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Moksha (मोक्ष)
Moksha (मोक्ष), also vimukti or mukti, is liberation from the cycle of rebirth in Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism, and Sikhism; the fourth and ultimate puruṣārtha, attained by exhausting all karma, with school-specific forms such as kaivalya and nirvana.
Mokume-gane (木目金)
Mokume-gane (木目金) is a Japanese metalworking technique that bonds layers of different-colored metals into wood-grain patterns, developed about 400 years ago in the Edo period.
Mokusatsu (黙殺)
Mokusatsu (黙殺) is a Japanese term meaning to deliberately ignore or treat with silent contempt, known for Suzuki's 1945 Potsdam Declaration response and the disputed mistranslation story.
MOL Group
MOL Group is a Hungarian integrated oil and gas company headquartered in Budapest. Founded in 1991, it employs about 25,000 people in over 30 countries.
MOL Hungarian Oil
MOL Hungarian Oil and Gas Company Plc is a Hungarian multinational oil, gas, petrochemicals, and retail group founded in 1991, headquartered in Budapest, and operating in more than 30 countries.
Mol Refinery Százhalombatta
Mol Refinery Százhalombatta, known as the MOL Danube Refinery (Hungarian: Dunai Finomító), is an oil refinery in Százhalombatta, Hungary, owned by MOL Group and commissioned in 1965.
Mòl Sen Nikola
Mòl Sen Nikola (Mòlsennikola, French Môle Saint-Nicolas) is a commune in Haiti's Nord-Ouest department, chief town of its arrondissement; Columbus landed there 6 December 1492, and it has 37,029 residents (2024 est.).
Mola di Monte Gelato
Mola di Monte Gelato, a 19th-century watermill on the Treja river at Mazzano Romano near Rome, built by the Del Drago family over medieval structures, active until the 1960s, now a park museum; the name also denotes the Roman and early medieval settlement excavated 1986-90 by the British School at Rome.
Mola Ram
Mola Ram (मोला राम) was a painter and poet of the Garhwal kingdom who introduced the Kangra style into the Garhwal school and led its workshop until 1804.
Molad
Molad (מולד) was an influential Hebrew-language monthly of politics, literature, and criticism published in Jerusalem from 1948 to 1986, founded by essayist Ephraim Broido, who edited all its issues.
Moladah
Moladah (Hebrew מוֹלָדָה) is a biblical town of Judah's southern Negeb, listed in Joshua 15 and 19 and Nehemiah, traditionally identified with the excavated mound Tel Malhata near Arad.
Molality
Molality, symbol b, is a measure of concentration defined as moles of solute per kilogram of solvent, used mainly for colligative properties like freezing point depression.
Molar (tooth)
Molar, the multi-cusped posterior grinding tooth (third molar = wisdom tooth). Humans have 12 permanent molars, typically three-rooted with 4–5 cusps; first molars erupt at 6–7 years, third at 17–21, and are prime targets for fissure sealants.
Molar concentration
Molar concentration, formally called amount concentration or amount-of-substance concentration, is the amount of a constituent in moles divided by the volume of the mixture, commonly given in mol/L.
Molar conductivity
Molar conductivity (Λ) is an electrolyte solution's conductivity divided by its molar concentration, Λ = κ/c, expressing the conducting power contributed by one mole of electrolyte.
Molar mass
Molar mass, also called molar weight, is the mass of one mole of a substance, measured in g/mol and used to convert between mass and moles.
Molar pregnancy
Molar pregnancy (hydatidiform mole) is an abnormal conception where placental tissue grows into a noncancerous tumor; complete moles lack an embryo, partial moles have 69 chromosomes, and hCG follow-up guards against gestational trophoblastic neoplasia.
Molar volume
Molar volume is the volume occupied by one mole of a substance, defined as volume divided by amount of substance. For an ideal gas at 0 °C it is about 22.4 liters per mole.
Molarray (雅睿生物)
Molarray (雅睿生物) is a Chinese molecular diagnostics company founded in 2010 in Suzhou, best known for its real-time fluorescent quantitative PCR instruments, which held an estimated 18.98% share of China's domestic unit sales in 2020.
Molasse
Molasse, introduced by Bernhard Studer in 1825, is a geology term for the thick sandstone and conglomerate sediments that fill foreland basins beside rising mountain chains.
Molasses
Molasses (Portuguese melaço) is the thick dark syrup left after cane or beet sugar crystallization; grades run light, dark, and blackstrap from successive boilings, with 48-53% sugars, used in feed, fermentation, ethanol, rum, and baking.
Molcajete
Molcajete (Nahuatl molcaxitl): traditional Mexican three-legged volcanic-stone mortar used with a tejolote pestle to grind salsas and guacamole; must be cured with rice before use; cement replicas are unsafe.
Molchat Doma (Молчат дома)
Molchat Doma (Молчат дома, "Houses Are Silent") is a Belarusian post-punk trio formed 2017 in Minsk, now based in Los Angeles; Egor Shkutko, Roman Komogortsev, Pavel Kozlov. Viral via "Sudno" on TikTok; four albums on Sacred Bones.
Mold
Mold (mould): filamentous fungi forming hyphae and mycelium, reproducing by spores; not a taxonomic group. Covers indoor genera (Aspergillus, Penicillium), health effects, mycotoxins, food uses, and remediation guidance.
Mold Gold Cape
The Mold Gold Cape is a Bronze Age ceremonial cape of beaten sheet gold found near Mold, Wales, in 1833 and now held by the British Museum.
Mold health issues
Mold health issues: respiratory and allergic effects from indoor mold and dampness, including asthma exacerbation and development, cough, wheeze, and hypersensitivity pneumonitis; established by IOM 2004 and WHO 2009 reviews.
Mold mites
Mold mites are small pale mites, chiefly Tyrophagus species, that feed on mold in damp homes and stored foods, multiplying rapidly above 65% relative humidity.
Mold powder
Mold powder, also called mold flux or casting powder, is a granular flux melted on top of molten steel during continuous casting, lubricating the strand and controlling heat transfer.
Moldavia
Moldavia (Romanian: Moldova) was a southeastern European principality founded in the mid-14th century between the Carpathians and the Dniester, an Ottoman vassal from about 1456, ruled by Stephen the Great 1457–1504, and united with Wallachia in 1859 to form Romania.
Moldavian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
The Moldavian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, usually abbreviated MASSR, was an autonomous republic within the Ukrainian SSR on the left bank of the Dniester, existing from 1924 to 1940.