temperature from {{convert|39.0|C|abbr=on}} to {{convert|37.6|C|abbr=on}} a
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• Dopamine
  Dopamine is biosynthesized in the body (mainly by nervous tissue and the [[adrenal medulla|medulla]] of the [[adre ...e brain, and in relation to [[neurobiology|neurobiological]] theories of [[physical dependence|chemical addiction]] (not to be confused with [[Substance depend
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• Glucose
  ==Physical properties== ...ntaining compounds and [[isomer]]ic forms are digested and taken up by the body in the intestines, including [[:en:starch|starch]], [[:en:glycogen|glycogen
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• Potassium chloride
  ==Physical properties== Potassium is vital in the [[human body]] and oral potassium chloride is the common means to replenish it, although
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• Cortisol
  ...poglycemia]], illness, [[fever]], trauma, [[surgery]], [[fear]], [[pain]], physical exertion or extremes of [[temperature]]. Cortisol levels may also be differ ...ealth/a/cortisol.htm |title=Cortisol and Stress: How Cortisol Affects Your Body, and How To Stay Healthy in the Face of Stress |publisher=Stress.about.com
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• Epinephrine
  ==Actions in the body== As a hormone, epinephrine acts on nearly all body tissues. Its actions vary by tissue type and tissue expression of [[adrener
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• Mercury (element)
  ===Physical properties=== ...gs resulted in the mobilization of a small fraction of the total estimated body mercury. DMSA was able to increase the excretion of mercury to a greater ex
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• Morphine
  ...], [[dihydrocodeine]], tetrahydrothebaine, and [[hydrocodone]]. The human body also produces small amounts of morphine and metabolises it into a number of ...ance dependence|dependence]] develop rapidly, although [[Physical property|physical]] addiction may take several months to develop.
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• Diazepam
  ...depending upon the condition to be treated, the severity of symptoms, the body weight of the patient, and any [[Comorbidity|comorbid]] conditions the pati ...&nbsp;mg per dose taken 2 to 4 times per day, depending on such factors as body weight and condition being treated. For the elderly or people with liver di
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• Taxus baccata
  ...e]]s have the lowest tolerance, with a lethal dose of 200–400&nbsp;mg/kg body weight, but [[cattle]], [[pig]]s, and other livestock are only slightly les ...antage of the natural properties of yew wood since the heartwood resists [[physical compression|compression]] while the sapwood resists stretching. This increa
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• Temazepam
  ...to two-to-four weeks due to concerns of [[drug tolerance|tolerance]] and [[physical dependence|dependence]].<ref name="tembnf">{{cite web |url= http://bnf.org/ ...B. | last4 = Verster | first4 = JC. | title = Effect of hypnotic drugs on body balance and standing steadiness. | journal = Sleep Med Rev | volume = 14 |
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• Propædia
  ...Matter '''1.2.6'''&nbsp;[[Mechanics]]&nbsp;of&nbsp;Particles,&nbsp;[[Rigid Body|Rigid]]&nbsp;and&nbsp;[[Deformation (engineering)|Deformable&nbsp;Bodies]]: ...''&nbsp;The&nbsp;[[Planet]]&nbsp;[[Earth]] '''2.1.2'''&nbsp;Earth’s&nbsp;Physical&nbsp;Properties '''2.1.3'''&nbsp;[[Structure of the Earth|Structure&nbsp;an
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• Mortimer J. Adler
  ...t, the very phrase "[[noncognitive ethics]]" declares that ethics is not a body of knowledge. ...reme form of [[dualism]] that stemmed from such philosophers as [[Plato]] (body and soul) and [[Descartes]] (mind and matter):
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• Imperial Gazetteer of Scotland
  ...ost recent authorities, and forming a complete body of Scottish Geography, Physical, Statistical and Historical."<ref>[http://www.maybole.org/history/Gazatteer ...rough]], [[civil parish]], and [[diocese]], describing their political and physical features and naming the principal people of each place.
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• Encyclopedia of the Brethren of Purity
  ...and those of the Philosophers who have the right view...maintain that the body is only a prison of the soul, or a veil, an intermediary path or an isthmus ...asa'il'' is vast and ranges from mathematics, music, logic, astronomy, the physical and natural sciences, as well as exploring the nature of the soul and inves
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• Homeostasis
  ...l Rev. 1929; 9: 399-431.</ref> and 1932<ref>Cannon WB. ''The Wisdom of the Body''. 1932. W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., New York.</ref><ref>[[Karl Ludwig von ...xotherm]]ic (both [[ectotherm]] and [[poikilotherm]]) animals exhibit wide body temperature variation. Examples of endothermic animals include [[mammals]]
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• Miosis
  | title = Mosby's Guide to Physical Examination ...hormone [[melatonin]], [[Entrainment (chronobiology)|entrainment]] of the body's [[circadian rhythm]]s and regulation of the size of the pupil.
