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  2. Organic chemistry - Wikipedia

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    Organic chemistry is a subdiscipline within chemistry involving the scientific study of the structure, properties, and reactions of organic compounds and organic materials, i.e., matter in its various forms that contain carbon atoms. [1]

  3. General officer commanding - Wikipedia

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    General officer commanding (GOC) is the usual title given in the armies of the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth (and some other nations, such as Ireland) to a general officer who holds a command appointment. [1] Thus, a general might be the GOC British II Corps (a three-star appointment) or GOC British 7th Armoured Division (a two-star ...

  4. Ground Observer Corps - Wikipedia

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    The Ground Observer Corps (GOC), sometimes erroneously referred to as the Ground Observation Corps, was the name of two American civil defense organizations during the middle 20th century. World War II organization

  5. Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell - Wikipedia

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    She died, as the Countess Wavell, on 11 October 1987, aged 100 years. [235] Children: Archibald John Arthur Wavell, later 2nd Earl Wavell, b. 11 May 1916; d. 24 December 1953, killed in Kenya, in an action against Mau Mau rebels. Since he was unmarried and without issue, the titles became extinct on his death.

  6. N. C. Rawlley - Wikipedia

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    In 1961, he returned to India and took command of the 11th Infantry Brigade. He was awarded the Ati Vishisht Seva Medal (then called Vishisht Seva Medal Class II) in January 1962. [8] During the Sino-Indian War, the brigade fought well in Walong in the Lohit division of the then North-East Frontier Agency. The Battle of Walong was the only ...

  7. List of Namibian generals - Wikipedia

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    GOC 26 Mot Inf Brigade [11] 1990–2017 BRIG GEN: Erasmus Amupolo: GOC 26 Mot Inf Brigade: 1990–2014 BRIG GEN: Holden Uulenga: GOC 26 Mot Inf Brigade: 1990– BRIG GEN: Peter Shikolalye: GOC 26 Mot Inf Brigade: 1990–2016 BRIG GEN: Epimacus Tshavuka: GOC 26 Mot Inf Brigade [11] 1990–2019 BRIG GEN: Willem Shigwedha: GOC 26 Mot Inf Brigade ...

  8. Hydrocarbon - Wikipedia

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    [10] [11] Often this energy is used directly as heat such as in home heaters, which use either petroleum or natural gas. The hydrocarbon is burnt and the heat is used to heat water, which is then circulated. A similar principle is used to create electrical energy in power plants. Both saturated and unsaturated hydrocarbons undergo this process.

  9. Ring expansion and contraction - Wikipedia

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    The Dowd-Beckwith ring expansion reaction is also capable of adding several carbons to a ring at a time, and is a useful tool for making large rings. [11] While it proceeds through an intermediate bicycle the final cyclization and ring opening take place within the same radical reaction . [ 12 ]