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Barocaloric effect
The barocaloric effect is a reversible temperature or entropy change in a material caused by applying or removing hydrostatic pressure, one of the four caloric effects.
Barocaloric effect in plastic crystals
The barocaloric effect in plastic crystals is the large reversible entropy and temperature change produced when pressure drives a solid–solid transition, reaching values comparable to refrigerant R134a.
Barocaloric plastic crystals
Barocaloric plastic crystals are orientationally disordered molecular solids that change temperature under pressure through solid-solid order-disorder transitions, offering solid-state refrigeration without hydrofluorocarbon refrigerants like R134a.
Barochan Hill
Barochan Hill: Roman fort near Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland, also recorded as Coria. Flavian fort built c. AD 79-80 during Agricola's campaigns, occupied about a decade, scheduled monument SM3318.
Barocius (lunar crater)
Barocius is an 82.72 km lunar impact crater at 44.98° S, 16.81° E in the southern highlands, named in 1935 after the Italian mathematician Francesco Barozzi (Franciscus Barocius, 1537–1604), with lettered satellite craters B through L approved in 2006.
Baroclinic instability
Baroclinic instability is a fluid-dynamical instability of rotating, stratified flow that converts available potential energy from a horizontal temperature gradient into kinetic energy, and it is the primary cause of synoptic-scale midlatitude storms.
Baroda College
Baroda College, formally the Baroda College of Science, was a college in the princely state of Baroda, India, opened in 1881 under Maharaja Sayajirao Gaekwad III.
Baroda Residency
The Baroda Residency was the British political establishment at the court of the Gaekwad of Baroda, set up after the 1802 treaty with the East India Company.
Baroda school
The Baroda school is a movement in modern Indian art tied to the Faculty of Fine Arts at Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, known for narrative figuration.
Baroda State
Baroda State, a Maratha princely state in western India ruled by the Gaekwad dynasty from c. 1721, under British subsidiary alliance from 1802; reformed under Sayajirao III, merged into Bombay State on 1 May 1949.
Baroka
Baroka FC (Bakgaga), South African club from Ga-Mphahlele near Polokwane founded 2007 by Khurishi Mphahlele; 2015/16 NFD champions, 2017/18 Telkom Knockout winners, six Premiership seasons, now in ABC Motsepe League after 2026 relegation.
Barolo
Barolo: Piedmont's flagship DOCG red wine, made only from Nebbiolo in 11 Langhe communes near Alba; aged at least 38 months, famed as "the king of wines" and distinct from Barbaresco.
Barom Reachea I
Barom Reachea I was king of Cambodia from 1566 to 1576, ruling from Lovek. He succeeded Ang Chan I and led invasions of Ayutthaya in 1570 and 1575.
Barom Reachea IV
Barom Reachea IV, also known as Srei Soriyopor, was King of Cambodia from 1603 to 1618 who reunified the country and initiated a marriage alliance with Vietnam.
Barometer
A barometer, historically known as a weather glass, is an instrument that measures atmospheric pressure. Invented by Evangelista Torricelli in 1644, it underpins weather forecasting, aviation altimeters, and smartphone pressure sensors.
Barometric formula
The barometric formula, or barometric law, is the equation giving atmospheric pressure as a function of altitude, derived from hydrostatic balance and the ideal gas law.
Baron
Baron: lowest rank of the British peerage, below viscount; historically a term for nobles holding land directly from the king, central to Magna Carta 1215, equivalent to German Freiherr.
Baron Ambrosia
Baron Ambrosia is a fictional character created by filmmaker Justin Fornal. He stars in the BronxNet show Bronx Flavor, which ran for 34 episodes starting in 2008.
Baron Chanda
Baron Chanda is an Indian-born American biophysicist at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis who studies how voltage-gated and temperature-sensitive ion channels signal electrically.
Baron Corbin
Baron Corbin (Thomas Pestock, also Bishop Dyer) is an American wrestler and ex-NFL practice-squad lineman; WWE US Champion 2017 and 2026, 2019 King of the Ring, 2017 Money in the Bank, NXT and MLW tag champion.
Baron d'Holbach
Baron d'Holbach (Paul-Henri Thiry, 1723–1789), French Enlightenment philosopher of German origin, Paris salon host, Encyclopédie contributor, and author of the materialist, atheistic Système de la nature (1770).
Baron Danglars
Baron Danglars, a character in Alexandre Dumas's The Count of Monte Cristo (Le Comte de Monte-Cristo), is the Pharaon's purser who frames Edmond Dantès, rises to a wealthy Parisian banker and baron, and is financially ruined by the Count's revenge.
Baron Davis
Baron Davis (Baron Walter Louis Davis, born 1979, Los Angeles) is a former NBA point guard, 1999 No. 3 pick out of UCLA, two-time All-Star, and leader of the 2007 "We Believe" Warriors upset of Dallas, now an entrepreneur and producer.
Baron Gerard Jacob De Geer
Baron Gerard Jacob De Geer (1858–1943) was a Swedish geologist who founded varve chronology, counting annual clay layers to build a calendar for the last glaciation.
Baron Mordo
Baron Mordo (Karl Amadeus Mordo) is a Marvel Comics sorcerer and Doctor Strange's arch-nemesis, created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko in Strange Tales #111 (1963); a reworked version played by Chiwetel Ejiofor appears in the MCU films.
Baron Munchausen
Baron Munchausen, fictional tall-tale teller drawn from Karl Friedrich Hieronymus von Münchhausen (1720–1797), launched by Raspe's 1785 English book, fixed by Bürger's 1786 German version, and eponym of Munchausen syndrome.
Baron of Rio Branco
Baron of Rio Branco, born José Maria da Silva Paranhos Júnior, was a Brazilian diplomat who settled nearly all of Brazil's boundary disputes as foreign minister.
Baron Samedi
Baron Samedi (Bawon Samdi, Baron Saturday) is the head of the Gede lwa of the dead in Haitian Vodou, master of cemeteries and guide of souls, known for top-hat iconography, the Fèt Gede festival, and a misunderstood popular image.
Baron Strucker
Baron Wolfgang von Strucker (Baron Strucker), Marvel Comics villain, Supreme Hydra leader of Hydra and Nick Fury's nemesis; debuted in Sgt. Fury #5 (1964) by Lee and Kirby; MCU Age of Ultron character.
Baron Trump novels
The Baron Trump novels are two 1890s children's adventure books by Ingersoll Lockwood, following Baron Wilhelm Heinrich Sebastian Von Troomp and his dog Bulger; rediscovered in 2017, with rejected Trump prophecy claims.