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Tunes of Glory

Tunes of Glory is a 1960 Ronald Neame drama adapted by James Kennaway from his 1956 novel, starring Alec Guinness as Jock Sinclair and John Mills as Basil Barrow in a peacetime Scottish regimental power struggle, Oscar-nominated for screenplay and York's film debut.

Tung H. Lin

Tung H. Lin, also known as Tung-Hua Lin, was a Chinese-born American engineer and UCLA professor known for micromechanical theories of plasticity and for designing China's first twin-engine airplane.

Tung Hua Lin

Tung Hua Lin (1911–2007) was a Chinese-born American engineer and UCLA professor known for designing China's first twin-engine airplane and for research on the safety of building materials.

Tung oil

Tung oil (桐油), also called China wood oil, is a drying oil pressed from tung tree seeds and used in paints, varnishes, and wood finishes.

Tung T Le

Tung T Le is a single-molecule biophysicist at Cornell University and an HHMI Research Specialist who studies DNA mechanics, including how etoposide traps DNA loops on topoisomerase II.

Tung Tung Tung Sahur

Tung Tung Tung Sahur (Triple T) is an AI-generated Italian brainrot meme character, a wooden kentongan drum figure with a bat, created by Indonesian TikTok user @noxaasht on 28 February 2025, later central to a US federal copyright lawsuit with Do Big Studios over Steal a Brainrot.

Tung Yo Fluctus

Tung Yo Fluctus is a 457.95-km lava flow field on Jupiter's moon Io at 17.32S, 356.51W, named in 1985 for a Chinese fire god; an energetic eruption at nearby Tung Yo Patera was first observed 28 May 2004 with Keck adaptive optics.

Tung‐Tien Sun

Tung-Tien Sun (孙同天) was a cell biologist at NYU School of Medicine who defined epithelial differentiation markers, located corneal and hair follicle stem cells, and discovered the uroplakins.

Tunga penetrans

Tunga penetrans, the chigoe or jigger sand flea, is a flea whose mated female burrows into host skin causing tungiasis. Found in Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa; treated with dimeticone oils.

Tungabhadra Dam (ತುಂಗಭದ್ರಾ ಅಣೆಕಟ್ಟು)

Tungabhadra Dam, also called Pampa Sagar, is a masonry gravity dam across the Tungabhadra River near Hospet, Karnataka, India, first impounded in 1953 as a joint irrigation project of Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh.

Tungabhadra Project

The Tungabhadra Project is a multipurpose inter-state dam and canal project on the Tungabhadra River near Hospet, Karnataka, built jointly by the former states of Madras and Hyderabad.

Tungabhadra River (ತುಂಗಭದ್ರಾ ನದಿ)

Tungabhadra River (ತುಂಗಭದ್ರಾ ನದಿ), also called the Tunga-Bhadra, is a 531 km Krishna tributary formed at Koodli, Karnataka, flowing past Hampi and impounded by the Tungabhadra Dam near Hospet.

Tungadrumadi Taila

Tungadrumadi Taila (Tuṅgadrumādi taila), a classical Ayurvedic medicated sesame-oil formulation listed in the Ayurvedic Formulary of India for Śirobhyaṅga; cooling herbs, milk, and coconut water; studied for insomnia and ADHD.

Tungevaag

Martin Tungevaag is a Norwegian DJ and record producer who broke through in 2014 with "Wicked Wonderland" and later formed the duo Tungevaag & Raaban.

Tunggul Ametung

Tunggul Ametung was the district head of Tumapel in eastern Java, a dependency of Kediri, killed by his guard Ken Arok, who founded the kingdom of Tumapel.

Tunghsiao power station

Tunghsiao power station, also known as the Tongxiao Power Plant (通霄发电厂), is a gas-fired power station in Tongxiao, Miaoli County, Taiwan, owned and operated by Taiwan Power Company.

Tungiasis

Tungiasis, or sand flea disease, is a parasitic skin disease caused by the female sand flea Tunga penetrans burrowing into the skin, usually the feet.

Tungnafellsjokull (volcano)

Tungnafellsjökull, a Pleistocene central stratovolcano in Iceland's central highlands NW of Vatnajökull, capped by a small ice cap; two calderas including Vonarskarð; no known Holocene eruptions.

Tungnath (तुंगनाथ)

Tungnath (तुंगनाथ) is a Hindu temple of Shiva in Uttarakhand, India, perched at about 3,680 m and regarded as the highest Shiva temple in the world.

Tungstate

Tungstate is the divalent anion WO₄²⁻, the fully deprotonated form of tungstic acid, and any salt containing it; its minerals scheelite and wolframite are the chief ores of tungsten metal.

Tungsten

Tungsten, also known as wolfram, is a hard, steel-gray transition metal with the highest melting point of any metal, 3414 °C, best known for tungsten carbide tools and light bulb filaments.

Tungsten bronzes

Tungsten bronzes are non-stoichiometric compounds of formula MxWO3, in which metal atoms enter the tungsten trioxide lattice; they are named for their bronze-like luster, not because they contain bronze.

Tungsten carbide

Tungsten carbide is an extremely hard compound of tungsten and carbon, best known as the hard phase of cemented carbide used in cutting and drilling tools.

Tungsten diselenide

Tungsten diselenide (WSe₂) is a layered two-dimensional semiconductor of tungsten and selenium whose monolayer has a direct bandgap, and which enables complementary logic, optoelectronics, and moiré superconductivity.

Tungsten disulfide

Tungsten disulfide (WS₂) is an inorganic compound of tungsten and sulfur that occurs as the rare mineral tungstenite and is used as a dry film lubricant.

Tungsten ditelluride

Tungsten ditelluride (WTe₂) is a layered transition-metal dichalcogenide semimetal, prominent in physics since 2014 for extremely large, non-saturating magnetoresistance and 2015 type-II Weyl semimetal predictions.

Tungsten divertor

A tungsten divertor is the bottom structure of a tokamak that exhausts heat and helium ash, its plasma-facing surface made of water-cooled tungsten, chosen for ITER.

Tungsten fill

Tungsten fill is the semiconductor manufacturing step that fills contact holes and vias with CVD-deposited tungsten, forming the industry's standard conductive plug since the late 1980s.

Tungsten fuzz

Tungsten fuzz is a porous nanostructure of thin tungsten nanotendrils that forms on hot tungsten under helium ion bombardment, studied as a degradation route for fusion device components.

Tungsten hexafluoride

Tungsten hexafluoride (WF6), also called wolfram hexafluoride, is a dense, colorless gas that boils at 17.1 °C and is the standard precursor for chemical vapor deposition of tungsten in semiconductor manufacturing.