- Pet [pdf] [ppt] [doc]
A pet is an animal kept for companionship and enjoyment or a household animal, as opposed to livestock, laboratory animals, working animals or sport animals, which are kept for economic reasons. The most popular pets are noted for their loyal or playful c
- Malfunction Indicator Lamp [pdf] [ppt] [doc]
A malfunction indicator lamp (MIL), commonly referred to as the "Check Engine Light" is an indicator of malfunction of the computerized engine management system. It is found on the instrument console of most automobiles. When illuminated, it is typically
- Berkelium [pdf] [ppt] [doc]
Berkelium (pronounced /b?r?ki?li.?m/ b?r-KEE-lee-?m, less commonly /?b?rkli.?m/ BERK-lee-?m) is a synthetic element with the symbol Bk and atomic number 97. A radioactive metallic element in the actinide series, berkelium was first synthesized by bombardi
- Cocoa [pdf] [ppt] [doc]
Cocoa is the dried and fully fermented fatty seed of the cacao tree, from which chocolate is made. (The word "cocoa" is derivative of "cacao".) "Cocoa" can often also refer to the drink commonly known as hot chocolate;[1] to cocoa powder, the dry powder m
- Automobile industry in China [pdf] [ppt] [doc]
China's automobile industry is in rapid development since the year 2000. In 2008, 9.345 million motor vehicles were manufactured in China, surpassing United States as the second largest automobile maker, after Japan. China is the largest car market in the
- History of perfume [pdf] [ppt] [doc]
The history of perfume began in antiquity. The word perfume used today to describe scented mixtures, derives from the Latin "per fumus", meaning through smoke. Perfumery, or the art of making perfumes, began in ancient Egypt but was developed and further
- Telephone [pdf] [ppt] [doc]
The telephone (from the Greek: ????, t?le, "far" and ????, ph?n?, "voice") is a telecommunications device that transmits and receives sound, most commonly the human voice. It is one of the most common household appliances in the developed world, and has l
- Tycoon [pdf] [ppt] [doc]
A business magnate, sometimes referred to as a mogul, tycoon, baron, oligarch, or industrialist, is a partially informal term used to refer to a person who has reached a prominent place in a particular industry (or set of industries) and whose wealth has
- Draw plate [pdf] [ppt] [doc]
A draw plate, or "drawing die", is type of die consisting of metal plate with one or more holes through which wire is drawn to make it thinner. With a mandrel, a draw plate can be used to draw tubes of metal. Plates are available in many different sizes a
- Driverless car [pdf] [ppt] [doc]
The driverless car is an autonomous vehicle that can drive itself from one point to another without assistance from a driver. Some believe that autonomous vehicles have the potential to transform the transportation industry while virtually eliminating acc
- Pearl [pdf] [ppt] [doc]
A pearl is a hard, generally spherical object produced within the soft tissue (specifically the mantle) of a living shelled mollusk. Just like the shell of a mollusk, a pearl is made up of calcium carbonate in minute crystalline form, which has been depos
- Berkelium [pdf] [ppt] [doc]
Berkelium (pronounced /b?r?ki?li.?m/ b?r-KEE-lee-?m, less commonly /?b?rkli.?m/ BERK-lee-?m) is a synthetic element with the symbol Bk and atomic number 97. A radioactive metallic element in the actinide series, berkelium was first synthesized by bombardi
- Circle with a point at its centre [pdf] [ppt] [doc]
The circled dot, circumpunct, or circle with a point at its centre is an ancient symbol. It can symbolize:
- Category:Wikipedia indefinitely move-protected pages [pdf] [ppt] [doc]
This category contains pages which have been protected from page moves only indefinitely.
- Hong Kong dollar [pdf] [ppt] [doc]
The Hong Kong dollar (sign: $; code: HKD) is the currency of Hong Kong. It is the 9th most traded currency in the world.[1] In English, it is normally abbreviated with the dollar sign $, or alternatively HK$ to distinguish it from other dollar-denominated
- Prospecting [pdf] [ppt] [doc]
Prospecting is the physical search for minerals, fossils, precious metals or mineral specimens, and is also known as fossicking.
