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Sorbic acid
Sorbic acid is a naturally occurring six-carbon fatty acid used worldwide as an antimicrobial food preservative, known as E200 and applied mostly as its salt potassium sorbate.
Sorbinil
Sorbinil, a Pfizer aldose reductase inhibitor (hydantoin class) for diabetic complications; first ARI in clinical trials, failed efficacy in the Sorbinil Retinopathy Trial, withdrawn for hypersensitivity.
Sorbite
Sorbite, known in Chinese as 索氏体 and Japanese as ソルバイト, is a fine ferrite and cementite mixture in steel, formed either as very fine pearlite during cooling or by tempering martensite.
Sorbitol
Sorbitol, also called D-glucitol, is a sugar alcohol found in fruits and produced by hydrogenating glucose; about 60% as sweet as sugar, it serves as a sweetener, humectant, and feedstock for vitamin C synthesis.
Sorbo Necropolis - Regolini-Galassi tomb
Regolini-Galassi tomb, Sorbo necropolis, Cerveteri: intact Etruscan princely tomb found 22 April 1836 by Regolini and Galassi; gold pectoral, Parade Fibula, carts, and 'mi larthia' amphora now in the Vatican Museums.
Sorbonne University
Sorbonne Université, public Paris university created January 1, 2018 by merging Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV) and Pierre and Marie Curie (Paris VI); three faculties, over 53,000 students, QS #73 (2027), withdrew from THE rankings in 2026.
Sorbs
Sorbs (Serbski lud), a West Slavic ethnic minority of about 60,000 in Lusatia, eastern Germany; smallest Slavic group, speaking Upper and Lower Sorbian, concentrated in Saxony and Brandenburg.
Sorbus
Sorbus L. (rowans, whitebeams, service trees) is a Rosaceae genus of temperate Northern Hemisphere trees and shrubs; type species S. aucuparia, polyphyletic in the broad sense, split into several genera, with apomixis and polyploidy driving its many microspecies.
Sorbus aucuparia
Sorbus aucuparia, rowan or European mountain ash, is a Rosaceae tree native from Europe to Iran and East Asia, with white corymbs and orange-red berries, widely planted, least concern, fireblight-susceptible.
SORCE
SORCE (Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment) was a NASA satellite launched in 2003 that measured the Sun's total and spectral irradiance from orbit, improving the climate record before being turned off in 2020.
Sorcerer (film)
Sorcerer (1977) is William Friedkin's remake of Clouzot's The Wages of Fear, adapted from Georges Arnaud's novel, starring Roy Scheider, Bruno Cremer, Francisco Rabal, and Amidou hauling nitroglycerin; a costly 1977 flop later critically re-evaluated.
Sorcerous Stabber Orphen (魔術士オーフェン)
Sorcerous Stabber Orphen (魔術士オーフェン) is a dark fantasy light novel series by Yoshinobu Akita and Yuuya Kusaka, first published in 1994, with over 14 million copies and TV anime adaptations in 1998, 1999, and from 2020 by Studio DEEN.
Sorcery (goetia)
Goetia (γοητεία): Greek term for the sorcery of the goēs, a conjurer of the dead; later a label for demonic magic; since Waite and Crowley, the name of the Ars Goetia, first book of the Lemegeton cataloging 72 spirits with sigils.
Sorcery: Contested Realm
Sorcery: Contested Realm, a two-player fantasy trading card game by Erik Olofsson and Nickolas Reynolds (Erik's Curiosa), played on a 5x4 grid with four elements, Spellbook and Atlas decks, Alpha 2023 through Gothic 2025 and Frost Mage vs Lavamancer 2026.
Sorcha Cusack
Sorcha Cusack (born 1949, Dublin) is an Irish actress of the Cusack acting family, daughter of Cyril Cusack, known for Mrs McCarthy in Father Brown, Kate Wilson in Casualty, Jane Eyre, and Mum O'Neil in Snatch.
Sord M5
The Sord M5 is an 8-bit home computer sold by Japan's Sord Computer Corporation from November 1982, with software on ROM cartridges like a game console.
Sore throat
Pain in throat (sore throat, ICD-11 MD36.0; pharyngitis) is pain or scratchiness in the throat, usually viral, sometimes group A streptococcal, typically self-resolving within a week.
Sore: A Wife from the Future
Sore: A Wife from the Future (Sore: Istri dari Masa Depan) is a 2025 Indonesian romantic science fantasy film by Yandy Laurens, adapted from his 2017 web series, starring Sheila Dara Aisha and Dion Wiyoko, released 10 July 2025 and Indonesia's 98th Academy Awards entry.
Sorek Desalination Plant
The Sorek Desalination Plant is a seawater reverse-osmosis plant on Israel's Mediterranean coast near Tel Aviv, producing 624,000 m³ of drinking water daily, about 20% of Israel's municipal water demand.
Sorekara (それから)
Sorekara (それから, And Then) is Yoshimitsu Morita's 1985 Toei film adapting Natsume Soseki's 1909 novel, starring Yusaku Matsuda as Daisuke, who loves his friend Hiraoka's wife Michiyo in Meiji-era Tokyo; Kinema Junpo's 1985 number-one Japanese film.
Sorel-Tracy
Sorel-Tracy, Quebec city at the Saint Lawrence–Richelieu confluence, formed by the 2000 merger of Sorel and Tracy; one of Canada's oldest towns, with shipbuilding and metallurgy heritage, 35,165 people (2021), and the 103-island Lake Saint-Pierre archipelago.
Soren
Soren is the hard dance project of Los Angeles-based DJ and producer Bryce Sorensen, who in 2023 became the first American artist signed to Dirty Workz.
Søren Holth
Søren Holth (1863–1937) was a Norwegian ophthalmologist ranked among the foremost eye doctors of his time in Norway, known for new refraction methods and his iridencleisis operation for glaucoma.
Soren Johansen
Soren Johansen, also known as Søren Johansen, is a Danish econometrician who created the maximum-likelihood cointegration test, the standard tool for detecting long-run economic relationships.
Søren K. Moestrup
Søren K. Moestrup, also known as Søren Kragh Moestrup, is a professor at Aarhus University who identified CD163 as the hemoglobin scavenger receptor and won the 2013 Novo Nordisk Prize.
Søren Kierkegaard
Søren Aabye Kierkegaard (1813–1855), Danish philosopher-theologian of Copenhagen's golden age, called the father of existentialism; pseudonymous author of Either/Or, Fear and Trembling, and Concluding Unscientific Postscript, critic of Hegelian system-building.
Sören Pellmann
Sören Pellmann, born in 1977 in Leipzig, is a German politician of The Left who has co-chaired its Bundestag parliamentary group with Heidi Reichinnek since 2024, representing Leipzig II.
Søren Peter Lauritz Sørensen
Søren Peter Lauritz Sørensen was a Danish chemist who headed the Carlsberg Laboratory's chemical department from 1901 to 1938 and introduced the pH scale in 1909.
Søren Rasted
Søren Nystrøm Rasted, born 1969, Danish keyboardist, songwriter, and producer of Aqua, co-writer of Barbie Girl, over 33 million records sold; also Lazyboy and Hej Matematik; Aqua ended live performances in 2026.
Søren Thirup
Søren S. Thirup is a structural biologist and Associate Professor Emeritus at Aarhus University who, with T. Alwyn Jones, showed in 1986 that protein models can be built from known fragments.