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Nichols, Mary Gove: U.S. writer and advocate of women's rights and health reform.
Nichols, Mike: American motion-picture and stage director whose productions focus on the absurdities and horrors of modern life as revealed in personal relationships. [1 Related Articles]
Nichols, Terry: (from the article "Oklahoma City bombing") ...wrongly focused on Middle Eastern terrorist groups, attention quickly centred on Timothy McVeigh-who had been arrested shortly after the explosion for a traffic violation-and his friend Terry Nichols. Both were ...
Nichols-Herreshoff multiple-hearth furnace: (from the article "molybdenum processing") ...must be converted into technical molybdic oxide (85-90 percent MoO₃) in order to reach its commercial destination. Such conversion is almost universally carried out in Nichols-Herreshoff-type multiple-hearth furnaces, into which ...
Nicholson, Ben: English artist whose austere geometric paintings and reliefs were among the most influential abstract works in British art. [4 Related Articles]
Nicholson, David: British steeplechase jockey and trainer (b. March 19, 1939, Epsom, Surrey, Eng.-d. Aug. 27, 2006), as one of England's finest jump trainers (1968-99), saddled 1,499 winning horses, notably Charter Party ...
Nicholson, Eliza Jane Poitevent Holbrook: American poet and journalist, the first woman publisher of a daily newspaper in the Deep South.
Nicholson, Jack: one of the most prominent American motion-picture actors of his generation, especially noted for his versatile portrayals of unconventional, alienated outsiders. [3 Related Articles]
Nicholson, John: British soldier and administrator who brought relief to Delhi during the Indian Mutiny of 1857.
Nicholson, Max: British ornithologist, environmentalist, and civil servant (b. July 12, 1904, Kilternan, County Dublin, Ire.-d. April 26, 2003, London, Eng.), cofounded (1961), with Julian Huxley, Peter Scott, and Guy Mountfort (q.v.), ... [1 Related Articles]
Nicholson, Reynold Alleyne: English orientalist who exercised a lasting influence on Islamic studies.
Nicholson, Seth Barnes: American astronomer best known for discovering four satellites of Jupiter: the 9th in 1914 (at Lick Observatory, Mount Hamilton, California), the 10th and 11th in 1938, and the 12th in ... [2 Related Articles]
Nicholson, William: English chemist, discoverer of the electrolysis of water, which has become a basic process in both chemical research and industry. [2 Related Articles]
Nicholson, William R.: (from the article "fundamentalism, Christian") ...millennial leaders included George C. Needham (1840-1902), a Baptist evangelist; William J. Erdman (1834-1923), a Presbyterian minister noted for his skill as a biblical exegete; and William R. Nicholson (1822-1901), ...
nichrome: (from the article "diesel engine") ...megapascals (203 pounds per square inch) did not provide a high enough temperature to ignite the fuel charge when starting. Ignition was accomplished by a fine wire coil in the ...
Nicias: Athenian painter who was noted for his skill in chiaroscuro (the depiction of form by means of light and shadow).
Nicias: Athenian politician and general during the Peloponnesian War (431-404 BC) between Sparta and Athens. He was in charge of the Athenian forces engaged in the siege of Syracuse, Sicily, and ... [6 Related Articles]
Nicias, Peace of: (from the article "Athens") ...War in 432 BC, but, as things began to go well for Athens, the little temple of Athena Nike was erected on the bastion in front of the Propylaea, perhaps ...
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds: (from the article "Cave, Nick") Following the Birthday Party's break-up in 1983, Cave and Harvey went on to form Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds in Berlin with the former Magazine bassist Barry Adamson and ...
nickel: chemical element, ferromagnetic metal of Group VIIIb of the periodic table, markedly resistant to oxidation and corrosion. [19 Related Articles]
nickel arsenide: (from the article "chemical bonding") ...to their neighbours, it is a sign that covalent bonding is beginning to influence the structure of the solid and that the bonding is not purely ionic. This is the ...
nickel carbonyl: (from the article "nickel") Among other important commercial compounds are nickel carbonyl, or tetracarbonylnickel, Ni(CO)₄. This compound, in which nickel exhibits a zero oxidation state, is used primarily as a carrier of carbon monoxide ...
