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• Enalapril
  | elimination_half-life = 11 hours (enalaprilat) ...half-life 2 to 6 hours) and a subsequent prolonged phase (elimination half-life 36 hours), the latter representing equilibration of drug from tissue distri
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• Sodium nitroprusside
  ...nitroprusside is 1–2 minutes although thiocyanate has an excretion half life of several days.
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• Digoxin
  | elimination_half-life = 36 to 48 [[hour]]s <br /><small>(patients with normal [[renal function]]) ...lity]] in [[congestive heart failure]]. It is shown to increase quality of life, however.
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• Dopamine
  ...r than the NET pathway: in mice, dopamine concentrations decay with a half-life of 200 ms in the caudate nucleus (which uses the DAT1 pathway) versus 2,000 ...er N, Stewart J.The role of dopamine in the nucleus accumbens in analgesia.Life Sci. 1999;65(22):2269-87</ref> [[insular cortex]],<ref>Burkey AR, Carstens
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• Acetic acid
  ...rived from acetic acid, is fundamental to the biochemistry of all forms of life. When bound to [[coenzyme A]], it is central to the [[metabolism]] of [[car ...acid is estimated at 5&nbsp;Mt/a (million tonnes per year), approximately half of which is produced in the [[United States]]. [[Europe]]an production stan
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• Sodium stibogluconate
  | elimination_half-life = ...te is to dilute it in a large amount of fluid which then runs through over half an hour or so.
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• Salbutamol
  | elimination_half-life = 1.6 hours
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• Cortisol
  | elimination_half-life = Cortisol also acts as an anti-diuretic hormone. Half the intestinal diuresis is so controlled.<ref name="pmid7323700"/> Kidney d
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• Ibuprofen
  | elimination_half-life = 1.8–2 h ...s, which is longer than suggested by its short [[Biological half-life|half-life]]. The recommended dose varies with body mass and indication. Generally,
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• Mercury (element)
  ...with a half-life of 46.612 days. Most of the remaining radioisotopes have half-lives that are less than a day. {{chem|199|Hg}} and {{chem|201|Hg}} are the ...ailure]], [[poison]]ing, and [[brain death]]) intended to give him eternal life.<ref>{{cite web|title=Qin Shihuang|publisher=Ministry of Culture, [[People'
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• Morphine
  | elimination_half-life = 2–3 h *[[Death]] or termination of [[life]]
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• Paracetamol
  | elimination_half-life = 1–4 h ...] of paracetamol,<ref>{{cite doi|10.1093/bja/aei109}}</ref> and its [[half life]] is 1–4 hours.
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• Diazepam
  | elimination_half-life = 20–100 hours (36-200 hours for main active metabolite [[desmethyldiazep ..., helping Roche to become a pharmaceutical industry giant. It is two and a half times more potent than its predecessor, which it quickly surpassed in terms
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• Calabar bean
  ...ner than from either alone. Thus atropine will save life after three and a half times the fatal dose of physostigmine has been taken, but will hasten the e ...ong the natives, in which the two opponents divide a bean, each eating one half; that quantity has been known to kill both adversaries. Although thus highl
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• Conium
  ...th green stem, usually spotted or streaked with red or purple on the lower half of the stem. The [[leaf|leaves]] are finely divided and lacy, overall trian ==Life cycle==
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• Temazepam
  |elimination_half-life=8–20 hours ...of the dosage, preferably with a long-acting benzodiazepine with long half life [[active metabolites]] such as [[chlordiazepoxide]] or [[diazepam]] is reco
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• William Robertson Smith
  ==Life== ...ridge|Christ's College]].<ref>John Sutherland Black & George Chrystal, The Life of William Robertson Smith (London: Adam & Charles Black 1912) chs. xi & xi
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• Encyclopædia Britannica
  ...d roughly constant over 70&nbsp;years, with about 40&nbsp;million words on half a million topics.<ref name="index_preface">{{cite book | year = 2007 | titl ...h and 14th editions, devoting roughly three hours per night for four and a half years to read the 11th.<ref>{{cite news | title = Reader | publisher = The
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• Mortimer J. Adler
