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Fumaric acid
Fumaric acid, also called trans-butenedioic acid, is a white crystalline dicarboxylic acid used as the food acidity regulator E297, in polyester resins, and produced industrially from maleic acid.
Fumarole
A fumarole is an opening in the Earth's surface that emits steam and volcanic gases, forming near active volcanoes or where magma rises without erupting.
Fumarylacetoacetate hydrolase
Fumarylacetoacetate hydrolase (FAH, fumarylacetoacetase, EC 3.7.1.2) is the final enzyme of tyrosine catabolism, cleaving fumarylacetoacetate into fumarate and acetoacetate; its deficiency causes hereditary tyrosinemia type I.
Fume hood
A fume hood, also called a fume cupboard, is a ventilated laboratory enclosure that draws toxic vapors and fumes away from the worker and exhausts them outside.
Fumeancats (黄阿玛的后宫生活)
Fumeancats (黄阿玛的后宫生活) is a Taiwanese cat-content brand founded in 2009 by Chiming and Leemeow around the adopted stray cat Ama and his seven cat 'harem,' known for its YouTube channel, books, merchandise, and 2022 animated series.
Fumi-e
Fumi-e (踏絵) were images of Christ or Mary that people in Edo-period Japan were forced to trample to prove they were not Christian, from 1628 to the 1850s.
Fumiaki Marumo
Fumiaki Marumo (丸茂 文昭) is a Japanese nephrologist at Tokyo Medical and Dental University known for showing that urinary aquaporin-2 excretion indexes vasopressin action on the kidney.
Fumigation
Fumigation is pest control using volatile gases (fumigants) that diffuse through enclosed spaces; key fumigants include sulfuryl fluoride, the primary residential structural fumigant, and methyl bromide, phased out in 2005 under the Montreal Protocol.
Fumihiko Tachiki (立木文彦)
Fumihiko Tachiki (立木文彦), born 1961 in Nagasaki, is a Japanese voice actor and narrator with Osawa Office, known as Gendo Ikari in Evangelion, Kenpachi Zaraki in Bleach, Vodka in Detective Conan, and PRIDE/RIZIN narration.
Fumihito, Crown Prince of Japan
Fumihito, Crown Prince of Japan (Prince Akishino), born 1965, is Emperor Naruhito's younger brother and first in line to the Chrysanthemum Throne since 2019; ornithologist with a Ph.D. in chicken domestication, father of Prince Hisahito.
Fumiko Enchi
Fumiko Enchi (1905–1986) was a Japanese novelist and playwright of the Showa era known for works on women's repressed inner lives, winning major literary prizes.
Fumimaro Konoe (近衛文麿)
Konoe Fumimaro (近衛文麿, 1891–1945) was a Fujiwara-descent prince and three-time Japanese prime minister whose have-not-nation worldview, New Order declaration, Imperial Rule Assistance Association, and failed 1941 Roosevelt summit preceded Japan's wars.
Fumimaro Takaku
Fumimaro Takaku (髙久 史麿) was a Japanese physician-scientist in hematology known for colony-stimulating factor trials and oncogene studies in myelodysplastic syndrome; he died in 2022.
Fuming Mouth
Fuming Mouth is a Massachusetts death metal band formed in 2013 by Mark Whelan, blending Entombed-style HM-2 death metal with hardcore. Albums: The Grand Descent (2019), Last Day of Sun (2023), The Ringing Bell (2026) with ex-Slipknot drummer Jay Weinberg.
Fumio Hanaoka
Fumio Hanaoka (花岡 文雄) is a Japanese molecular biologist whose 1999 identification of DNA polymerase η explained how cells bypass ultraviolet DNA damage, after professorships at Osaka University and RIKEN.
Fumio Hirata
Fumio Hirata (平田 文男) is a Japanese theoretical chemist known for the RISM family of liquid-state theories describing solvation by statistical mechanics, implemented in software such as AMBER.
Fumio Imamoto
Fumio Imamoto (今本文男) is a Japanese molecular biologist known for work on the tryptophan operon, messenger RNA degradation, and transcription-translation coupling in E. coli.
Fumio Kishida (岸田文雄)
Fumio Kishida (岸田文雄), born 1957, Japanese LDP politician, 100th prime minister 2021-2024, former foreign minister; known for the 2022 counterstrike security strategy, defense spending raised to 2% of GDP, and leaving office amid funding-scandal record-low approval.
Fumio Koyama
Fumio Koyama is a Japanese photonics researcher at the Institute of Science Tokyo known for the first continuous room-temperature operation of surface-emitting lasers, used in data centers and face recognition.
Fumio Sakiya
Fumio Sakiya (崎谷文雄), born 1945, is a Japanese entrepreneur who founded Rorze Corporation in Fukuyama, Japan, in 1985, a semiconductor automation equipment maker he led as president until 2015.
Fumitake Fujita
Fumitake Fujita (藤田文武) is a Japanese politician of the Japan Innovation Party, serving as its co-leader and as a House of Representatives member from Osaka's 12th district.
Fumitake Yoshida
Fumitake Yoshida (吉田文武, 1913–2007) was a Japanese chemical engineer and Kyoto University professor known for research on mass transfer, gas absorption, and bubble columns, and was elected to the US National Academy of Engineering.
Fumiya Takahashi (高橋文哉)
Fumiya Takahashi (高橋文哉), born 2001 in Saitama, Japan, is a Japanese actor who debuted starring as Aruto Hiden in Kamen Rider Zero-One (2019), the first Reiwa-era Kamen Rider, and won the 47th Japan Academy Prize New Actor Award for 交換ウソ日記; leads the live-action Blue Lock film.
Fumo Liyongo
Fumo Liyongo, also written Liongo Fumo, is a legendary Swahili poet-warrior of the coast of northern Kenya, remembered as the hero of the epic cycle of the Pate sultanate.
Fumonisin B1
Fumonisin B1 (FB1) is a mycotoxin produced by Fusarium molds, chiefly F. verticillioides, that contaminates maize worldwide and disrupts sphingolipid metabolism; it was isolated in 1988 in South Africa.
Fun
Fun: the pleasure and excitement of enjoyable activities, defined in research as positive emotion tied to an activity, with seven factors (safety, playfulness, novelty, autonomy, immersion, social connection, purpose) and power-law engagement scaling.
Fun (band)
fun. (stylized with a period) was an American indie pop band formed in New York in 2008 by Nate Ruess, Andrew Dost, and Jack Antonoff. Known for Some Nights (2012) and the six-week No. 1 hit "We Are Young," it won the 2013 Grammy for Best New Artist before going inactive around 2015.
Fun and Fancy Free
Fun and Fancy Free is Disney's 1947 package animated feature, ninth in the canon, combining Bongo and Mickey and the Beanstalk, hosted by Jiminy Cricket, Dinah Shore, and Edgar Bergen, released by RKO September 27, 1947.
Fun Boy Three
Fun Boy Three: English new wave pop trio formed in Coventry in 1981 by Terry Hall, Neville Staple, and Lynval Golding after leaving the Specials; two Chrysalis albums, seven UK Top 40 hits, active 1981-1983.
Fun City Park
Fun City Park, Aden theme park in Yemen's Crater district (Q2HW+74P), distinct from namesake Fun City parks in Sana'a, Melbourne, and the Gulf; open daily 15:30-23:00, phone +967 2 254 200, rated 3.9/5 from 764 reviews.