nickel chloride hexahydrate: (from the article "nickel processing") The compound nickel sulfate hexahydrate, NiSO₄· 6H₂O, is employed in the electrolytic refining of nickel as well as in most nickel electroplating baths. Nickel chloride hexahydrate, NiCl₂· 6H₂O, ...
nickel dimethylglyoxime: (from the article "nickel processing") Nickel dimethylglyoxime is an insoluble salt useful in analytical chemistry in precipitating nickel. Nickel carbonyl, Ni(CO)₄, a liquid at room temperature, is employed in the carbonyl nickel-refining process. Like all ...
nickel fluoborate: (from the article "nickel processing") _...· 6H₂O, is often used in conjunction with the sulfate in plating baths; while the nickel sulfamate, Ni(SO₃NH₂) · 4H₂O, and the nickel fluoborate, Ni(BF₄)₂, are employed in some of ...
nickel fluoride: (from the article "Neel temperature of antiferromagnetic substances") ...nonmetallic elements. Yet there is no great difference between these compounds and, say, uranium hexafluoride. Furthermore, such simple ionic salts as sodium chloride (NaCl) or nickel(+2) fluoride (nickel difluoride; NiF₂) ...
nickel gallium sulfide: (from the article "Physical Sciences") ...produces magnetism. Liquid magnetic states might be related to the way that electrons flow in superconducting materials. Satoru Nakatsuji and co-workers at Kyoto University synthesized a material, nickel gallium sulfide ...
nickel oxide: (from the article "nickel processing") ...in the carbonyl nickel-refining process. Like all other carbonyls, it is poisonous. Nickel subsulfide, Ni₃S₂, is the nickel component of matte involved in pyrometallurgy. Nickel oxide, NiO, is involved in ...
nickel processing: preparation of the metal for use in various products. [9 Related Articles]
nickel subsulfide: (from the article "nickel processing") ...chemistry in precipitating nickel. Nickel carbonyl, Ni(CO)₄, a liquid at room temperature, is employed in the carbonyl nickel-refining process. Like all other carbonyls, it is poisonous. Nickel subsulfide, Ni₃S₂, is ...
nickel sulfamate: (from the article "nickel processing") ...as well as in most nickel electroplating baths. Nickel chloride hexahydrate, NiCl₂· 6H₂O, is often used in conjunction with the sulfate in plating baths; while the nickel sulfamate, Ni(SO₃NH₂) ...
nickel sulfate hexahydrate: (from the article "nickel processing") The compound nickel sulfate hexahydrate, NiSO₄· 6H₂O, is employed in the electrolytic refining of nickel as well as in most nickel electroplating baths. Nickel chloride hexahydrate, NiCl₂· 6H₂O, ...
nickel-based alloy: (from the article "materials science") ...often complex alloys that are resistant to high temperatures and severe mechanical stress and that exhibit high surface stability. They are commonly classified into three major categories: nickel-based, cobalt-based, and ...
nickel-cadmium cell: (from the article "Common household batteries") Nickel (hydroxide)-cadmium systems are the most common small rechargeable battery type for portable appliances. The sealed cells are equipped with "jelly roll" electrodes, which allow high current to be delivered ...
nickel-iron battery: (from the article "battery") Nickel (hydroxide)-iron batteries can provide thousands of cycles but do not recharge with high efficiency, generating heat and consuming more electricity than is generally desirable. They have been used extensively ...
nickel-silver: (from the article "nickel processing") ...copper). It was from this ore, studied by Axel Fredrik Cronstedt, that nickel was isolated and recognized as a new element in 1751. In 1776 it was established that pai-t'ung, ...
Nickelodeon: (from the article "Confronting Childhood Obesity") ...was the aim of the Alliance for a Healthier Generation, a partnership formed in 2005 by the American Heart Association, former U.S. president Bill Clinton, and the children's television network ...
nickelodeon: (from the article "motion picture, history of the") The most immediate effect of the rapid rise of the distribution sector was the nickelodeon boom, the exponential growth of permanent film theatres in the United States from a mere ...
nicking: (from the article "keyboard instrument") ...of each pipe by manipulating the foot hole, flue, and upper and lower lips. The attack of the note may also be greatly influenced by cutting a series of small ...