  ...ad been profoundly influenced by a number of Christian thinkers during his life, ... there were moral—not intellectual—obstacles to his conversion. He ...end because it is never attained at any time in the course of one's whole life. If all ends were terminal ends, there could not be any one of them that is
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• History of the Encyclopædia Britannica
  ...he two men quarreled and they never spoke for the last ten years of Bell's life (1799–1809). ...d the 6th edition, which was completed in May 1823. It was published in 40 half-volume parts, priced 16 shillings in boards. The editor was [[Charles Macla
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• Jewish Encyclopedia
  ...ewish Encyclopedia'', the undertaking seemed then like an effort wasted on half-clad [[Zulus]] in [[South Africa]] and Jewish tailors in New York. Those w
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• A Guide to the Scientific Knowledge of Things Familiar
  | title=The new home; or, Wedded life, its duties, cares and pleasures ...runs were among the highest of any scientific book published in the second half of the 19th century,<ref name="Lightman66" /> and Brewer said the success o
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• The Imperial Gazetteer of India
  ...facturer. The second of his parents' three sons, Hunter began his academic life in 1854 in the Quaker Seminary at Queenswood, Hampshire. After a profitable ..., and he joined it in September 1871. From 1875 to 1881 he spent more than half of every year in England for the purpose of compiling the statistical accou
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• Encyclopedia of the Brethren of Purity
  ...n a ''systematized'', harmonious and co-ordinated view of the universe and life, its origin and destiny, formed out of many discordant, incoherent views; a ...25.</ref> [[Brethren of Purity]] of [[Basra, Iraq]] sometime in the second half of the 10th century [[Common Era|CE]] (or possibly later, in the 11th centu
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• Pathologic nystagmus
  ...[[gabapentin]], an anticonvulsant, was found to cause improvement in about half the patients who received it to relieve symptoms of nystagmus. Other drugs ...ttp://www.theshiftyeyesblog.com The Shifty Eyes Blog] &mdash; a blog about life with nystagmus
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• Procainamide
  | elimination_half-life = ~2.5 to 4.5 hours ...Pharmacol Ther. 1977 Oct;22(4):447-57.</ref>. NAPA has an elimination half-life about twice that of procainamide, and it can reach somewhat higher plasma l
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• Lisinopril
  | elimination_half-life = 12 hours ...om other ACE inhibitors: it is [[Hydrophile|hydrophilic]], has long [[half-life]] and tissue penetration and is not [[metabolism|metabolized]] by the liver
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• Renin inhibitor
  ...bitor of human renin (IC50 in the low nanomolar range), with a plasma half-life of ≈24 hours. [[Aliskiren]] has good water solubility and low lipophilici
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• Conductive polymer
  ...>{{cite journal|doi=10.1196/annals.1292.016|title=An Overview of the First Half-Century of Molecular Electronics|year=2003|last1=Hush|first1=Noel S.|journa ...Wires: Tough, light plastics can carry a current better than many metals" LIFE Dec. 26, 1949.[http://books.google.com/books?id=T0EEAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PP1&pg=PA5
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• Depleted uranium
  ...ars for [[uranium-238]]), but has a considerably shorter [[biological half-life]]. The aerosol produced during impact and combustion of depleted uranium m ...osion and leaks and are repainted and repaired as necessary. The estimated life time of the steel cylinders is measured in decades.<ref>[http://www.ieer.or
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• Ruthenium
  ...s though broken, while the other, cigar-shaped end is relatively smooth.|A half of a pure, [[Electron beam melting|electron-beam remelted]] ruthenium bar]] ...103</sup>Ru with a half-life of 39.26 days and ⁹⁷Ru with a half-life of 2.9 days.<ref name=n1/><ref name=n2/>
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• Sleeping bag
  ...r [[Pryce Pryce-Jones]] in the late 19th century,<ref>[http://a-day-in-the-life.powys.org.uk/eng/home/eo_euklisia.php Euklisia Rug]</ref> is considered by ...n this position. A sleeping bag of this type is packed by being folded in half or thirds, rolled up, and bound with [[strap]]s or cords with [[cord lock]]
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• Building insulation materials
  * Ease of replacement at end of life ...n the northern climates of Europe. The clay coating gives the insulation a half hour fire rating according to DIN (German) standards.
