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Potato chips
Potato chips, or crisps, thin fried or baked potato slices popularized as Saratoga chips from 1853; low-sugar varieties like Atlantic, acrylamide mitigation, and US per capita use of 18.1 lb distinguish the snack.
Potato cyst nematode
Potato cyst nematode (PCN), Globodera rostochiensis (golden) and G. pallida (pale), Andean-origin cyst-forming root parasites of potato; cysts hold 300-500 eggs and survive 30 years, causing 9-90% yield losses and quarantine regulation worldwide.
Potato fiber
Potato fiber, also called potato dietary fiber or potato pulp fiber, is a cell-wall dietary fiber ingredient from potato processing byproducts, about 55% insoluble cellulose and 45% soluble pectin, used for water binding in bakery and meat products; FDA GRAS as GRN 310.
Potato leafroll virus
Potato leafroll virus (PLRV) is a plant virus in the genus Polerovirus that causes leafroll disease in potatoes, spread by aphids and infected seed tubers worldwide.
Potato pancake
Potato pancake: a thin flat fried cake of potato, flour, and egg, known as latkes, Kartoffelpuffer, draniki, placki ziemniaczane, boxty, and gamjajeon; grated or mashed potato base, spread across Central and Eastern Europe after the potato's 19th-century adoption.
Potato paradox
The potato paradox is a veridical mathematical puzzle: potatoes at 99% water dried to 98% weigh 50 kg, half the original 100 kg, not the intuitive 99.
Potato protein
Potato protein, or potato protein isolate, is a plant protein recovered from potato fruit juice and starch wastewater, composed of patatin and protease inhibitors, with egg-like amino acid quality, DIAAS above 100, low allergenicity, and FDA GRAS status (GRN 86, GRN 447).
Potato salad
Potato salad (Kartoffelsalat) is boiled potatoes with a dressing, from German vinegar, broth, or mayo versions to American mayonnaise salad; oldest known recipe is Austrian, 1621.
Potato spindle tuber viroid
Potato spindle tuber viroid (PSTVd), first viroid, discovered by Theodor O. Diener in 1971; a 359-nucleotide circular RNA without protein coat causing spindle tuber disease of potato.
Potato starch
Potato starch, starch extracted from Solanum tuberosum tubers; third-largest starch after maize and wheat. Raw form is type II resistant starch (B-type polymorph); used in food, paper, textiles, pharma.
Potato virus X
Potato virus X (PVX), type member of the Potexvirus genus, Alphaflexiviridae: a 6.4 kb positive-sense RNA potato virus with no insect vector, spread by contact and seed tubers, Andean origin, damaging mainly in mixed infections with potato virus Y.
Potato virus Y
Potato virus Y (PVY), type species of genus Potyvirus, is an aphid-transmitted potyvirus of potato, tobacco, and pepper, with strains O, N, C, Z, E and necrotic recombinants like PVY-NTN causing major crop losses.
Potatoes
Potatoes (감자, Gamja) is a 1925 short story by the Korean writer Kim Dong-in, tracing Bok-nyeo's twenty-one-year decline from tenant farming into begging and prostitution in a Pyongyang slum.
Potawatomi
Potawatomi (Bodéwadmi, Keepers of the Fire): Great Lakes Anishinaabe people with the Ojibwe and Odawa; removed in the 1838 Trail of Death; today 12 nations in the US and Canada, including the 38,000-member Citizen Potawatomi Nation.
Potawatomi oral literature
Potawatomi oral literature is the spoken tradition of the Potawatomi of the Great Lakes, encompassing creation narratives, trickster tales told only in winter, and community histories.
Potcake dog
Potcake dog, the mixed-breed island dog of the Turks and Caicos and Bahamas, named for pot scrapings fed to dogs; 40-65 lb, 10-12 year lifespan, not AKC-recognized, affected by the 2024 CDC six-month puppy import rule.
Potchefstroom
Potchefstroom, a city in South Africa's North West Province on the Mooi River, founded by Voortrekker leader Andries Potgieter, proclaimed 22 December 1838, first Transvaal capital, now a North-West University town.
Pote Sarasin
Pote Sarasin (Thai: พจน์ สารสิน, 1905–2000) was a Thai diplomat who served as Foreign Minister, was appointed prime minister after Sarit Thanarat's 1957 coup, and became SEATO's first Secretary-General.
Potemkin mutiny
The Potemkin mutiny (Восстание на броненосце «Потёмкин») was a June 1905 sailors' revolt on the Russian battleship Knyaz Potemkin-Tavrichesky, which spread to Odessa and ended at Constanța, Romania.
Potemkin village
Potemkin village: an impressive facade hiding an undesirable condition, from the legend of fake villages built for Catherine the Great's 1787 Crimea tour; historians treat the story as a myth.
Potentia (Italy)
Potentia (Italy): Roman colony of citizens founded 184 BC (Livy XXXIX, 44, 10) near the Potenza river mouth at Porto Recanati, Marche; maritime colony in regio V, about 23 ha, with forum, Jupiter temple, theater, necropolis; abandoned by the 6th century.
Potential (Sombr song)
"Potential" is a 2026 disco-tinged breakup single by American singer-songwriter sombr (Shane Boose), released April 16, 2026 on Warner Records, produced with Tony Berg, debuted at Coachella, peaking at number 61 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Potential energy
Potential energy is stored energy that depends on the position or configuration of a system, like a raised weight or stretched spring; the term was coined by Rankine in 1853.
Potential energy surface
A potential energy surface (PES), also called an energy landscape, plots potential energy against molecular geometry, and its minima and saddle points describe stable structures and transition states.
Potential enlargement of the European Union
Potential enlargement of the European Union: how the EU admits new members under the Copenhagen criteria and Article 49; nine candidates plus Kosovo, the July 2026 accession conferences, target dates, and budget and reform debates.
Potential evapotranspiration
Potential evapotranspiration (PET) is the maximum quantity of water a well-watered vegetation cover can lose as vapor in a given climate, combining soil evaporation and plant transpiration.
Potential flow
Potential flow, also called ideal flow, is a model of inviscid, incompressible, irrotational fluid motion where velocity comes from a scalar potential satisfying Laplace's equation; it predicts zero drag in two dimensions.
Potential flow around a circular cylinder
The potential flow around a circular cylinder is the classical inviscid, irrotational solution for uniform flow past a cylinder, obtained by superposing a uniform flow and a doublet.
Potential induced degradation
Potential induced degradation (PID) is a loss of photovoltaic module power caused by leakage currents that move sodium ions from the glass into the solar cells.
Potential London NFL franchise
Potential London NFL franchise: proposed expansion or relocation team for London, England. NFL has played regular-season games there since 2007 (45 games, most of any city); Jaguars play annual London home games; Goodell says an overseas team is inevitable, but no franchise exists as of 2026.