Nicklaus, Jack: American professional golfer, a dominating figure in world golf from the 1960s to the '80s. [4 Related Articles]
Nicks, Stevie: (from the article "Fleetwood Mac") ...Bob Welch (b. July 31, 1946Los Angeles, California, U.S.), Stevie Nicks (b. May 26, 1948Phoenix, Arizonia, U.S.), and Lindsey...
Niclaes, Hendrik: (from the article "Familist") religious sect of Dutch origin, followers of Hendrik Niclaes, a 16th-century Dutch merchant. Niclaes' main activity was in Emden, East Friesland (1540-60). In his Evangelium regni, issued in England as ...
Nico: (from the article "Velvet Underground, the") ...Maureen ("Moe") Tucker (b. Aug. 26, 1944Levittown, Long Island, N.Y.), Nico (original name Christa Paffgen; b. Oct. 16, 1938 Cologne, Germany-d. July 18,...
Nicobar Islands: island group, Andaman and Nicobar Islands union territory, India, lying about 800 miles (1,300 km) east of Sri Lanka. The islands, along with the Andaman Islands to the north, constitute ... [1 Related Articles]
Nicobarese: (from the article "Andaman and Nicobar Islands") The indigenous inhabitants of the Nicobar Islands, the Nicobarese (including the related Shompen), continued to constitute the majority of the population of the Nicobars in the early 21st century. They ...
Nicobarese languages: Austroasiatic languages spoken on the Nicobar Islands and once considered to form a distinct family within the Austroasiatic stock. More recent data on these hitherto poorly known languages suggest that ... [1 Related Articles]
Nicocles: (from the article "Isocrates") Of his hundred pupils the most notable were Timotheus, the Athenian general, prominent in Athens' history between 378 and 355; Nicocles, the ruler of Salamis in Cyprus; and the two ...
Nicocreon: (from the article "Cyprus") ...fought for control of Cyprus. The eventual victor was Ptolemy I of Egypt, who suppressed the kingdoms and made the island a province of his Egyptian kingdom. He forced the ...
Nicodemus The Hagiorite, Saint: Greek Orthodox monk and author of ascetic prayer literature. He was influential in reviving the practice of Hesychasm, a Byzantine method of contemplative prayer. [1 Related Articles]
Nicol prism: (from the article "prism") ...Porro prism, for example, consists of two prisms arranged both to invert and to reverse an image and are used in many optical viewing instruments, such as periscopes, binoculars, and ...
Nicol, Davidson: Sierra Leonean diplomat, physician, medical researcher, and writer whose short stories and poems are among the best to have come out of West Africa. [1 Related Articles]
Nicol, Joseph Arthur Colin: (from the article "feeding behaviour") Even with these restrictions, the diversity of feeding patterns is bewildering. A useful classification has been put forward by British zoologists Sir Maurice Yonge and J.A.C. Nicol, based on the ...
Nicol, Peter: (from the article "Squash") ...2006. Flamboyant Canadian Jonathon Power retired in March just two days after regaining the world number one ranking and shortly before the Commonwealth Games began in Melbourne. Power's great rival ...
Nicol, William: (from the article "Earth sciences") The development of the polarizing microscope and the technique for grinding sections of rocks so thin as to be virtually transparent came in 1827 from studies of fossilized wood by ...
Nicolai, Friedrich: writer and bookseller who, with Gotthold Ephraim Lessing and Moses Mendelssohn, was a leader of the German Enlightenment (Aufklarung) and who, as editor of the reformist journal Allgemeine deutsche Bibliothek ... [2 Related Articles]
Nicolai, Otto: German composer known for his comic opera Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor (The Merry Wives of Windsor), based on William Shakespeare's comedy.
Nicolaides, Kimon: (from the article "contour drawing") ...volume than in an outline drawing, and indeed in such works the tactile values are given as much importance as the purely visual ones. As a method of teaching art, ...
nicolaitism: (from the article "Europe, history of") ...loosely used until the 11th century, slowly became better defined and was initially applied to clerical misconduct such as simony (the acceptance of ecclesiastical office from laymen) and nicolaitism (clerical ...
Nicolaus Copernicus University: (from the article "Kujawsko-Pomorskie") ...of historic Torun include the ruins of a Teutonic castle, the Gothic Church of St. Mary, and the 13th-century Church of SS. John the Baptist and John the Evangelist. Also ...
Nicolay, John G.: (from the article "biography") ...Narrated in Connection with the Political, Ecclesiastical, and Literary History of his Time (7 vol., 1859-94), by David Masson, and Abraham Lincoln: A History (10 vol., 1890), by John G. ...
