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BoPET
BoPET (biaxially oriented polyethylene terephthalate), best known by the trademark Mylar, is a strong, heat-resistant PET polyester film used in packaging, electrical insulation, flexible electronics, and spacecraft thermal blankets.
Bophuthatswana
Bophuthatswana (Repaboliki ya Bophuthatswana), a Tswana Bantustan declared independent by apartheid South Africa on 6 December 1977 under Lucas Mangope, capital Mmabatho, recognized only by South Africa and Transkei, and reincorporated into South Africa on 27 April 1994.
Bopolu
Bopolu, called Bokoma by the Mandingo, was a trading town in western Liberia, capital of the Condo Confederation and the largest market between the interior and the Atlantic coast.
Bopomofo (注音符號)
Bopomofo (注音符號, Zhuyin fuhao), the 37-symbol Mandarin phonetic script created in 1913 and promulgated in 1918, official in Taiwan and taught in the first 10 weeks of first grade; distinct from Hanyu Pinyin, the PRC's Latin-alphabet system.
BOPPPS model
The BOPPPS model, also called the BOPPPS teaching model, is a six-phase lesson-planning framework structuring lessons from Bridge-in to Summary, widely used in higher education.
Boquitas pintadas
Boquitas pintadas is the second novel of Argentine writer Manuel Puig, published in 1969. Presented as a serialized folletín, it portrays the desires and hypocrisies of small-town society.
BOR syndrome
BOR syndrome (branchiootorenal, Melnick-Fraser syndrome) is a rare autosomal dominant disorder of branchial arches, ears, and kidneys, mainly caused by EYA1 or SIX1 variants, with hearing loss in over 90% and CAKUT in 67%.
BOR-60
BOR-60 (БОР-60, for Fast Experimental Reactor) is a sodium-cooled fast-neutron experimental reactor at RIAR in Dimitrovgrad, Russia, operating since 1969 as a test bed for fuels and materials while supplying 12 MW of electricity.
Bor, Serbia
Bor (Бор) is a mining town in eastern Serbia, population about 41,000, built around the RTB Bor copper mine opened in 1903 and majority-owned since 2018 by China's Zijin Mining Group.
Bora
The bora is a cold, dry, gusty northeasterly downslope wind that blows from the Balkan interior over the Dinaric Alps onto the eastern Adriatic coast, strongest in winter.
Bora Bora
Bora Bora, an almost-atoll in the Leeward Islands of French Polynesia's Society archipelago about 250 km from Tahiti, features a 727 m volcanic peak, a 78 km² lagoon, motu ring, WWII-era airport, and a luxury tourism economy.
Bora Đorđević
Bora Đorđević (Бора Ђорђевић), known as Bora Čorba, was a Serbian and Yugoslav rock musician and lead vocalist of Riblja Čorba, which he founded in 1978.
Bora Drljača
Bora Drljača (Бора Дрљача), born Borislav Drljača, was a Serbian folk singer, active from the 1960s to the 2010s, best known for the hit "Plači, mala, plači".
Bora Dugić
Bora Dugić (Бора Дугић), born 1949 in Đurđevo, is a Serbian virtuoso of the frula, a shepherd's pipe, and a Radio Television of Serbia soloist for three decades.
Bora Kostic
Bora Kostic (Borivoje Kostić, 1930–2011), Yugoslav left winger for Red Star Belgrade; 580 games and 539 goals for the club, captain of Yugoslavia's 1960 Olympic gold team, and runner-up at the 1960 European Nations' Cup.
Bora Milutinović
Velibor "Bora" Milutinović (Велибор Милутиновић), born 1944, Serbian football manager who coached five different nations at five consecutive World Cups (Mexico 1986 to China 2002) and eight national teams in total.
Bora Ring
A bora ring is an Aboriginal Australian ceremonial site of one or two circular earth rings in southeastern Australia where initiation ceremonies called bora were held.
Bora Uzer
Bora Uzer is a Turkish-born live electronic artist and multi-instrumentalist who builds each show on stage with guitar, synths, and loopers rather than playing a prepared DJ set.
Bora-Bericha-Tullu Moye
Bora-Bericha-Tullu Moye (BBTM) is an active silicic volcanic complex of three edifices and nested calderas in the central Main Ethiopian Rift, Ethiopia, last erupting about 1900 CE, with geothermal development and over 27 explosive eruptions in 100,000 years.
Boracarboxylation
Boracarboxylation is a chemical reaction that adds a boryl group and a carboxylate across an alkene or alkyne with carbon dioxide and a diboron reagent.
Boracay
Boracay is a 10.32 sq km resort island in Malay, Aklan, Philippines, off Panay, famed for White Beach. Over 2 million tourists in 2017; closed six months in 2018 by Duterte as a 'cesspool' for sewage rehabilitation; reopened with carrying-capacity limits.
Borage
Borage (Borago officinalis, starflower) is a Mediterranean annual herb with edible blue star flowers and cucumber-flavored leaves; its seed oil is the richest plant source of GLA, though oral borage oil shows no benefit for eczema.
Boraginaceae
Boraginaceae, the borage or forget-me-not family (Boraginales), comprises roughly 90 genera and 1,600–1,700 species sensu stricto, with rough-haired alternate leaves, scorpioid cymes, gynobasic styles, and four-nutlet fruits; APG IV treats it as the sole family of its order.
Boraginales
Boraginales, the borage order, is an order of lamiid flowering plants with ~2,700 species; APG IV treats it as one family Boraginaceae, while recent phylogenomics proposes nine families.
Borah High School
Borah High School, formally Borah Senior High School, is a public high school in Boise, Idaho, opened in 1958 and named for Senator William E. Borah.
Borah Peak (mountain, United States)
Borah Peak (Mount Borah), Idaho's highest mountain at 12,662 ft in the Lost River Range, an ultra-prominent Class 3 scramble via Chicken Out Ridge and site of Idaho's largest recorded earthquake, the 1983 magnitude 6.9 event.
Boralex Inc.
Boralex Inc. is a Canadian renewable power producer based in Kingsey Falls, Quebec, operating wind, solar, hydro, and storage assets in Canada, France, the US, and the UK.
Borama
Borama (Boorama), capital of the Awdal region in northwestern Somaliland, a high-altitude semi-arid city of roughly 150,000–360,000 people, home of Amoud University, host of the 1993 Borama peace conference, and dependent entirely on depleting groundwater.
Borane
Borane, also called monoborane, is the simplest boron hydride, BH₃, an electron-deficient gas that dimerizes to diborane and is used as a reagent in organic synthesis.
Borane dimethylsulfide
Borane dimethylsulfide (BH3·SMe2), usually abbreviated BMS, is the adduct of borane with dimethyl sulfide, a concentrated, storable liquid reagent for hydroboration and reductions in organic synthesis.