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  2. Carbofuran - Wikipedia

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    Carbofuran is known to be particularly toxic to birds. In its granular form, a single grain will kill a bird. Birds often eat numerous grains of the pesticide, mistaking them for seeds, and then die shortly thereafter. Before the granular form was banned by the EPA in 1991, [16] it was blamed for millions of bird deaths per year. The liquid ...

  3. Phosgene - Wikipedia

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    Phosgene is also used to produce monoisocyanates, used as pesticide precursors (e.g. methyl isocyanate (MIC). Aside from the widely used reactions described above, phosgene is also used to produce acyl chlorides from carboxylic acids: R−C(=O)−OH + COCl 2 → R−C(=O)−Cl + HCl + CO 2

  4. List of breakfast foods - Wikipedia

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    An unrolled crêpe with whipped cream and strawberry sauce. Calas [34] – a breakfast food in New Orleans [35]; Cereal – Processed food made from grain; Cereal bar – Oat bar made with butter, sugar & syrup [22]

  5. Biryani - Wikipedia

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    To prevent this, many kacchi recipes use parboiled (semi-cooked) rice rather than raw rice. If direct heat is used, there is a risk that the food layer in contact with the vessel bottom may get burned while the interior's contents are still raw. This risk is minimized by sustained baking with moderate heat or very slow cooking on low direct heat.

  6. Hydrochloric acid - Wikipedia

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    Recipes for its production started to appear in the late sixteenth century. The earliest recipes for the production of hydrochloric acid are found in Giovanni Battista Della Porta 's (1535–1615) Magiae naturalis ("Natural Magic") and in the works of other contemporary chemists like Andreas Libavius ( c. 1550 –1616), Jean Beguin (1550–1620 ...

  7. Tryptophan - Wikipedia

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    Tryptophan (symbol Trp or W) [3] is an α-amino acid that is used in the biosynthesis of proteins.Tryptophan contains an α-amino group, an α-carboxylic acid group, and a side chain indole, making it a polar molecule with a non-polar aromatic beta carbon substituent.

  8. Dibutyl ether - Wikipedia

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    Dibutyl ether is a chemical compound belonging to the ether family with the molecular formula of C 8 H 18 O.It is colorless, volatile, and flammable liquid and has peculiar ethereal smell.

  9. Environmental policy of the Joe Biden administration - Wikipedia

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    [36] [37] [38] During his inauguration, Biden said: "A cry for survival comes from the planet itself, a cry that can't be any more desperate or any more clear." However, some activists have criticized the administration's policies for being insufficient to prevent catastrophic climate change. [ 39 ]