Nicole, Pierre: French theologian, author, moralist, and controversialist whose writings, chiefly polemical, supported the Roman Catholic reform movement known as Jansenism. [2 Related Articles]
Nicolet, Jean: French North American explorer who was the first known European to discover Lake Michigan and what is now the state of Wisconsin. [4 Related Articles]
Nicolino: (from the article "Gabrielino") ...or San Fernandinos), named after the mission San Fernando Rey de Espana, occupied areas in and around the San Fernando Valley and seacoast. A third, apparently related, group was the ...
Nicolle, Charles-Jules-Henri: French bacteriologist who received the 1928 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his discovery (1909) that typhus is transmitted by the body louse. [1 Related Articles]
Nicollet, Joseph Nicolas: mathematician and explorer. [1 Related Articles]
Nicolls, Richard: the first English governor of the province of New York in the American colonies. [1 Related Articles]
Nicolo III: (from the article "Este, House of") The reign of Nicolo III (1393-1441), son of Alberto, marked the strengthening of Estensi domination in Ferrara and the introduction of Estensi influence generally in Italian politics. After having defeated ...
Nicolosi: (from the article "Etna, Mount") ...eruption was in 1669 (March 11-July 15), when about 990,000,000 cu yd (830,000,000 cu m) of lava were thrown out. The eruption took place along a fissure that opened above ...
Nicolson, Nigel: British biographer, publisher, and politician (b. Jan. 19, 1917, London, Eng.-d. Sept. 23, 2004, Sissinghurst, Kent, Eng.), created a furor in 1973 with Portrait of a Marriage, a frank and-to ...
Nicolson, Sir Harold: British diplomat and author of more than 125 books, including political essays, travel accounts, and mystery novels. His three-volume Diaries and Letters (1966-68) is a valuable document of British social ... [1 Related Articles]
Nicomachus: (from the article "Aristotle") Aristotle was born on the Chalcidic peninsula of Macedonia, in northern Greece. His father, Nicomachus, was the physician of Amyntas III (reigned c. 393-c. 370 BC), king of Macedonia and ...
Nicomachus of Gerasa: Neo-Pythagorean philosopher and mathematician who wrote Arithmetike eisagoge (Introduction to Arithmetic), an influential treatise on number theory. Considered a standard authority for 1,000 years, the book sets out the elementary ... [3 Related Articles]
Nicomachus of Thebes: Greek painter known, according to Plutarch, for his facility, which Plutarch compared to that of Homer when composing verses.
Nicomedes: (from the article "mathematics") ...ruler (see figure). Because the same construction can be effected by means of a hyperbola (see figure), however, the problem is not linear but solid. Such uses of the conchoids ...
Nicomedes III: (from the article "Mithradates VI Eupator") ...Paphlagonia had freed itself, and Phrygia (c. 116 BC) had been linked to the Roman province of Asia. Mithradates' first move there was to partition Paphlagonia and Galatia between himself ...
Nicomedes IV: (from the article "Mithradates VI Eupator") ...successful at first but then deprived of his advantage by Roman intervention (c. 95 and 92). While appearing to acquiesce, he resolved to expel the Romans from Asia. A first ...
Nicopolis Actia: city about 4 miles (6 km) north of Preveza, northwestern Greece, opposite Actium (now Aktion) at the mouth of the Ambracian Gulf (now Amvrakikos Gulf). It was founded in 31 ... [1 Related Articles]
Nicopolis, Battle of: (Sept. 25, 1396), military engagement that resulted in a Turkish victory over an army of European crusaders. It brought an end to massive international efforts to halt Turkish expansion into ... [5 Related Articles]
Nicopolis, Crusade of: (from the article "Crusades") One of the greatest efforts to repulse the Turkish advance was the Crusade of Nicopolis. Prompted by a plea from King Sigismund of Hungary in 1395, the Crusade was joined ...
