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Sorikmarapi
Sorikmarapi (Sorik Marapi), 2,145 m stratovolcano in Mandailing Natal, North Sumatra, Indonesia; 600-m summit crater lake, sulfur deposits, phreatic eruptions 1829-1986, 2026 unrest, and a 240 MW geothermal project.
Sorin Babii
Sorin Babii, Romanian pistol shooter born 1963 in Arad; 1988 Seoul Olympic gold in 50 m free pistol (660, OR) and 1992 Barcelona bronze in air pistol; later coached Alin Moldoveanu.
Sorin Grindeanu
Sorin Grindeanu is a Romanian Social Democratic Party politician, President of the Chamber of Deputies since 2025 and party leader, who briefly served as Prime Minister in 2017.
Sorin Popa
Sorin Popa, born 1953 in Bucharest, Romania, is a Romanian-American mathematician and UCLA professor known for foundational tools in subfactor theory and for deformation-rigidity theory, winning the 2009 Ostrowski Prize.
Sorites paradox
Sorites paradox (paradox of the heap), from Greek soros, heap; attributed to Eubulides of Miletus. Chain reasoning over vague predicates like 'heap' concludes no grains make a heap; responses include epistemicism, supervaluationism, and degree theories.
Sorivudine
Sorivudine, also known as BV-araU or Bravavir, is an antiviral drug for herpes zoster that was withdrawn after fatal interactions with 5-fluorouracil chemotherapy in Japan in 1993.
Sørkapp
Sørkapp is the southern cape of Spitsbergen, standing on the island Sørkappøya off Sørkapp Land; it is also a Ramsar site and 1973 bird reserve.
Sørkapp Land
Sørkapp Land is the southernmost peninsula of Spitsbergen, Svalbard, Norway, about 1,300–1,400 km², joined to the rest of the island by a glacier isthmus that narrowed from 28 km (1899–1900) to about 5–6 km, possibly making it an island by 2030–2035; Sørkapp point lies on Sørkappøya at 76°28'N 16°36'E.
Sorley MacLean
Sorley MacLean (Somhairle MacGill-Eain, 1911–1996) was a Scottish Gaelic poet from Raasay, best known for 'An Cuillithionn' and 'Dàin do Eimhir', considered the greatest Gaelic poet of the twentieth century.
Sorn (singer)
Sorn (Chonnasorn Sajakul, ชลนสร), Thai pop singer; won K-Pop Star Hunt 2011, debuted in CLC under Cube Entertainment 2015, solo English-pop artist with WILD since 2021, EP HEARTSTORM 2024.
Soroban
The soroban (そろばん) is the Japanese abacus, a frame of vertical rods with one heaven bead and four earth beads per rod, derived from the Chinese suanpan.
Sorocaba
Sorocaba, São Paulo, Brazil; sorocabano; major interior industrial city, "Manchester Paulista", founded 1654; 723,682 census 2022, IDHM 0.798, seat of its metropolitan region.
Sorochinsko-Nikolskoye Oil Field
Sorochinsko-Nikolskoye Oil Field (Сорочинско-Никольское месторождение) is an onshore oil field in Orenburg Oblast, Russia, north of Sorochinsk, operated by Rosneft's Orenburgneft and producing commercially since 1967.
Sorokyns'kyi Rayon
Sorokyns'kyi Rayon (Сорокинський район), also Krasnodon Raion, was a district of Luhansk Oblast, Ukraine, centered on Krasnodon/Sorokyne; formed 1923, renamed 1936, abolished in the 2020 reform.
Soron
Soron (少論, 소론) was a political faction of late Joseon Korea, formed in 1680 when the younger Westerners split from the old-guard Noron over punishing the merit elites.
Soroosh Oil Field
The Soroosh Oil Field (Persian: میدان نفتی سروش, formerly named Cyrus) is an offshore oil field about 85 km southwest of Kharg Island in Iran's Bushehr province, holding heavy crude.
Soroosh Sorooshian
Soroosh Sorooshian is a hydrometeorologist, Distinguished Professor at UC Irvine and founding director of its Center for Hydrometeorology & Remote Sensing, known for the PERSIANN satellite rainfall system and the SCE-UA calibration algorithm.
Sorority Boys
Sorority Boys is a 2002 American comedy directed by Wallace Wolodarsky, in which three wrongly accused fraternity brothers dress as women and pledge a sorority to clear their names.
Sorority Row
Sorority Row (2009) is a Stewart Hendler slasher remake of The House on Sorority Row, starring Briana Evigan, Leah Pipes, and Rumer Willis; released by Summit on September 11, 2009, grossing $12.0M with 24% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Sororium Tigillum
Sororium Tigillum, the sister's beam (Tigillum Sororium), an ancient Roman wooden crossbar on two posts on the Oppius slope where Horatius passed in expiation for killing his sister, with altars of Juno Sororia and Janus Curiatius and rites on 1 October.
Soros
Soros (Greek σῶρος, mound; τάφος Ἀθηναίων) is the burial tumulus at Marathon, Attica, covering the cremated remains of the 192 Athenian dead of the 490 BC battle; 9 m high, 50 m across, excavated by Staes in 1890 to 1891.
Soros Fund Management
Soros Fund Management LLC is a New York-based family office and asset manager founded by George Soros in 1970, managing about $28 billion and serving the Open Society Foundations.
Sorovskoye oil field
Sorovskoye oil field (Соровское месторождение) is an onshore oil field in the Salym district of West Siberia, Russia, discovered by Yukos in 2002 and developed by Rosneft companies.
Sørøya
Sørøya (Sállan) is Norway's fourth-largest island, 812 km², in Hammerfest and Hasvik municipalities, Vest-Finnmark; largest island without mainland road link, known for its puffin colony, WWII partisan history, and sea fishing.
Sorption Detoxification
Sorption detoxification, or hemoperfusion (hemoadsorption), removes toxins by passing blood over charcoal, resin, or polymer adsorbents; used for poisoning, uremic toxins, liver failure, and sepsis, complementing rather than replacing dialysis.
Sorption-enhanced steam reforming
Sorption-enhanced steam reforming (SESR, or SE-SMR) is a process-intensified hydrogen production technology in which a solid sorbent captures CO2 as it forms, shifting equilibrium toward hydrogen purity above 95%.
Sorption-enhanced water-gas shift
Sorption-enhanced water-gas shift (SEWGS) is a pre-combustion carbon capture process developed by TNO that combines the water-gas shift reaction with CO2 adsorption on potassium-promoted hydrotalcite, demonstrated on blast furnace gas in Sweden.
Sorption–desorption measurement
A sorption–desorption measurement, also called adsorption–desorption, quantifies how much gas or vapor a solid takes up and releases, yielding adsorption isotherms and BET surface areas.
Sorptive extraction
Sorptive extraction is a solventless sample preparation technique in analytical chemistry that concentrates organic analytes into a polydimethylsiloxane sorbent, best known as stir bar sorptive extraction.
Sorrel
Sorrel, chiefly common sorrel (Rumex acetosa, garden sorrel), a sour-leaved perennial dock of Polygonaceae native to temperate Eurasia and NW Africa, used in sauces, salads, and herbal medicine; high in oxalic acid; distinct from wood sorrel (Oxalis) and roselle.