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Dicalcium silicate
Dicalcium silicate (Ca₂SiO₄), known as belite in cement, is the second main silicate phase of Portland cement clinker, making up 15 to 30% and hydrating more slowly than alite.
Dicamba
Dicamba (2-methoxy-3,6-dichlorobenzoic acid) is a Group 4 synthetic auxin, benzoic acid herbicide controlling broadleaf weeds in corn, soybean, cotton, and turf; known for volatility-driven off-target crop injury and repeated US court vacaturs of its over-the-top registrations.
Dicarbofunctionalization
Dicarbofunctionalization is a chemical transformation that adds two carbon-based groups across an alkene in a single operation, forging two carbon–carbon bonds, often with nickel catalysis.
Dicarboxylate/Amino Acid:Cation Symporter
DAACS (TC 2.A.23), the Dicarboxylate/Amino Acid:Cation Symporter family, secondary transporters coupling dicarboxylate and amino acid uptake to Na+ or H+; human SLC1 members, GltPh trimer fold, bacterial DctA.
Dicarboxylic acid
A dicarboxylic acid is an organic acid containing two carboxyl groups; oxalic acid is the simplest, and adipic acid is the key monomer for nylon-6,6.
Dicarboxylic aciduria
Dicarboxylic aciduria is the abnormal urinary excretion of medium-chain dicarboxylic acids, chiefly adipic, suberic, and sebacic acids, caused by blocked mitochondrial fatty acid oxidation and seen in inherited fatty acid oxidation disorders.
Dicarboxylic aminoaciduria
Dicarboxylic aminoaciduria (glutamate-aspartate transport defect, OMIM 222730) is a rare autosomal recessive SLC1A1/EAAT3 disorder causing urinary loss of glutamate and aspartate, sometimes with hypoglycemia, kidney stones, or neuropsychiatric signs.
Dice
Dice: small polyhedral randomizers for games and gambling, from Native American dice over 12,000 years old and Ur's 2600 BC tetrahedra to NdX notation, bell-curve totals, and fair-dice design.
Dice (band)
Dice (band) covers several unrelated acts: DICE, a Perth indie-rock quartet formed 2020 (Midnight Zoo, ARIA charts), and DICE, a German progressive rock band founded 1974 by Christian Nóvé, plus other artists sharing the name.
DICE (company)
DICE (EA Digital Illusions CE AB), Swedish studio founded 1992, creator of Battlefield, Mirror's Edge, and Star Wars Battlefront, EA-owned since 2006, Frostbite engine developer.
DICE (group)
DICE (ไดซ์) is a ten-member Thai T-pop boy group under SONRAY MUSIC, formed from 789 SURVIVAL trainees and debuting in 2024 with the single "Mona Lisa".
Dice (ticketing company)
DICE is a London-based mobile ticketing and event discovery platform for live music, founded in 2014 by Phil Hutcheon and ustwo, and acquired by Fever in 2025.
Dice coefficient
The Dice coefficient, also called the Dice similarity coefficient or Sørensen–Dice coefficient, is a statistic that measures the overlap between two sets, ranging from 0 to 1.
DiCE Molecules
DiCE Molecules, renamed DICE Therapeutics in 2021, was a South San Francisco biotech that used DNA-encoded libraries to discover oral small molecules before Eli Lilly acquired it in 2023.
DICEE trial
DICEE trial (Deflated and Inflated Cuff Endotracheal Extubations, NCT06990308): a single-center blinded randomized trial at Naval Medical Center Camp Lejeune comparing deflated versus inflated cuff extubation in 88 healthy adults after non-airway surgery, using contrast chest radiography to detect airway contamination.
Dicellograptus
Dicellograptus is an extinct Ordovician graptolite genus (family Dicranograptidae) with two reclined stipes and geniculate thecae, ranging from 463.8 to 443.07 Ma worldwide and serving as a key Katian index fossil.
Dicentra
Dicentra, the true bleeding-hearts, is a genus of eight perennial herb species in Papaveraceae native from eastern Asia and Japan to North America; formerly broader, it was split in 1997, moving the garden bleeding heart to Lamprocapnos.
Dicentrarchus punctatus
Dicentrarchus punctatus, the spotted seabass (bar tacheté, Baila), a Moronidae temperate bass of the eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean, distinguished from D. labrax by dark body spots and an opercular black spot.
Dicer
Dicer (DICER1, chromosome 14q32.13) is the RNase III enzyme that cleaves pre-miRNAs and dsRNA into 21-23 nt miRNAs and siRNAs; germline variants cause DICER1 tumor predisposition with goiter, lung cysts, and rare tumors.
Dicerna Pharmaceuticals
Dicerna Pharmaceuticals was a Lexington, Massachusetts biopharmaceutical company that developed RNA interference (RNAi) therapeutics on its GalXC platform, with lead candidate nedosiran for primary hyperoxaluria.
Dichanthium
Dichanthium (bluestem) is a genus of about 20 Old World tropical C4 grasses in Poaceae, tribe Andropogoneae, related to Bothriochloa; D. annulatum and allies are major drought-tolerant tropical forage and erosion-control grasses.
Dichanthium aristatum
Dichanthium aristatum (Angleton grass, Angleton bluestem) is a perennial tropical forage grass in Poaceae, native from India to Yunnan and Malesia, with 2n = 20, 40, 60, hay yields of 4.5–13.5 t/ha, and cultivars 'Medio', 'Gordo', 'Alabang X', and 'Floren'.
Dichen Lachman
Dichen Lachman (born 1982, Kathmandu) is a Nepalese-born Australian actress known as Katya Kinski on Neighbours, Sierra in Dollhouse, and Ms. Casey/Gemma in Severance.
Dichlobenil
Dichlobenil (2,6-dichlorobenzonitrile, CAS 1194-65-6), sold as Casoron, is a benzonitrile soil herbicide acting on root meristems; its persistent metabolite BAM contaminates groundwater and led to the 2008 EU ban.
Dichlofenthion
Dichlofenthion (除线磷, CAS 97-17-6), also known as VC-13 Nemacide, is an obsolete organophosphate insecticide and nematicide introduced in 1956 for soil use against nematodes and soil insects, a cholinesterase inhibitor not approved in the EU.
Dichlofluanid
Dichlofluanid (Euparen, Elvaron), CAS 1085-98-9, is a 1965 sulfamide fungicide for fruit, vegetables, wood, and antifouling paints; banned for EU crop use but EU-approved for antifouling biocides through 2025.
Dichlone
Dichlone, also known as 2,3-dichloro-1,4-naphthoquinone, is a yellow crystalline fungicide sold as Phygon and introduced in 1940, now canceled in the US and not EU approved.
Dichlorine monoxide
Dichlorine monoxide is an inorganic compound with formula Cl₂O, a brownish-yellow gas boiling at 2.2 °C that is explosive but an effective bleaching agent for wood pulp and textiles.
Dichlorodifluoromethane
Dichlorodifluoromethane, known as CFC-12 or Freon-12, is a chlorofluorocarbon developed by Thomas Midgley's team in 1930 that was the dominant refrigerant until it was phased out as an ozone-depleting substance.
Dichlorodiphenyldichloroethylene
Dichlorodiphenyldichloroethylene (DDE) is an organochlorine compound (CASRN 72-55-9), usually the p,p′-isomer, that forms as the primary metabolite of DDT; it causes eggshell thinning in birds of prey.