- Telecommunication [pdf] [ppt] [doc]
Telecommunication is transmission over a distance for the purpose of communication. In earlier times, this may have involved the use of smoke signals, drums, semaphore, flags or heliograph. In modern times, telecommunication typically involves the use of
- List of software for molecular mechanics modeling [pdf] [ppt] [doc]
This is a list of computer programs that are predominantly used for molecular mechanics calculations.
- Redirected to:Foreign exchange market [pdf] [ppt] [doc]
The foreign exchange market (currency, forex, or FX) trades currencies. It lets banks and other institutions easily buy and sell currencies. [1]
- Samuel Brown (engineer) [pdf] [ppt] [doc]
This article is about the English engineer and inventor. See Samuel Brown for other persons of the same name.
- Television [pdf] [ppt] [doc]
Television (TV) is a widely used telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images, either monochromatic ("black and white") or color, usually accompanied by sound. "Television" may also refer specifically to a television set, televisi
- Phoenicia [pdf] [ppt] [doc]
Phoenicia (Phoenician: , Canaan or Kana'an, nonstandardly, Phenicia; pronounced /f??n??i?/[2], Greek: ???????: Phoiník?, Latin: Phœnicia) what is now modern day Lebanon, was an ancient civilization centered in the north of ancient Canaan, with its heartla
- Dimercaprol [pdf] [ppt] [doc]
Dimercaprol (INN) or British anti-Lewisite (abbreviated BAL), is a compound developed by British biochemists at Oxford University during World War II.[1][2] It was developed secretly as an antidote for Lewisite, the now-obsolete arsenic-based chemical war
- Toaster [pdf] [ppt] [doc]
The toaster is typically a small electric kitchen appliance designed to toast multiple types of bread products. A typical modern two-slice toaster draws anywhere between 600 and 1200 W and makes toast in 1 to 3 minutes. There are also non-electrical toast
- Regulation Fair Disclosure [pdf] [ppt] [doc]
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC's) Regulation Fair Disclosure, also commonly referred to as Regulation FD or Reg FD was an SEC ruling implemented in October 2000 ([1]). It mandated that all publicly traded companies must disclose materi
- Internet real estate [pdf] [ppt] [doc]
Internet real estate is a term used to describe the online promotion of commercial and residential real estate or the ownership of revenue-producing online properties such as domain names or websites. The term Internet Estate Realty is also used.
- New Jerusalem [pdf] [ppt] [doc]
In religion, the New Jerusalem (also called the tabernacle of God, holy city, city of God, celestial city, and heavenly Jerusalem in the Book of Revelation, as well as Jerusalem above, Zion, and shining city on a hill elsewhere), is a city that is or will
- Radio frequency [pdf] [ppt] [doc]
Radio frequency (RF) is a frequency, or rate of oscillation, of electromagnetic radiation within the range of about 3 Hz to 300 GHz. This range corresponds to the frequency of alternating current electrical signals used to produce and detect rad
- Block heater [pdf] [ppt] [doc]
A block heater is an electric heater that heats the engine of a car to ease starting in cold weather. They are connected to normal AC power overnight or before driving, via regular power plugs that are fed through a vehicle's grille. This allows easier st
- Cost of capital [pdf] [ppt] [doc]
In business and finance, the cost of capital is the cost of obtaining funds for, or, conversely, the required return necessary to meet its cost of financing a capital budgeting project. Said another way, it is "the minimum return that a company should mak
- Market liquidity [pdf] [ppt] [doc]
Market liquidity is a business, economics or investment term that refers to an asset's ability to be easily converted through an act of buying or selling without causing a significant movement in the price and with minimum loss of value. Money, or cash on
- Fixed-wing aircraft [pdf] [ppt] [doc]
A fixed-wing aircraft, usually called an airplane, aeroplane or plane, is an aircraft capable of flight using forward motion that causes air to pass over its wings to generate lift. Planes include jet engine and propeller driven vehicles propelled forward
- Monorail [pdf] [ppt] [doc]
A monorail is a rail-based transportation system based on a single rail, which acts as its sole support and its guideway. The term is also used variously to describe the beam of the system, or the vehicles traveling on such a beam or track. The term origi
- Mikimoto K%C5%8Dkichi [pdf] [ppt] [doc]
Mikimoto K?kichi (??? ???); (10 March 1858 – 21 September 1954) was a Japanese entrepreneur and adopter of the Mise/Nishikawa technique for production of spherical cultured pearls.
