A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z 0-9 drupe ... Dual Alliance drupe fruit in which the outer layer of the ovary wall is a thin skin, the ... [3 Related Articles] druplet (from the article "angiosperm") ...there is usually only one seed per carpel or locule. Drupes are fleshy fruits and ... Drury Lane Theatre oldest London theatre still in use. It stands in the eastern part of the City ... [13 Related Articles] Drury, Allen Stuart American journalist and writer whose first and most famous novel, Advise and Consent (1959), won ... Drury, Sir Robert (from the article "Donne, John") ...take holy orders in the Church of England, but he felt unworthy and continued to ... druse (from the article "igneous rock") ...coarser-grained, subhedral to euhedral, and otherwise pegmatitic in texture. Many of these small interior bodies, ... Drusus Germanicus, Nero Claudius younger brother of Tiberius (who later became emperor) and commander of the Roman forces that ... 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(The term beriberi ... dry blending (from the article "plastic") Mixing liquids with other ingredients may be done in conventional stirred tanks, but certain operations ... dry cell (from the article "Leclanche, Georges") French engineer who in about 1866 invented the battery that bears his name. In slightly ... dry cleaning (from the article "chemical industry") ...usually also organic, and the process is used in coatings, adhesives, textiles, pharmaceuticals, inks, photographic ... dry conversion (from the article "papermaking") ...to as wet converting, in which paper in roll form is coated, impregnated, and laminated ... dry curing (from the article "ham") Basic methods of curing are dry curing, in which the cure is rubbed into the ... dry damping (from the article "damping") There are many types of mechanical damping. Friction, also called in this context dry, or ... dry dock type of dock (q.v.) consisting of a rectangular basin dug into the shore of a ... [4 Related Articles] Dry Falls (from the article "river") Ice dams can produce similar effects. One of the most interesting examples is Dry Falls, ... dry fan (from the article "river") ...and depositional processes, may be significantly different, however. The widespread distribution of fans has led ... dry farming the cultivation of crops without irrigation in regions of limited moisture, typically less than 20 ... [2 Related Articles] dry fly (from the article "fly-tying") Most fly-tying is designed for trout and salmon fishing. There are three stages of insect ... dry fruit (from the article "Classification of fruits") The rose family shows a wide diversity of fruit types. Many have dry fruits (follicles) ... dry gangrene (from the article "gangrene") Gangrene is differentiated as being either dry or moist. Dry gangrene results from a gradual ... dry gas natural gas that is always in the gaseous state in the reservoir and produces little ... dry gin (from the article "gin") Dutch gins, too distinctive in taste to combine well with other beverages, are usually served ... Dry Ice trademark for carbon dioxide (q.v.) in its solid form, a dense, snowlike substance that sublimes ... [4 Related Articles] dry milling (from the article "cereal processing") Dry milling of cassava is rarely practiced because it yields a product inferior to wet-processed ... dry objective (from the article "microscope") ...larger or the R.I. increases. Typical values for microscope objective N.A.'s range from 0.1 for ... dry offset offset printing process combining the characteristics of letterpress and offset. A special plate prints directly ... [2 Related Articles] dry permafrost (from the article "permafrost") Permafrost with no water, and thus no ice, is termed dry permafrost. The upper surface ... dry plate in photography, glass plate coated with a gelatin emulsion of silver bromide. It can be ... [3 Related Articles] dry process (from the article "cement") ...the burned product, known as "clinker," together with some 5 percent of gypsum (to control ... dry processing (from the article "photography, technology of") Processing baths can be completely eliminated by incorporating in the emulsion of the paper development ... dry quenching (from the article "coal utilization") ...coke to a quenching station, where it is cooled with water. In some plants the ... dry rot (from the article "dry rot") symptom of fungal disease in plants, characterized by firm spongy to leathery or hard decay ... dry salting (from the article "fish processing") Curing reduces water activity through the addition of chemicals, such as salt, sugars, or acids. ... dry savanna (from the article "savanna") ...dry season is typically longer than the wet season, but it varies considerably, from two ... dry season (from the article "drought") 2. Seasonal drought occurs in climates that have well-defined annual rainy and dry seasons; for ... dry sleep (from the article "lungfish") African lungfishes bore into the bottom of a riverbed or lake bed for their "dry ... dry spinning (from the article "fibre, man-made") One of the oldest methods for the preparation of man-made fibres is solution spinning, which ... Dry Tortugas the last seven in a long string of coral islands (keys) and sandbars that extend ... Dry Tortugas National Park (from the article "Everglades") ...subtropical wilderness left in the United States. The park was authorized in 1934, but, because ... dry valley (from the article "Antarctica") ...levels. General lowering of levels caused some former glaciers flowing from the polar region through ... Dry West (from the article "United States") In the United States, to speak of dry areas is to speak of the West. ... dry yeast (from the article "baking") ...addition level might be 2 percent of the dough weight. Bakeries receive yeast in the ... dry zone (from the article "Irrawaddy River") ...south, except near Kabwet, where a sheet of lava has caused the river to bend ... Dry Zone (from the article "Sri Lanka") ...east of the highlands and then flows toward the northeast coast. Because a part of ... dry-bulb thermometer (from the article "hygrometer") The psychrometer (q.v.) is a hygrometer that utilizes two thermometers-one wet-bulb and one dry-bulb-to determine ... dry-bulk ship (from the article "ship") Designed for the carriage of ore, coal, grain, and the like, dry-bulk ships bear a ... dry-hulling process (from the article "coffee") In this process, the fruits are immediately placed to dry either in sunlight or in ... dry-kiln seasoning (from the article "seasoning") ...seasoning, the boards are stacked and divided by narrow pieces of wood called stickers so ... dry-press process (from the article "brick and tile") ...excess clay is struck from the top of the mold. It is from this process ... dry-snow zone (from the article "glacier") Another classification distinguishes the surface zones, or facies, on parts of a glacier. In the ... dry-well installation (from the article "environmental works") ...chamber or tank to receive and hold the sewage until it is pumped out. Specially ... dry-wood termite (from the article "termite") Dry-wood termites nest in the wood on which they feed and do not invade a ... Dryad (from the article "nymph") ..."mountain") were nymphs of mountains and grottoes; the Napaeae (nape, "dell") and the Alseids (alsos, ... dryad's saddle (from the article "basidiocarp") ...fungi. The largest basidiocarps include giant puffballs (Calvatia gigantea), which can be 1.6 m (5.25 ... Dryburgh Abbey (from the article "Newtown Saint Boswells") ...consisted mainly of railway employees. Since then its main function has changed to local governmental ... Dryden, Hugh L U.S. physicist and deputy administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for seven ... Dryden, John English poet, dramatist, and literary critic who so dominated the literary scene of his day ... 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[2 Related Articles] drying process (from the article "food preservation") ...and eaten. Control of bacterial contaminants in dried foods requires high-quality raw materials having low ... drying process (from the article "brick and tile") After the bricks are formed, they must be dried to remove as much free water ... Dryopithecus genus of extinct ape that is representative of early members of the lineage that includes ... [4 Related Articles] Dryopteridaceae the shield fern family, containing 40-50 genera and about 1,700 species, in the division Pteridophyta ... drypoint an engraving method in which the design to be printed is scratched directly into a ... [2 Related Articles] Drysdale, Donald Scott ("BIG D"), U.S. baseball player and broadcaster (b. July 23, 1936, Van Nuys, Calif.--d. July ... [1 Related Articles] drywall construction a type of construction in which the interior wall is applied in a dry condition ... Drzic, Marin (from the article "Croatian literature") ...a plea for the national struggle against the Ottoman Empire; Hanibal Lucic, author of DS4 (from the article "applied logic") 2.DS4 (the deontic analogue of Lewis' system S4). To M one adds the axiom: DS5 (from the article "applied logic") 3.DS5 (the deontic analogue of Lewis' system S5). To M one adds the axiom: Dschang town, northwestern Cameroon, west central Africa, on a forested plateau northwest of Yaounde. Its high ... DShK-38 (from the article "small arm") ...rifle-power ammunition. The weapon was recoil-operated and air-cooled, and it fired at about 450 rounds ... DSL (from the article "Computers and Information Systems") ...Commission (FCC) ruled that they no longer had to provide competing ISPs with access to ... DSM (Dutch: DSM Limited Company), state-owned Dutch chemical company. Until 1975 the company was known as ... DST (from the article "airplane") ...Company had been able to substitute an improved and more economical engine by the time ... DST (from the article "intelligence") ...Charged with gathering foreign military intelligence for the French general staff, it is no doubt ... DT (from the article "infectious disease") ...in both fluid and adsorbed forms, the latter being recommended. Diphtheria toxoid is also available ... DTD (from the article "computer programming language") SGML is used to specify DTDs (document type definitions). A DTD defines a kind of ... du Bellay, Joachim French poet, leader with Pierre de Ronsard of the literary group known as La Pleiade. ... [3 Related Articles] Du Bois, W.E.B. American sociologist, the most important black protest leader in the United States during the first ... [11 Related Articles] du Bois, William Pene American author and illustrator of children's books noted for his comic coterie of peculiar characters. ... 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[2 Related Articles] Du Pont Highway (from the article "Delaware") The construction of the Du Pont Highway (the first north-south highway to extend through the ... du Pont, Eleuthere Irenee (from the article "Delaware") ...the earliest parts of the new United States to adopt water-powered industry. Brandywine superfine flour, ... du Pont, Henry (from the article "du Pont Family") ...mill and pursued farming as an avocation. His immediate successors were two sons, Alfred Victor ... du Pont, Henry Algernon (from the article "du Pont Family") ...powder works as far away as California and gained control of various associated enterprises. In ... du Pont, Lammot (from the article "explosive") Chilean nitrate was not at first considered satisfactory for the manufacture of black powder because ... du Pont, Pierre Samuel manufacturer and the largest American munitions producer during World War I. 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