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Mineralisation
Mineralisation (mineralization) is the conversion of material into or impregnation with inorganic minerals: ore concentration in geology, biomineralization in organisms, organic-matter breakdown in soils, and fossil replacement.
Mineralocorticoid
Mineralocorticoid: class of adrenal cortex corticosteroids, chiefly aldosterone, regulating sodium and potassium balance via the mineralocorticoid receptor; distinct from glucocorticoids like cortisol.
Mineralogical Society of America
The Mineralogical Society of America (MSA) is a United States scientific membership organization, founded in 1919, that advances mineralogy, crystallography, geochemistry, and petrology and publishes American Mineralogist.
Mineralogy
Mineralogy is the branch of Earth sciences concerned with the formation, properties, uses, and classification of minerals, the crystalline building blocks of rocks, spanning fields from crystallography to gemmology.
MineralRite Corporation
MineralRite Corporation is a Dallas, Texas-based development-stage mineral and mine management company focused on tailings and other above-ground mineral assets, trading as RITE on OTC Markets.
MineralTree
MineralTree is a Boston-based software company founded in 2010 that automates invoice processing and payments for middle-market businesses; Global Payments acquired it for $500 million in 2021.
Mineralys Therapeutics, Inc.
Mineralys Therapeutics, formerly Catalys SC1, Inc., is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company founded in Radnor, Pennsylvania in 2019 to develop lorundrostat for hypertension; it trades on Nasdaq as MLYS.
Mineriads
The Mineriads (Mineriadele) were a series of six violent interventions by Jiu Valley coal miners against anti-communist protesters, opposition parties, and the press in Bucharest, from January 1990 to February 1999.
Minerotrophic
Minerotrophic describes peatlands, especially fens, whose water and nutrients come partly from mineral soil or bedrock, unlike ombrotrophic bogs, which are fed only by precipitation.
Minerva
Minerva (Etruscan Menrva, archaic Menerva), major Roman goddess of handicrafts, wisdom, and strategic warfare, identified with Athena; Capitoline Triad member, artisans' patron, Quinquatrus festival, Sulis-Minerva syncretism.
Minerva (automobile)
Minerva was a Belgian luxury automobile marque produced in Antwerp from 1904 to 1934 by Minerva Motors, founded by Sylvain de Jong, known for its quiet Knight sleeve-valve engines.
Minerva McGonagall
Minerva McGonagall, Harry Potter's Transfiguration professor, Gryffindor Head, Deputy Headmistress and tabby-cat Animagus; born 4 October 1935 per Pottermore, later Hogwarts Headmistress, played by Maggie Smith.
Minerva obstetrics and gynecology
Minerva Obstetrics and Gynecology, formerly Minerva Ginecologica (1949-2020), is a bi-monthly Italian peer-reviewed journal of obstetrics and gynecology published by Edizioni Minerva Medica, Turin; ISSNs 2724-606X and 2724-6450.
MINERVA-II-1
MINERVA-II1 was a pair of small hopping rovers, Rover-1A and Rover-1B, deployed from Japan's Hayabusa2 spacecraft onto the asteroid Ryugu in 2018, performing the first mobile surface exploration of a small solar-system body.
MINERVA-II-2
MINERVA-II-2 was a small rover built by a Japanese university consortium and released from the spacecraft Hayabusa2 at the asteroid Ryugu, orbiting it after a boot anomaly prevented surface operation.
MinervaX
MinervaX ApS is a Danish biotechnology company, founded in 2010 based on Lund University research, developing a protein-based Group B Streptococcus vaccine for pregnant persons.
MINERνA (ν-A)
MINERvA (Main Injector Experiment for ν-A) is a particle physics experiment at Fermilab in Illinois that measures how neutrinos interact with atomic nuclei at few-GeV energies.
Mines in the Battle of Messines (1917)
The mines in the Battle of Messines were 19 explosive charges, nearly 440 tons total, dug by British Empire tunnellers and detonated under German lines on 7 June 1917.
Mines of Paris
Mines of Paris (Carrières de Paris): about 280 km of abandoned limestone and gypsum quarries under Paris, closed by the 1776 decree, overseen since 1777 by the IGC; one section became the Catacombs ossuary in 1786.
Mines of Rammelsberg, Historic Town of Goslar and Upper Harz Water Management System
Serial UNESCO World Heritage site in Lower Saxony, Germany (inscribed 1992, extended 2010): the Rammelsberg ore mine worked for about 1,000 years until 1988, Goslar's medieval old town, and the Upper Harz Water Management System with 107 ponds and 310 km of ditches.
Mines Paris – PSL
Mines Paris – PSL (École nationale supérieure des mines de Paris) is a French grande école of engineering founded in 1783 by Louis XVI, based in the Latin Quarter, a founding member of Université PSL with four campuses and 18 research centers.
Minesh P. Mehta
Minesh P. Mehta is a radiation oncologist and physician-scientist, deputy director and chief of radiation oncology at Baptist Health Miami Cancer Institute, and a brain tumor clinical trials leader.
Minestrone
Minestrone (minestróne) is a thick Italian vegetable soup with beans, pasta, or rice, an augmentative of minestra. No canonical recipe exists; Artusi published it in 1891, and versions include alla milanese and alla genovese.
Minesweeper
A minesweeper, or naval minesweeper, is a vessel that clears sea mines by dragging detection or destruction gear through the water, as distinct from a minehunter.
Minesweeper (video game)
Minesweeper: classic grid logic puzzle by Curt Johnson and Robert Donner (1989), shipped in Microsoft Entertainment Pack 1990 and bundled with Windows; 9x9/10, 16x16/40, 30x16/99 boards; NP-complete consistency problem.
Minet el-Beida
Minet el-Beida is a coastal bay site in Syria that served as the harbor of Late Bronze Age Ugarit, whose discovery in 1928 led to Ugarit's excavation.
MineWolf
The MineWolf is a family of armored, remote-controlled demining vehicles made by MineWolf Systems, with flail and tiller tools that destroy buried mines in humanitarian mine action.
MINFLUX
MINFLUX, short for minimal fluorescence photon fluxes, is a super-resolution microscopy technique developed by Stefan Hell's group in 2017 that locates single molecules with nanometer precision.
Ming (clam)
Ming, an ocean quahog clam, was dredged from off Iceland in 2006. Its age was determined to be 507 years, making it the oldest verified non-colonial animal.
Ming canal transport army (caojun)
The Ming canal transport army (caojun) was the military force that carried the Ming dynasty's tax grain north along the Grand Canal after sea transport was abolished.