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• Mydriasis
  ...driasis''' is an excessive dilation of the [[pupil]] due to [[disease]], [[Physical trauma|trauma]] or the use of [[drug]]s. Normally, the pupil dilates in the ...[[2C-B]]; and [[Dimethyltryptamine|DMT]], naturally produced by the human body and several hallucinogenic plants, all produce mydriasis by agonizing the [
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• Bingham plastic
  ...'Bingham plastic''' is a [[viscoplastic]] material that behaves as a rigid body at low stresses but flows as a [[viscosity|viscous]] [[fluid]] at high stre ...interaction, creating a weak solid structure, formerly known as a '''false body''', and a certain amount of stress is required to break this structure. On
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• Orthotropic material
  ...nted in physical theories by [[constitutive relation]]s. A large class of physical behaviors can be represented by linear material models that take the form o where <math>\mathbf{d},\mathbf{f}</math> are two vectors representing physical quantities and <math>\boldsymbol{K}</math> is the second-order material ten
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• Ceramic materials
  ...ng" powders into the desired shape, and then [[sintering]] to form a solid body. [[Ceramic forming techniques]] include shaping by hand (sometimes includin The physical properties of any ceramic substance are a direct result of its crystalline
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• Polymer nanocomposite
  The transition from micro- to nano-particles lead to change in its physical as well as chemical properties. Two of the major factors in this are the in ...d, first of all, the guiding of the nanotubes to specific locations in the body by external magnetic fields. '''Super [[paramagnetic]] particles''' are kno
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• Shape memory polymer
  ...ub>perm</sub>'', is the temperature that must be exceeded to establish the physical crosslinks responsible for the permanent shape. The switching segments, on ...g and flow of polymer chains, cross-linking can be used, both chemical and physical.
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• Synthetic biodegradable polymer
  * It is [[metabolized]] in the body after fulfilling its purpose. ...anical properties until it is no longer needed and then be absorbed by the body leaving no trace. The backbone of the polymer is hydrolytically unstable. T
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• Biopolymer
  Kumar, A., et al., "Smart Polymers: Physical Forms & Bioengineering Applications", Progress in Polymer Science, Vol. 32, ...these polymers have ordered branched structures. Starch, for example, is a physical combination of branched and linear polymers (amylopectin and amylose, respe
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• Polypropylene
  ==Chemical and physical properties== ...blow-molding production process. As the melt flow increases, however, some physical properties, like impact strength, will decrease.
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• Micro-encapsulation
  ...rs are the most common. The technique of microencapsulation depends on the physical and chemical properties of the material to be encapsulated.<ref name=cat>{{ ===Physical methods===
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• Polyethylene terephthalate
  ...les a test tube with the bottle-cap threads already molded into place. The body of the tube is significantly thicker, as it will be inflated into its final ...eristics during each recycling cycle, which are detectable by chemical and physical laboratory analysis.
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• Polyethylene glycol
  ...nt molecular weights find use in different applications and have different physical properties (e.g., [[viscosity]]) due to chain length effects, their chemica ...s|author = Tonya Johnson|title = Army Scientists, Engineers develop Liquid Body Armor|url = http://www.militaryinfo.com/news_story.cfm?textnewsid=961|date
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• Double layer (interfacial)
  ...d particle, a gas bubble, a liquid [[droplet]], or a [[porous media|porous body]]. The DL refers to two parallel layers of charge surrounding the object. T ...Helmholtz treated the DL mathematically as a simple capacitor, based on a physical model in which a single layer of ions is adsorbed at the surface.
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• Depleted uranium
  .../> It is weakly radioactive and remains so because of its long [[half-life|physical half-life]] (4.468 billion years for [[uranium-238]]), but has a considerab {{quotation|Annex II to the [[Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material]] 1980 (which became operative on 8 February
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• Metallic bond
  ...on as neutral (non-charged) entities. Metallic bonding accounts for many [[physical properties]] of metals, such as [[Strength of materials|strength]], [[malle ...drawback. It remains a one-electron approximation to a multitudinous many-body problem. In other words, the energy states of each electron are described a
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• Metallurgy
  '''Metallurgy''' is a domain of [[materials science]] that studies the physical and chemical behavior of [[metal]]lic [[Chemical element|elements]], their ...ve to [[In-situ leaching|leaching]]. Leaching dissolves minerals in an ore body and results in an enriched solution. The solution is collected and processe
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• Refractory metals
  ===Physical=== ...rhenium which is [[Close-packing of spheres|hexagonal close-packed]]. Most physical properties of the elements in this group vary significantly because they ar
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• Polystyrene
  ...ufacturing process, XPS does not require facers to maintain its thermal or physical property performance. Thus, it makes a more uniform substitute for [[corrug ...aturally occurring substance in our environment and to date, no regulatory body anywhere in the world has classified styrene as a known human [[carcinogen]
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• Thermal insulation
  ...more of the three mechanisms of [[heat transfer]] and is dependent on the physical properties of the material employed to do this. Clothing is chosen to maintain the temperature of the human body.
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• Coffea
  ...ain of the polysaccharides, making the green coffee bean more resistant to physical breakdown and less soluble in water.<ref>{{cite journal |author=Redgwell RJ ...mical structure.<ref>{{cite book |author=Clifford MN |chapter=Chemical and physical aspects of green coffee and coffee products|editor=Clifford MN, Wilson KC |
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• IWTO
  ...publisher=Woodhead Publishing|isbn=1855731916}}</ref><ref>{{citebook|title=Physical Testing of Textiles |author= B. P. Saville|year=1999|publisher=Woodhead Pub
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• Beeswax
  ...tomical terms of location|ventral]] shield or plate of each segment of the body) on abdominal segments 4 to 7. The size of these wax glands depends on the ==Physical characteristics==
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• Paraffin
  | work =Kaye and Laby Tables of Physical and Chemical Constants | publisher =[[National Physical Laboratory, UK|National Physical Laboratory]]
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• Earthen plaster
  ==Physical composition== Manure serves as a binding agent and gives plaster more body. Manure also contains small fibers that provide additional tensile strengt
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• Sandstone
  ...om suspension; i.e., ceasing to be rolled or bounced along the bottom of a body of water (e.g., seas or rivers) or ground surface (e.g., in a desert or [[e ...rphic]] [[terrain]]s where [[chemical weathering]] is [[subordinate]] to [[physical weathering]].
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