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• Insulated glazing
  </ref>, [[krypton]] (krypton has about half the conductivity of argon) or [[xenon]] to increase the insulating performa The life of an IGU varies depending on the quality of materials used, workmanship an
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• Gunpowder
  Combustion converts less than half the mass of black powder to gas. The rest ends up as a thick layer of [[soo ...edge of gunpowder emerged from the search by alchemists for the secrets of life, to filter through the channels of Middle Eastern culture, and take root in
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• Glossary of textile manufacturing
  ...texture richly figured in the weaving with flowers, fruit, forms of animal life, and other types of ornament. ...are the [[square knot]] and forms of hitching ([[full hitch]] and double [[half hitch]]es).
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• Textile preservation
  ...hs of display, then the rest of the year in dark storage, to prolong their life. ...archival-quality boxes or under cover. Fans and parasols may be stored in half-open positions, which provide the least amount of stress on the fabrics <re
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• Baldachin
  (New Haven & London, 1981).</ref> evolved during the second half of the seventeenth century, developing the medieval tradition of receiving ...lking on each side. An Egyptian Pharaoh, for example, was escorted both in life and in death by such a canopy of estate.
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• Bamboo textiles
  ...particular design of bamboo hats was stereotypically connected with rural life, being worn almost universally by farmers and fishermen in order to protect Deltamethrin, a nerve agent, is applied in over half of the cotton producing countries. Medical analysis in a community in a Sou
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• History of clothing and textiles
  ...Pupa#Cocoon|cocoon]] of [[bombyx mori]], the domesticated silkworm, cut in half by a sharp knife is dated to between 5000 and 3000 BC. Fragments of primiti ...n and Capitalism, 15th–18th Centuries, Vol 1: The Structures of Everyday Life," p 312-3 and 323</ref>
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• Textiles of Mexico
  ...ere high. Large cotton weaving workshops were not founded until the second half of the 17th century. Eventually, the production of this fabric as well as w ...hing he has done every year since. Recognition has come late in Borboa’s life winning awards from FONART and state agencies starting in the 1990s.<ref na
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• Māori traditional textiles
  ...the down threads would be enclosed between two or four cross-threads every half inch or so.<ref>For examples, see [http://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/search ...arly/tei-BesMaor-c6-6.html ''The Maori as He Was: A brief account of Maori life as it was in Pre-European Days'' by Elsdon Best, New Zealand Texts Collecti
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• Automatic lubrication system
  # Less [[wear]] on the components means extended component life, fewer [[breakdown (vehicle)|breakdowns]], reduced [[downtime]], reduced [[ ...predetermined amount of lubricant is dispensed by the metering devices to half of the lubrication points via feed lines.
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• List of National Treasures of Japan (crafts: swords)
  ...lade to the [[Shirayamahime Shrine]] praying for her happiness in the next life; width: {{convert|2.2|cm|abbr=on}} | <span style="display:none">1200</span>[[Kamakura period]], first half of 13th century
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• Bottle wall
  ...ottles thick. Most intriguing though, is the wall made from bottles cut in half, matched, and joined to another bottle of the same size and color. Primitiv ...erworld of shrines, wishing wells, walkways, random constructions, plus 15 life size structures all made from found objects placed in mortar. The name "Bot
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• Metal roof
  ...d to last upwards of 100 years with little or no maintenance. The average life-span of [[asphalt shingle]]s today (since 2001) is 6–9 years [citation ne ...maintenance until the paint fails. These products have been used for over half a century now in the U.S. and few installations have failed. So these roofi
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• Deconstruction (building)
  ...le. Deconstruction focuses on giving the materials within a building a new life once the building as a whole can no longer continue. When buildings reach the end of their useful life, they are typically demolished and hauled to [[landfill]]s. [[Building impl
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• Stainless steel
  ...rwater/preserves/HM_Prop3.pdf |title=A Proposal to Establish the Shipwreck Half Moon as a State Underwater Archaeological Preserve |month=May|year=2000 |pu ...ut 60% recycled material of which approximately 40% originates from end-of-life products and about 60% comes from manufacturing processes.<ref>{{cite web
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• Thuja plicata
  ...6">Stewart (1984), p. 26</ref> There it prospers and accounted for nearly half the vegetation in the area 500 years ago.<ref name="stewart 26"/> Currentl ...ally, native Americans of the West coast also address the species as "long life maker".<ref name="stewart 22"/>
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• Hemp
  ...mino acid]]s and essential fatty acids necessary to maintain healthy human life.<ref>http://www.ratical.org/renewables/hempseed1.html</ref> The seeds can b Uruguay has also approved a project of hemp production as of the second half of 2010.
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