Nicosia: city and capital of the Republic of Cyprus. It lies along the Pedieos River, in the centre of the Mesaoria Plain between the Kyrenia Mountains (north) and the Troodos range ... [6 Related Articles]
Nicot, Jean: (from the article "smoking") ...into Old World culture was assisted by the patronage it received from various aristocrats and rulers. For example, tobacco was introduced into the court of Catherine de Medicis in 1560 ...
nicotinamide: (from the article "heterocyclic compound") ...oil. Pyridine derivatives are also of great biological importance. For example, nicotinic acid is more commonly known as the B-complex vitamin niacin; a nutritionally equivalent form of niacin is nicotinamide, ...
nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide: (from the article "cell") ...the tricarboxylic acid cycle. At the end of this cycle the carbon atoms yield carbon dioxide and the hydrogen atoms are transferred to the cell's most important hydrogen acceptors, the ...
nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate: (from the article "genetic disease, human") ...H₂O₂, hypochlorite (HOCl), and other agents that kill the microbe. The reduction of O₂ to O₂⁻ is caused by a multicomponent enzyme called nicotine adenine dinucleotide phosphate (NADPH) oxidase. A ...
nicotine: an organic compound that is the principal alkaloid of tobacco. (An alkaloid is one of a group of nitrogenous organic compounds that have marked physiological effects on humans.) Nicotine occurs ... [8 Related Articles]
nicotine gum: (from the article "smoking") Nicotine gum, usually available in 2- and 4-mg formulations, is available in many countries without a physician's prescription. The gum is chewed a few times and then placed between the ...
nicotine inhaler: (from the article "smoking") The nicotine inhaler, which consists of a nicotine-filled cartridge and a mouthpiece, was developed in order to imitate the behavioral and sensory characteristics of smoking without mimicking the actual delivery ...
nicotine lozenge: (from the article "smoking") ...every one to two hours over a period of one to three months. Additional pieces may be used in the event of a strong craving. Possible side effects include mouth ...
nicotine nasal spray: (from the article "smoking") Nicotine nasal spray was designed to deliver nicotine more rapidly than is possible with a patch or gum. It is available by prescription only because it appears to carry a ...
nicotine patch: (from the article "smoking") Nicotine patches are available without a prescription in many countries. A new patch is applied to the skin every day and is left in place for a recommended amount of ...
nicotine replacement therapy: (from the article "smoking") Nicotine replacement therapy delivers nicotine to the body in controlled, relatively small doses, typically by means of a transdermal patch, chewing gum, a nasal spray, an inhaler, or tablets. These ...
nicotinic receptor: (from the article "nervous system") There are two main categories of cholinergic receptor, nicotinic and muscarinic. The nicotinic receptor is a channel protein that, upon binding by acetylcholine, opens to allow diffusion of cations. The ...
Nicoya Peninsula: peninsula in western Costa Rica that is bounded on the west and south by the Pacific Ocean, on the northeast by the Cordillera de Guanacaste, and on the southeast by ...
Nicoya, Gulf of: inlet that indents the west-central part of the Pacific coast of Costa Rica. The inlet extends northward and northwestward from Cape Blanco (Cabo Blanco) for about 50 miles (80 km). ...
Nida River: (from the article "Poland") ...rocks of the Swietokrzyskie ("Holy Cross") Mountains, which reach a maximum elevation of 2,008 feet (612 metres), form a second upthrust. Between these two regions lies the Nida River basin, ...
nidana: (from the article "anga") Nidana ("cause"), a classification for introductory material and historical narratives.
Nidaros Cathedral: (from the article "Trondheim") ...had been buried there after his death in battle at nearby Stiklestad (1030). The first church was built on the site of Olaf1PT's grave in 1075; the ...
Niderviller ware: French faience (tin-glazed earthenware) and porcelain produced in the 18th and 19th centuries by a factory at Niderviller, in Lorraine. Production of the faience falls into three periods. In 1755-70, ... [1 Related Articles]
Nidhogg: (from the article "Hel") ...the shore of corpses. There stood a castle facing north; it was filled with the venom of serpents, in which murderers, adulterers, and perjurers suffered torment, while the dragon Nidhogg ...
nidicolous: (from the article "psittaciform") ...only the female may incubate the eggs. The young hatch bare or with very sparse down. They are altricial-that is, they are helpless and require complete parental care-and they are ...
nido-borane: (from the article "borane") ...characteristic structural prefixes: (1) closo- (a corruption of "clovo," from Latin clovis, meaning "cage"), deltahedrons of n boron atoms; (2) nido- (from Latin nidus, meaning "nest"), nonclosed structures in which ...