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Boidae
Boidae (boas) is a family of constricting snakes including Boa, Eunectes anacondas, Corallus, Eryx sand boas, and Madagascar boas; mainly New World, mostly live-bearing, some with infrared labial pits, 67 species per the Reptile Database.
Boids
Boids is a flocking simulation model created by Craig W. Reynolds in 1986, in which three simple local rules make realistic flock, herd, and school motion emerge without a leader.
Boiga
Boiga, catsnakes or mangrove snakes (genus Boiga Fitzinger, 1826), is a genus of about 35 nocturnal, rear-fanged arboreal colubrid snakes from the Middle East to Australia; includes the brown tree snake, a devastating invasive on Guam.
Boii
Boii, an ancient Celtic people of Transalpine Gaul, Cisalpine Gaul (northern Italy), and the Danube/Boiohaemum region; fought Rome 283–191 BC, joined the Helvetii, and gave Bohemia its name.
Boii (Cisalpine Gaul)
Boii (Cisalpine Gaul): the Boii branch that settled in northern Italy around Lodi, then between Parma and Bologna; kings Atis and Galatus; subdued by Rome by 191 BC; Monte Bibele necropolis.
Boil
A boil, medically called a furuncle, is a painful, pus-filled infection of a hair follicle, usually caused by Staphylococcus aureus, that often drains on its own.
Boil-off
Boil-off is the vaporization of cryogenic propellants, such as liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen, caused by heat leaking into their storage tanks; spacecraft typically vent the vapor, losing propellant.
Boil-off gas
Boil-off gas (BOG) is the vapor formed when a cryogenic liquid such as liquefied natural gas evaporates during transport or storage as heat leaks in despite insulation.
Boil-off gas management
Boil-off gas management is the handling, minimization, or recovery of vapor formed inside cryogenic storage tanks, especially liquid hydrogen, using zero boil-off refrigeration, reliquefaction, compression, and better insulation.
Boil-water advisory
A boil-water advisory, also called a boil-water order, is a public announcement telling residents to boil tap water before ingesting it, issued when the supply is or may be contaminated.
Boiled egg
Boiled egg: an egg cooked in its shell in hot water, soft-boiled (runny yolk) or hard-boiled (solid yolk). Best simmered at 80–85°C rather than boiled; peeling depends on egg age and pH.
Boiled peanuts
Boiled peanuts, also called goober peas or pindars, are raw in-shell peanuts simmered in salted water until soft, a Southern US snack and South Carolina's official state snack since 2006, with West African origins.
Boiler
A boiler is a closed pressure vessel heat exchanger that burns fossil fuel or uses electricity to heat water or make steam for heating buildings and industrial processes.
Boiler (power generation)
A boiler, also called a steam generator, is a pressurized vessel that converts water into high-pressure steam to drive turbines in fossil-fired and nuclear power plants.
Boiler explosion
A boiler explosion is the catastrophic rupture of a boiler or pressure vessel, in which superheated water flashes explosively into steam and throws parts outward with destructive force.
Boiler feedwater
Boiler feedwater, also called feed water, is the water supplied to a steam boiler, consisting of returned condensate plus treated make-up water, conditioned to prevent scale, corrosion, and carryover of impurities into the steam.
Boiler room (business)
A boiler room, also called a boiler room scam, is a fraud operation using high-pressure phone sales to unload worthless or overpriced shares on investors.
Boiler Room (film)
Boiler Room (2000), Ben Younger's debut crime drama, stars Giovanni Ribisi as Seth Davis, a college dropout selling stocks at the fraudulent Long Island brokerage JT Marlin; with Vin Diesel, Ben Affleck, Nia Long; Metascore 63.
Boiler Room 2024 World Tour (festival)
The Boiler Room 2024 World Tour was the second edition of Boiler Room's global touring series, staging weekend-takeover events in 25 cities across five continents in 2024.
Boiler Room India (festival)
Boiler Room India is the Indian edition of Boiler Room, the London-based live music broadcaster, staging streamed events in Mumbai, Bengaluru, Delhi, and other cities since 2016.
Boiler Room x Escape Halloween (festival)
Boiler Room x Escape Halloween is a stage partnership between Boiler Room and Insomniac's Escape Halloween festival, debuting at the 2024 edition in San Bernardino, California.
Boilermaker
A boilermaker is a tradesperson who fabricates, assembles, erects, maintains, and repairs boilers, tanks, and pressure vessels, a specialized trade that grew out of nineteenth-century steam power.
Boilermaker (beer cocktail)
Boilermaker: North American beer-and-shot drink, a whiskey shot served with or dropped into beer; also called Depth Charge. Named for 1930s "Boilermaker and His Helper"; classic build is 1 oz whiskey with 8 oz beer.
Boilerplate code
Boilerplate code is repetitive, standardized code required in many places with little or no alteration, such as Java getter and setter methods, which language features like records now generate automatically.
Boiling
Boiling, also called ebulition, is the rapid vaporization that occurs throughout a liquid when its saturated vapor pressure equals the surrounding pressure, letting bubbles form inside.
Boiling frog
Boiling frog: a parable that a frog in slowly heated water will not notice and be cooked. Debunked; based on 1869 Goltz experiments on brainless frogs, used as a metaphor for gradual change.
Boiling heat transfer
Boiling heat transfer is the transfer of heat from a hot solid surface to a liquid by forming vapor bubbles, studied through the boiling curve first mapped by Nukiyama in 1934.
Boiling liquid expanding vapor explosion
A boiling liquid expanding vapor explosion (BLEVE) is the catastrophic failure of a pressurized vessel holding liquid above its boiling point, releasing blast waves, fragments, and fireballs.
Boiling point
The boiling point, or boiling temperature, of a liquid is the temperature at which its vapor pressure equals the surrounding pressure, so it depends on pressure.
Boiling Point (2021 film)
Boiling Point (2021) is a British one-take drama by Philip Barantini starring Stephen Graham as chef Andy Jones during a disastrous London restaurant service; BAFTA-nominated, expanded from a 2019 short, later a BBC series.