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ἴρις (genitive: ἴριδος) (iris) Greek via Latin "of rainbows" descriptive (colour) Named after the Latin noun iris, which means "rainbow, iris plant, iris of the eye", because many of its salts are strongly coloured; Iris was originally the name of the goddess of rainbows and a messenger in Greek mythology. [3] Platinum (Pt) 78
A chemical element is a chemical substance whose atoms all have the same number of protons.The number of protons is called the atomic number of that element. For example, oxygen has an atomic number of 8, meaning each oxygen atom has 8 protons in its nucleus.
A repeated measurement design was employed in the study of acute symptoms of eye and respiratory tract irritation resulting from occupational exposure to sodium borate dusts. [94] The symptom assessment of the 79 exposed and 27 unexposed subjects comprised interviews before the shift began and then at regular hourly intervals for the next six ...
83959 269356 Ensembl ENSG00000088836 ENSMUSG00000074796 UniProt Q8NBS3 A2AJN7 RefSeq (mRNA) NM_001174089 NM_001174090 NM_032034 NM_001363745 NM_001400277 NM_001400278 NM_001400279 NM_001400280 NM_001081162 RefSeq (protein) NP_001167560 NP_001167561 NP_114423 NP_001350674 NP_001074631 Location (UCSC) Chr 20: 3.23 – 3.24 Mb Chr 2: 130.53 – 130.54 Mb PubMed search Wikidata View/Edit Human ...
A degree of uncertainty surrounds the origin of the English word "saffron". It might stem from the 12th-century Old French term safran, which comes from the Latin word safranum, from the Persian (زعفران, za'farān), [10] from the Persian word zarparān (زرپران) meaning "gold strung" (implying either the golden stamens of the flower or the golden colour it creates when used as flavour).
Vesta is the only other asteroid that can regularly reach a similarly bright magnitude, while Pallas and 7 Iris do so only when both in opposition and near perihelion. [138] When in conjunction , Ceres has a magnitude of around +9.3, which corresponds to the faintest objects visible with 10×50 binoculars; thus, it can be seen with such ...
Barley (Hordeum vulgare), a member of the grass family, is a major cereal grain grown in temperate climates globally. It was one of the first cultivated grains; it was domesticated in the Fertile Crescent around 9000 BC, giving it nonshattering spikelets and making it much easier to harvest.