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Nitrous oxide
Nitrous oxide, also known as laughing gas, is a colorless gas used as a dental anesthetic, a food propellant, and the third most important greenhouse gas.
Nitrous oxide emissions
Nitrous oxide emissions are the release of nitrous oxide, a long-lived greenhouse gas, from natural sources such as soils and the ocean and from human activities dominated by agriculture.
Nitrous oxide engine
A nitrous oxide engine, or nitrous oxide system, is an internal combustion engine fitted with nitrous oxide injection to increase power, first developed for aircraft in the 1940s.
Nitrous-oxide reductase
Nitrous-oxide reductase (NosZ, N2OR), the only known enzyme converting N2O to N2; periplasmic multicopper homodimer with CuA and CuZ centers, final denitrification step, clades I and II.
Nitrox
Nitrox, formally enriched air nitrox (EANx), is a scuba breathing gas with 22 to 40 percent oxygen; common blends EANx32 and EANx36 extend no-decompression limits at a shallower depth cap.
Nitroxazepine
Nitroxazepine (Sintamil) is an Indian tricyclic dibenzoxazepine antidepressant acting as a serotonin-norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor, developed by Hindustan Ciba-Geigy before 1972 and marketed in India since 1982.
Nitroxide-mediated polymerization
Nitroxide-mediated polymerization (NMP), also called nitroxide mediated radical polymerization, is a controlled radical polymerization in which stable nitroxide radicals reversibly cap growing chains, enabling well-defined polymers with low polydispersity.
Nitroxoline
Nitroxoline (8-hydroxy-5-nitroquinoline, 5-NOK) is an 8-hydroxyquinoline antibiotic used since 1962 for urinary tract infections in Germany and Eastern Europe; it chelates metals, acts as a zinc/copper metallophore, and is repurposed for amoebae, cancer, and NF1.
Nitroxyl
Nitroxyl (HNO), also called nitrosyl hydride or hydrogen oxonitrate, is a highly reactive, ephemeral molecule related to nitric oxide that exists only transiently in solution.
Nitta Yoshisada
Nitta Yoshisada (新田義貞, 1301–1338) was a Japanese warrior and head of the Nitta clan who destroyed the Kamakura shogunate in 1333 and later served the Southern Court.
Nitta Yoshishige
Nitta Yoshishige (新田義重, 1135–1202) was a Japanese warrior of the late Heian and early Kamakura periods who founded the Nitta-no-shō estate in Kōzuke Province and became ancestor of the Nitta clan, whose descendants included Nitta Yoshisada.
Nittany Lion
Nittany Lion, Penn State's mountain lion mascot named for Mount Nittany. Created by Harrison "Joe" Mason April 20, 1904 against Princeton's tiger; official nickname 1907; one student at a time portrays it; shrine by Warneke, 1942.
Nitto Denko
Nitto Denko Corporation (日東電工株式会社) is a Japanese functional materials manufacturer headquartered in Osaka. Founded in 1918, it makes adhesive tapes, optical films, separation membranes, and semiconductor process materials.
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, also billed as the Dirt Band and the Toot Uncommons, is an American country-folk-rock band formed in Long Beach, California, in 1966, known for "Mr. Bojangles".
Nityabodaghana
Nityabodaghana, also written Nityabodhaghana, is the third Jagadguru of the Sringeri Sharada Peetham, traditionally in office from 834 to 848 CE between Sureshwaracharya and Jnanaghana.
Nityanand Rai
Nityanand Rai, born 1966, is an Indian BJP politician serving as Union Minister of State for Home Affairs and representing Ujiarpur, Bihar, in the Lok Sabha since 2014.
Nityananda
Nityananda (নিত্যানন্দ), also called Nityananda Prabhu, was a 16th-century Bengali religious teacher and the principal associate of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, leading the Gaudiya Vaishnava mission in Bengal.
Nityananda Gond
Nityananda Gond is an Indian Bharatiya Janata Party politician and cabinet minister in Odisha, holding the School and Mass Education, ST & SC Development, and welfare portfolios.
Nityananda Rasa
Nityananda Rasa (Nityanand Rasa) is a classical Ayurvedic herbo-metallic tablet containing mercury, arsenic, sulphur, and other metals, used for gout, obesity, hypothyroidism, and elephantiasis; a 2023 90-day rat toxicity study found it safe at low therapeutic doses but toxic at high doses.
Nitza I. Q. Alejandro
Nitza I. Q. Alejandro, born Nitza Ileana Quiñones Alejandro, is an American judge on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
Nitzan Rosenfeld
Nitzan Rosenfeld is a cancer researcher known for developing liquid biopsy methods that detect circulating tumor DNA in blood plasma. He directs the Barts Cancer Institute in London and co-founded Inivata.
Nitzan Shabek
Nitzan Shabek is a structural plant biologist and Associate Professor of Plant Biology at UC Davis, known for structural work on strigolactone hormone signaling and ubiquitin ligases.
Nitzer Ebb
Nitzer Ebb is an English electronic body music group formed in 1982 in Chelmsford, Essex, by Douglas McCarthy and Bon Harris, best known for the single "Join in the Chant".
Niu Fu
Niu Fu (牛辅) was a general of the late Eastern Han dynasty, son-in-law of the warlord Dong Zhuo, whose death after Dong Zhuo's murder led to the sack of Chang'an.
Niu Gao
Niu Gao (牛皋, 1087–1147) was a Song dynasty general who rose from local archer to commander under Yue Fei, fought the Jin, and died of poisoning.
Niu Gensheng
Niu Gensheng (牛根生), born 1958, is a Chinese dairy entrepreneur who founded Mengniu Dairy in 1999, built it into China's largest dairy company, and donated his stake to charity.
Niu Hong
Niu Hong (牛弘), courtesy name Liren, was a Sui-dynasty statesman and ritual scholar (545–610) who served Emperors Wen and Yang as Director of the Imperial Library and other ministers.
Niu Lai (牛来)
Niu Lai (牛来), also translated The Cow Is Coming, is a 2026 Chinese animated film made over five years by mother and son Xin Yumeng and Sun Lifan on SketchUp. Flopping at first, it became a viral hate-watching box-office hit, grossing over 59 million yuan.
Niu Sengru
Niu Sengru (牛僧孺, courtesy name Sian, 780–848) was a Tang dynasty statesman and chancellor under three emperors, known for strict legality and frontier decisions opposed to Li Deyu.
Niu Xianke
Niu Xianke (牛仙客, 675–742) was a Tang dynasty official who rose from county clerk to military governor of Hexi and Shuofang, then chancellor under Emperor Xuanzong.