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Turów mine
The Turów mine is a large open-pit lignite mine at Bogatynia in Lower Silesia, Poland, near the Czech and German borders, supplying the adjacent Turów power station.
Turów power station
Turów power station (Elektrownia Turów) is a lignite-fired power plant in Bogatynia, southwestern Poland, with about 2,000 megawatts of capacity, owned by PGE and supplied by the adjacent open-pit mine.
Turpan
Turpan (吐鲁番, Turfan), a prefecture-level city in Xinjiang, China: China's hottest city in a basin 155 m below sea level, home of the ancient karez underground irrigation channels, Silk Road city of Khocho/Gaochang, and a major grape-growing oasis.
Turpan Depression (吐鲁番盆地)
Turpan Depression (吐鲁番盆地, Turfan Depression), a fault-bounded trough in Xinjiang, China, southeast of Ürümqi; lowest point in China at Aiding Lake, 154 m below sea level, with an extremely arid climate and the ancient karez irrigation system.
Turpan water system
The Turpan water system is a network of karez, underground gravity-fed channels carrying mountain groundwater to oasis fields in the Turpan Basin of Xinjiang, China, some at least 600 years old.
Turpentine
Turpentine (spirit of turpentine, oil of turpentine, CAS 8006-64-2) is a pine-resin distillate of terpenes used as a solvent and camphor/menthol feedstock; flammable, 100 ppm exposure limit, once a major naval store.
Turpin case
The Turpin case: 2018 Perris, California prosecution of David and Louise Turpin for torturing and starving their 13 children; guilty pleas, 25-years-to-life sentences, and the 2022 Larson Report on Riverside County's failed aftercare.
Turquoise
Turquoise is an opaque blue to green phosphate of copper and aluminum prized as a gemstone since about 5000 BC, mined earliest in Egypt and Persia.
Turquoise (color)
Turquoise (color): a blue-green color named after the turquoise gemstone, from French turqueise "Turkish stone"; color name attested 1853, CSS value #40E0D0, blue from copper and green from iron in the mineral.
Turret
A turret is a small tower forming part of a larger building, first a castle defense and later a decorative feature of Queen Anne houses.
Turret 25B (St Oswald's)
Turret 25B (St Oswald's), Hadrian's Wall turret 25b in wall mile 25, Northumberland; located by Hepple in 1930, re-excavated 1959, no surface remains, buried site west of St Oswald's Church.
Turret 36B (Housesteads)
Turret 36B at Housesteads was a Roman watchtower on Hadrian's Wall in Northumberland, England, demolished around AD 124 when Housesteads fort was built over it.
Turret 4B
Turret 4B, Hadrian's Wall turret 4b, is the never-found western turret of the pair off Milecastle 4 in Newcastle upon Tyne; Pleiades place 967060317 records it as a defensive tower with an uncertain estimated position.
Turret clock
A turret clock is a mechanical clock in a church or castle tower that announces the time publicly, by striking a bell or showing an external dial.
Turrialba
Turrialba (volcano), Costa Rica's second-highest volcano at 3,340 m, an active stratovolcano 10 km NE of Irazú near Cartago; dormant after 1864-66, it erupted ash from 2010 to 2022 and remains at OVSICORI-UNA Warning level.
Turridae (sensu lato) and its reclassification
Turridae sensu lato, the turrids, was a catch-all family of venomous Conoidea snails except Conus and Terebridae; molecular phylogenetics (Puillandre 2008, Bouchet 2011) split it into 13 to 16 monophyletic families, leaving a restricted Turridae s.s.
Turrilites
Turrilites, named by Lamarck in 1801, is an extinct genus of helically coiled heteromorph ammonites, with a tower-like shell, from the Cenomanian stage of the Cretaceous in Europe, Africa, and Asia.
Turris ad Algam
Turris ad Algam (Tvrris Adalgam), ancient Roman-era villa in Tripolitania, Libya, southeast of Tripoli on the inland route; on the Tabula Peutingeriana (6C3, Miller 898); identified with modern Tajoura; Pleiades 344524.
Turris Caesaris
Turris Caesaris (Turris Cesaris), a Roman road station on the via Traiana in Apulia between Barium and Egnatia, listed in the Antonine Itinerary and Peutinger Table, probably at Polignano a Mare, about 20 Roman miles from Bari.
Turris et Taberna
Turris et Taberna, a Late Antique Roman road station on the Greater Syrtis coast of Libya, recorded on the Tabula Peutingeriana 24 miles from Tagulis, probably near Matratin or As Sidr.
Turritella
Turritella (Lamarck, 1799) is a genus of marine turritellid gastropods with tall, turreted, many-whorled shells, type species Turbo terebra; abundant Early Cretaceous to Recent fossils used in biostratigraphy, and namesake of the misnamed Turritella agate.
Turritopsis dohrnii
Turritopsis dohrnii, the immortal jellyfish, a small hydrozoan medusa that reverses its life cycle to a polyp via transdifferentiation; distinguished from T. nutricula and T. rubra, with genome resources and quantified lab rejuvenation rates.
Turrón
Turrón (torró) is a Spanish Christmas nougat of toasted almonds, honey, sugar, and egg white. Hard Alicante and soft Jijona varieties have held EU PGI status since 1996; both are made in Jijona, Alicante, which produces about 60% of Spain's turrón.
Turrum
Turrum is an oil and gas field in the Gippsland Basin in Bass Strait, offshore Victoria, Australia, 42 kilometers from shore and developed through the Marlin B platform.
Tursa Tholus
Tursa Tholus, a 75-km-wide tholus (dome-shaped hill) on Venus at 35.4°S, 205.2°E; IAU-approved 1997 and named for the Italian goddess of terror.
Turşucuzâde Ahmed Muhtar Efendi
Turşucuzâde Ahmed Muhtar Efendi (died 1875) was an Ottoman scholar who served as şeyhülislam, the empire's chief mufti, from 1872 to 1874 under Sultan Abdülaziz.
Turtanu
The turtanu (Akkadian tartānu), a Hurrian loanword meaning deputy, was the commander-in-chief of the Assyrian army; by the 7th century BC the office was split between left and right commands.
Turtle
Turtle (order Testudines, Chelonia): shelled reptiles including tortoises and terrapins, 364 species in 14 families. Shell of carapace and plastron fused to ribs; origin ~255 Ma near archosaurs; over half of species Threatened on the IUCN Red List.
Turtle (submersible)
The Turtle, also known as Bushnell's Turtle, was a one-man military submersible built by David Bushnell in 1775, the first to attack an enemy warship.
Turtle (syntax)
Turtle, or Terse RDF Triple Language, is a compact, human-readable text syntax for writing RDF graphs, using abbreviations like prefixes; it became a W3C Recommendation in 2014.