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  2. List of poisonous plants - Wikipedia

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    The plant is poisonous, containing cardiostimulant compounds such as adonidin and aconitic acid. [42] Aesculus hippocastanum: horse-chestnut, buckeye, conker tree Sapindaceae: All parts of the raw plant are poisonous due to saponins and glycosides such as aesculin, causing nausea, muscle twitches, and sometimes paralysis. [43] Agave spp.

  3. Khargone Super Thermal Power Station - Wikipedia

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    It is the country's first super critical thermal power plant. The Khargone plant operates at an efficiency of 41.5 per cent, which is 3.3 per cent higher than the conventional super-critical ones, with steam parameters of 600 degree Celsius temperatures and 270 kg per centimeter square pressure.

  4. List of poisonous animals - Wikipedia

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    The hooded pitohui.The neurotoxin homobatrachotoxin on the birds' skin and feathers causes numbness and tingling on contact.. The following is a list of poisonous animals, which are animals that passively deliver toxins (called poison) to their victims upon contact such as through inhalation, absorption through the skin, or after being ingested.

  5. Echium plantagineum - Wikipedia

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    Echium plantagineum, commonly known as purple viper's-bugloss, [1] Paterson's curse or Salvation Jane, is a species of the genus Echium native to western and southern Europe (from southern England south to Iberia and east to the Crimea), northern Africa, and southwestern Asia (east to Georgia).

  6. Phytotoxin - Wikipedia

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    The term is also used to describe toxic chemicals produced by plants themselves, which function as defensive agents against their predators. Most examples pertaining to this definition of phytotoxin are members of various classes of specialised or secondary metabolites , including alkaloids , terpenes , and especially phenolics , though not all ...

  7. List of psychoactive plants, fungi, and animals - Wikipedia

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    Psychoactive plants include, but are not limited to, the following examples: Cannabis: cannabinoids; Tobacco: nicotine, anabasine, and other Nicotinic agonists, as well as beta-carboline alkaloids

  8. List of venomous animals - Wikipedia

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    [1] [2] They are often distinguished from poisonous animals, which instead passively deliver their toxins (called poison) to their victims upon contact such as through inhalation, absorption through the skin, or after being ingested. [1] [2] [3] The only difference between venomous animals and poisonous animals is how they deliver the toxins. [3]

  9. Khargone district - Wikipedia

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    The red chilli pepper is exported abroad. A famous mandi [clarification needed] of chilli at Bedia is located about 50 km from Khargone city. Khargone Super Thermal Power Station is a coal-based thermal power project, located at village Selda and Dalchi in Khargone district. It is the country's first ultra-super critical thermal power plant.