All articles starting with B

Borrelia burgdorferi

Borrelia burgdorferi, a spirochete bacterium in the Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato complex with B. afzelii and B. garinii, is transmitted by Ixodes ticks and causes Lyme borreliosis, mainly in North America.

Borreliasis

Borreliasis, also called Lyme borreliosis or Lyme disease, is infection with Borrelia spirochetes transmitted by Ixodes ticks, causing erythema migrans and possible neuroborreliosis; it is a non-WOAH-listed wildlife disease.

Sep 27, 2026

Borris Miles

Borris L. Miles is an American Democratic politician representing District 13 in the Texas Senate, after five terms in the Texas House of Representatives from 2007 to 2017.

Borromean nucleus

A Borromean nucleus is a bound three-body nuclear system, typically a core plus two valence nucleons, that falls apart if any single part is removed, like the Borromean rings.

Borromean rings

The Borromean rings are three loops linked so that no two are linked, and cutting any one frees the other two; named for the Borromeo family emblem.

Oct 10, 2026

Borrowing costs

Borrowing costs are the interest and other costs an entity incurs in connection with borrowing funds; IAS 23 and ASC 835-20 govern when they are capitalized.

Sep 29, 2026

Borrowing hydrogen

Borrowing hydrogen, also called hydrogen autotransfer, is a catalytic strategy in organic chemistry in which a metal catalyst temporarily removes hydrogen from an alcohol or amine and returns it.

Bors

Bors (Bohors, Bohort), knight of the Round Table in the Vulgate Cycle and Malory's Morte d'Arthur: cousin of Lancelot, one of three Grail achievers with Galahad and Perceval, and the only one to return to Camelot.

Oct 10, 2026

Borsa İstanbul

Borsa İstanbul is Turkey's stock exchange, based in Istanbul, with 539 listed companies and a market capitalization of TL 10.04 trillion at the end of 2023.

Borscht (Борщ)

Borscht (борщ) is a family of Eastern European sour soups built on beetroot, with hot red, green, cold, and white variants across Ukraine, Poland, Lithuania, and Russia; UNESCO inscribed Ukrainian borscht cooking for urgent safeguarding in 2022.

Borscht Belt

The Borscht Belt, or Jewish Alps, was a cluster of Jewish-owned summer resorts in New York's Catskills, active from the 1890s to the 1970s, peaking in the 1950s-60s with up to 150,000 guests yearly and launching generations of American comedians before declining amid cheap airfare, air conditioning, and reduced antisemitism.

Oct 22, 2026

Börsenblatt für den Deutschen Buchhandel

Börsenblatt für den Deutschen Buchhandel, the trade journal of the German book industry, was founded in Leipzig in 1834 and is one of the oldest trade journals still published.

Borshchahivka

Borshchahivka (Борщагівка), a historical area of five former monastery villages on southwestern Kyiv's outskirts; first recorded 1108–1113, river noted as Boerßgowka in 1584, now a dense Sviatoshynskyi District housing massif.

Borshchiv Raion

Borshchiv Raion (Борщівський район) was a district in southeastern Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine, centered on Borshchiv; area 1,000 km², population 75,340 (2001); abolished 18 July 2020 and merged into Chortkiv Raion.

Borsig

Borsig is a German engineering company founded by August Borsig in Berlin in 1837, which built 16,352 steam locomotives before turning to pressure vessels and compressors.

Sep 19, 2026

Borsippa

Borsippa, also known as Barsippa or Birs Nimrud, was a Babylonian cult city of the god Nabu about 20 km southwest of Babylon, with a ziggurat rebuilt by Nebuchadnezzar II.

Borsippa Sulcus

Borsippa Sulcus is a 3300 km grooved-terrain sulcus on Jupiter's moon Ganymede, centered at -60°, 0°, IAU-approved July 29, 2013, named for the Akkadian town of Nabu's sanctuary.

Borský Peter

Borský Peter (Búrszentpéter), a village part of Borský Mikuláš in Senica District, Slovakia, merged in 1975; known for its 14th-century fortified Gothic church of Sts. Peter and Paul and Red Army burials.

Borsod-Abauj Zemplen county

Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén (Borsod-Abauj Zemplen) county, north-eastern Hungary, seat Miskolc; formed 1950 from Borsod, Abaúj, Zemplén; 7,247 km², 604,493 people, 358 settlements, second largest Hungarian county.

BorsodChem

BorsodChem is a Hungarian chemical manufacturer headquartered in Kazincbarcika that produces MDI, TDI, PVC, and chlor-alkali chemicals, owned since 2011 by China's Wanhua Chemical Group.

Borssele nuclear power plant

The Borssele nuclear power plant (Kerncentrale Borssele) is a Siemens-designed pressurized water reactor in Zeeland, the Netherlands' only operating commercial nuclear plant, supplying about 4 percent of its electricity since 1973.

Borstal

Borstal: British custodial institution for young offenders aged 16 to 21, first opened 1902 at Borstal, Kent, by Evelyn Ruggles-Brise; statutory under the Prevention of Crime Act 1908; abolished 1982, replaced by youth custody centres.

Oct 22, 2026

Borstal Boy

Borstal Boy is a 1958 autobiographical novel by the Irish writer Brendan Behan, recounting his 1939 arrest in Liverpool and three years in English borstal institutions.

Borstar

Borstar is Borealis's proprietary process technology for making bimodal polyethylene and polypropylene, combining a supercritical-propane slurry loop reactor with a gas-phase reactor, first commercialized at Porvoo, Finland in 1995.

Borsuk's conjecture

Borsuk's conjecture, also known as the Borsuk problem, is a 1933 claim by Karol Borsuk that every bounded set in d-dimensional space splits into d + 1 smaller-diameter parts.

Bort

Bort (also spelled boart, boort, or bortz) is low-quality diamond, useless as gemstones, valuable chiefly as an industrial abrasive in drill bits and grinding wheels.

Börte

Börte (c. 1161–1230), senior wife of Genghis Khan and grand empress of the Mongol Empire; her Merkit kidnapping around 1181 prompted the alliances that launched Temüjin's rise, and her four sons and five daughters shaped imperial succession.