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Barium stannate
Barium stannate (BaSnO₃, often abbreviated BSO) is a wide-bandgap transparent semiconducting oxide with a cubic perovskite structure, notable for its high electron mobility when doped.
Barium star
A barium star, or Ba II star, is a chemically peculiar red giant with an atmosphere overabundant in barium and other heavy elements despite being too faint to make them.
Barium strontium cobalt ferrite
Ba0.5Sr0.5Co0.8Fe0.2O3, or BSCF, is a mixed-conducting perovskite oxide, benchmark electrocatalyst for the oxygen evolution reaction in alkaline media, and cathode material for solid oxide fuel cells.
Barium strontium titanate
Barium strontium titanate (BST) is a ferroelectric perovskite solid solution of barium titanate and strontium titanate whose dielectric constant is electrically tunable, making it valuable for microwave phase shifters, filters, and varactors.
Barium sulfate
Barium sulfate (BaSO4), the mineral barite, is a white insoluble salt used as a weighting agent in oil-well drilling muds and as a contrast material for x-ray imaging.
Barium titanate
Barium titanate (BaTiO₃) is a perovskite ceramic of barium, titanium, and oxygen, first ferroelectric oxide without hydrogen bonding and the main dielectric in multilayer ceramic capacitors.
Barium titanate photonics
Barium titanate photonics is the use of thin-film barium titanate (BaTiO₃, BTO), a ferroelectric perovskite oxide, as the electro-optic material in silicon-integrated photonic devices such as modulators.
Barış Arduç
Barış Arduç (born 1987) is a Turkish TV and film actor of Albanian descent, known for Kiralık Aşk's Ömer İplikçi, Alparslan, and Netflix's Kulüp.
Barış Bıçakçı
Barış Bıçakçı (born 1966, Adana) is a Turkish novelist, short-story writer, and translator whose plain, minimalist fiction is set almost entirely in Ankara, making him closely identified with the capital in contemporary Turkish literature.
Barjac
Barjac: name of two Occitanie communes, Barjac (Gard), a Renaissance town with Neolithic dolmens and the Grotte de Barjac, and Barjac (Lozère), seat of the baronnie de Cénaret with baryte mines; also an ancient Pleiades place and an Aveyron dolmen.
Barjis
Bargese, also Barjis, Barsis, or B'rsis, is a traditional Syrian pachisi-family race board game for two players with four pieces each, played on an embroidered cross-shaped cloth using six cowrie shells as dice; pieces race to the central kitchen square.
Bark
Bark is an open-source generative text-to-audio model released by the AI company Suno in April 2023, built from three transformer models that generate multilingual speech, music, and sound effects.
Bark (sound)
A bark is a short, explosive, pulsed vocalization of canids, the signature call of the domestic dog, while wolves bark rarely, mainly in alarm or threat.
Bark at the Moon
Bark at the Moon, also called Bark At The Moon, is Ozzy Osbourne's third studio album, released 15 November 1983, his first with guitarist Jake E. Lee after Randy Rhoads's death; it peaked at No. 19 on the Billboard 200 and was certified 3x Multi-Platinum by the RIAA.
Bark beetle
Bark beetles (Scolytinae) are phloem-feeding beetles of conifers; species like Dendroctonus ponderosae and Ips typographus mass-attack trees using aggregation pheromones and fungal symbionts, causing major outbreaks shaped by drought and warming.
Bark painting
Bark painting is an Australian Aboriginal art form using earth pigments on eucalyptus bark, most characteristically in Arnhem Land, with surviving works dating from the mid-19th century.
Barkat Jamal Fakir Troupe
Barkat Jamal Fakir Troupe is a Pakistani Sufi ensemble from Jhol, Sindh, led by Barkat Jamal, known for 'Maahi Diyaan Jhokaan' on Coke Studio Pakistan in 2019.
Barker code
A Barker code is a sequence of ±1 values whose autocorrelation sidelobes never exceed 1 in magnitude, proposed by R.H. Barker in 1953 and used in radar and Wi-Fi.
Barker College
Barker College (Hornsby, Sydney) is an independent coeducational Anglican day and boarding school, Pre-K to Year 12. Founded 1890 by Henry Plume, Anglican-owned since 1919, fully coed by 2022, with Indigenous campuses Darkinjung, Ngarralingayil, and Dhupuma Barker.
Barker Ranch
Barker Ranch (Thomason/Barker Ranch) is a five-acre former mining retreat in Goler Wash, Death Valley National Park, California, built in the 1930s by the Thomasons and enlarged by the Barkers; it was the Manson Family's last hideout, raided in 1969, searched for graves in 2008, and burned in 2009.
Barkevious Mingo
Barkevious Mingo, NFL outside linebacker from West Monroe, Louisiana; LSU star drafted sixth overall by Cleveland in 2013; 126 games, 12.5 sacks, six teams in six seasons, one Super Bowl.
Barkha Dutt (बरखा दत्त)
Barkha Dutt (बरखा दत्त), born 1971, is an Indian broadcast journalist known for frontline 1999 Kargil War reporting at NDTV, hosting We the People and The Buck Stops Here, the Radia tapes controversy, Padma Shri, and founding Mojo Story.
Barkha Singh (बरखा सिंह)
Barkha Singh (बरखा सिंह), Indian actress born 1992 in Bikaner, Rajasthan; child artist in Mujhse Dosti Karoge (2002), TV's Girls On Top, web star of Engineering Girls and Please Find Attached, later Criminal Justice 4 and The Sabarmati Report.
Barkhad Abdi
Barkhad Abdi (Somali: Barkhad Cabdi, born 1985, Mogadishu) is a Somali-American actor; his debut as pirate captain Muse in Captain Phillips (2013) won a BAFTA and brought Oscar, Golden Globe, and SAG nominations, launching credits including Blade Runner 2049 and The Curse.
Barkhausen effect
The Barkhausen effect is the appearance of discrete, noise-like jumps in a ferromagnetic material's magnetization under a continuously changing magnetic field, discovered by Heinrich Barkhausen in 1919.
Barking
Barking is a town in eastern Greater London, England, on the River Roding about 7 miles east of central London, once a fishing port built around a medieval abbey.
Barking Abbey
Barking Abbey (St Mary and St Ethelburga's) was England's first nunnery, founded c.666 by Erkenwald, refounded c.965 after Danish destruction, the leading Benedictine nunnery until its 1539 dissolution; ruins survive at Barking, London.
Barking Dogs Never Bite (플란다스의 개)
Barking Dogs Never Bite (플란다스의 개, Flandersui Gae) is Bong Joon-ho's 2000 South Korean debut feature, a dark comedy in which lecturer Yun-ju (Lee Sung-jae) dognaps apartment dogs while office worker Hyun-nam (Bae Doona) investigates the disappearances.
Barkiyaruq
Barkiyaruq (برکیارق), full name Rukn al-Din Abu'l-Mozaffar Barkiyaruq ibn Malikshah, was the Great Seljuk sultan of Iran and Iraq from 1092 to 1104, fighting five succession wars against his brother Muhammad Tapar.
Barkley Marathons
The Barkley Marathons is an annual ultramarathon at Frozen Head State Park, Tennessee, created in 1986, where roughly 40 runners attempt five unmarked loops in 60 hours.