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Silo
A silo, also called a grain silo, is a structure for storing bulk materials such as grain, silage, cement, and sand, in agriculture and industry.
Silo (series)
Silo is an American post-apocalyptic science fiction series on Apple TV+, created by Graham Yost and directed by Morten Tyldum, featuring Rebecca Ferguson in a mile-deep underground silo.
Silo (TV series)
Silo is an Apple TV+ dystopian sci-fi drama created by Graham Yost, based on Hugh Howey's Wool trilogy, starring Rebecca Ferguson as engineer Juliette Nichols in a 144-story underground silo; it ran 2023-2026 with a final season due July 9, 2027.
Siloam Inscription
The Siloam Inscription, also called the Siloam tunnel inscription or Shiloah Inscription, is a six-line Hebrew inscription in Hezekiah's Tunnel, Jerusalem, commemorating the tunnel's completion around 700 BC and now held in Istanbul.
Siloam tunnel
The Siloam tunnel, also called Hezekiah's tunnel, is a 533-meter rock-cut water tunnel in ancient Jerusalem, connecting the Gihon Spring to the Pool of Siloam.
Silodosin
Silodosin (Urief, Rapaflo, Silodyx) is a selective alpha-1A adrenergic receptor antagonist approved for BPH/LUTS, launched in Japan 2006 and FDA-approved 2008; main side effect is abnormal ejaculation, and it outperforms tamsulosin for ureteral stone expulsion.
Silog
Silog is a class of Filipino breakfast plates of sinangag (garlic fried rice) and itlog (egg) plus a named protein, such as tapsilog (beef tapa), longsilog (longganisa), tocilog, or bangsilog; coined in the 1980s around Vivian Del Rosario's tapsilog.
Silos (Starset album)
SILOS is the fifth studio album by Starset, released September 12, 2025 on Fearless Records: 16 tracks, about 57 minutes, built from eight 2024–2025 singles and two covers, originally conceived as an EP.
Silovik
Silovik (силови́к; plural siloviki, "people of force"): a current or former Russian security, military, or law-enforcement official in politics or business; under Putin they dominate the state, an estimated 77 percent of government in 2019.
Siloxane
A siloxane is a compound containing a chain or ring of alternating silicon and oxygen atoms with organic substituents on silicon; polymerized siloxanes are the silicones.
Siloxane removal
Siloxane removal is the elimination of volatile methyl siloxanes from biogas, landfill gas, and digester gas before burning, since combustion forms abrasive silicon dioxide that damages engines.
Silpa Bhirasri
Silpa Bhirasri (ศิลป์ พีระศรี), born Corrado Feroci, was an Italian-born sculptor who served Thailand from 1924, founded Silpakorn University, and created Bangkok's Democracy and Victory Monuments.
Silphium
Silphium (Greek σίλφιον), also called laser, was a spice-and-medicine umbellifer of ancient Cyrenaica, Libya, first recorded human-driven extinction. Candidates include Ferula drudeana; contraceptive claims are contested.
Silpium Mons
Silpium Mons is a 114.5-km-wide mountain on Jupiter's volcanic moon Io, centered at 52.6°S, 272.4°W, IAU-approved in 1979 and named for the Greek legendary place where Io dies of grief.
Silsila (1981 film)
Silsila (सिलसिला, The Affair) is Yash Chopra's 1981 Yash Raj Films Hindi romantic drama about an extra-marital affair, starring Amitabh Bachchan, Jaya Bachchan, Rekha, Shashi Kapoor, and Sanjeev Kumar, with music by Shiv-Hari; a box-office disappointment now considered a landmark casting.
Silsila Badalte Rishton Ka (सिलसिला बदलते रिश्तों का)
Silsila Badalte Rishton Ka (सिलसिला बदलते रिश्तों का), a Colors TV Hindi drama (2018–2019) by Sphere Origins, stars Drashti Dhami, Shakti Arora, and Aditi Sharma in a love-triangle story about an extra-marital affair; season 2 moved to Voot.
Silt
Silt is granular material with particle sizes between sand and clay, typically 0.004 to 0.0625 mm in the Wentworth scale, forming fertile silt loams and wind-deposited loess such as China's Loess Plateau.
Siltartoxatug
Siltartoxatug (TNM002, Sintetol, 新替妥) is the first recombinant human IgG1 monoclonal antibody against tetanus toxin, approved in China in February 2025 for emergency tetanus prophylaxis in adults, outperforming HTIG in phase 3 trials.
Silthiofam
Silthiofam (MON65500, Latitude) is a silylamide (FRAC C7) fungicide seed treatment specific to the wheat take-all fungus Gaeumannomyces graminis var. tritici; EU-approved 2018-2033 under Regulation 2018/710.
Siltronic
Siltronic AG is a German manufacturer of silicon wafers, the hyperpure crystalline discs on which memory chips, microprocessors, and power semiconductors are built, with production in Asia, Germany, and the United States.
Siltstone
Siltstone is a clastic sedimentary rock made predominantly of silt-sized grains, defined by the USGS as indurated silt with the texture of shale but lacking its fine lamination or fissility, and finer than sandstone.
Siltuximab
Siltuximab (SYLVANT, CNTO 328) is a chimeric anti-IL-6 monoclonal antibody approved in 2014 for HIV-negative, HHV-8-negative multicentric Castleman disease, dosed 11 mg/kg IV every 3 weeks.
Silukkuvarupatti Singam (சிலுக்குவாருபட்டி சிங்கம்)
Silukkuvarupatti Singam (சிலுக்குவார்பட்டி சிங்கம்), 2018 Tamil action comedy directed by Chella Ayyavu, produced by and starring Vishnu Vishal with Regina Cassandra; a timid constable unknowingly arrests gangster Cycle Shankar, released 21 December 2018.
Silurian
The Silurian is a geologic period of the Paleozoic Era between the Ordovician and Devonian, established by Roderick Murchison in the 1830s from Welsh rocks.
Silurian and Devonian reef ecosystems
Silurian and Devonian reef ecosystems were reefs built by tabulate and rugose corals with stromatoporoid sponges, flourishing in tropical shallow seas from about 460 to 359 million years ago.
Silurian bivalves
Silurian bivalves are the fossil clams of the Silurian period, a cosmopolitan group that recovered after the end-Ordovician extinction yet stayed subordinate to brachiopods in abundance.
Silurian hypothesis
The Silurian hypothesis is a 2018 thought experiment by Gavin Schmidt and Adam Frank asking whether a prehuman industrial civilization would leave traces detectable today in the geological record.
Silurian-Devonian Terrestrial Revolution
The Silurian-Devonian Terrestrial Revolution was the mid-Palaeozoic radiation of vascular land plants, roughly 425-360 Ma, that built the land biosphere and drew arachnids, myriapods, hexapods, and tetrapods ashore, reshaping soils, weathering, and climate.
Siluridae
Siluridae, the sheatfishes, is a Eurasian family of catfishes (Rafinesque, 1815) with 12 genera and 108 species, defined by a long anal fin of 41-110 rays, no adipose fin, and the wels catfish Silurus glanis.
Silurus
Silurus (Linnaeus 1758) is a genus of about 18 Eurasian sheatfish catfishes (Siluridae), including the wels catfish S. glanis, up to 5 m and 330 kg, and the Amur catfish S. asotus; distinguished by XX/XY sex determination via amhr2y and an origin near China and Korea about 37.6 Ma.