- Ignition coil [pdf] [ppt] [doc]
An ignition coil (also called a spark coil) is an induction coil in an automobile's ignition system which transforms the battery's 12 volts (6 volts in some older vehicles) to the thousands of volts (20 to 30 thousand volts) needed to spark the spark plug
- Mary of Burgundy [pdf] [ppt] [doc]

- Philosopher\'s stone [pdf] [ppt] [doc]
The philosopher's stone (Latin: lapis philosophorum; Greek: chrysopoeia) is a legendary alchemical tool, supposedly capable of turning base metals into gold; it was also sometimes believed to be an elixir of life, useful for rejuvenation and possibly for
- Fragrance museum [pdf] [ppt] [doc]
The Farina fragrance museum is situated across from the town-hall, and near the famous Wallraf-Richartz-Museum in the Obenmarspforten street in Cologne. Founded in 1709, John Maria Farina opposite the Jülichs Place is the eldest fragrance factory still st
- Compact MPV [pdf] [ppt] [doc]
A Compact MPV is a car classification used in Europe to describe multi-purpose vehicle versions of small family cars (sometimes also referred to as "compact cars"), fitting between the mini MPV and large MPV sub-segments. In Japan, the term "space wagon"
- Chassis [pdf] [ppt] [doc]
A chassis (plural: "chassis") (pronounced /??æsi, ?t?æsi/) consists of a framework that supports an inanimate object, analogous to an animal's skeleton, for example in a motor vehicle or a firearm.
- Contact patch [pdf] [ppt] [doc]
Contact patch is the portion of a vehicle's tire that is in actual contact with the road surface. It is most commonly used in the discussion of pneumatic tires, (i.e. pressurized tires), where the term is strictly used to describe the portion of the tire’
- List of large aircraft [pdf] [ppt] [doc]
This is a list of notably large aircraft.[clarification needed]
- Real estate [pdf] [ppt] [doc]
Real estate is a legal term (in some jurisdictions, such as the USA, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and The Bahamas) that encompasses land along with anything permanently affixed to the land, such as buildings, specifically property that is fixed in lo
- Birch [pdf] [ppt] [doc]
Birch is the name of any tree of the genus Betula (pronounced /?b?tj?l?/ Bé-tu-la),[1] in the family Betulaceae, closely related to the beech/oak family, Fagaceae.
- Mazda RX-2 [pdf] [ppt] [doc]
The Mazda RX-2 was a midsize car introduced in 1970 and sold through 1978. It used a rotary engine and shared a chassis with the piston-engined Mazda Capella/616/618.
- Mexican peso [pdf] [ppt] [doc]
The peso (sign: $; code: MXN) is the currency of Mexico. The peso was the first currency in the world to use the "$" sign, which the United States dollar later adopted for its own use.[1] The peso is the 12th most traded currency in the world and by far t
- Exonumia [pdf] [ppt] [doc]
Exonumia are numismatic items (such as tokens, medals, or scrip) other than coins and paper money. This includes elongated coins, encased coins, souvenir medallions, tags, badges, counterstamped coins, wooden nickels and other similar items. It is related
- Sustainable transport [pdf] [ppt] [doc]
Sustainable transport systems make a positive contribution to the environmental, social and economic sustainability of the communities they serve. Transport systems exist to provide social and economic connections, and people quickly take up the opportuni
- Ambergris [pdf] [ppt] [doc]
Ambergris (Ambra grisea, Ambre gris, ambergrease, or grey amber) is a solid, waxy, flammable substance of a dull grey or blackish colour produced in the digestive system of sperm whales.
- Mexican peso [pdf] [ppt] [doc]
The peso (sign: $; code: MXN) is the currency of Mexico. The peso was the first currency in the world to use the "$" sign, which the United States dollar later adopted for its own use.[1] The peso is the 12th most traded currency in the world and by far t