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Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind
Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind, developed by Dominion Energy, is a 2.6-gigawatt wind farm under construction about 27 miles off Virginia Beach, the largest offshore wind project in the United States.
Coaster brake
A coaster brake, also called a back-pedal brake or foot brake, is a bicycle rear-hub brake applied by pedaling backward, standard equipment on American-made bicycles within a decade of its 1898 invention.
Coated paper
Coated paper is paper or paperboard covered with a mineral pigment layer that gives a smoother, more ink-receptive surface, used for magazines, catalogs, and brochures.
Coating
A coating is a layer of material applied to a surface for decoration or protection, covering paints, varnishes, lacquers, primers, and sealers, and applied by spraying, brushing, rolling, or dipping.
Coaxial cable
Coaxial cable, or coax, is a transmission line with an inner wire surrounded by an outer shield, carrying radio signals for antennas, TV, and cable internet.
Coaxial electrospinning
Coaxial electrospinning is a modified form of electrospinning that extrudes two polymer liquids through concentric needles, drawn by an electric field into core–sheath nanofibers used for drug delivery.
Coaxial power connector
A coaxial power connector, also known as a barrel connector or barrel jack, is a cylindrical two-conductor connector used to supply direct current from a power adapter.
Cob (material)
Cob is an earthen building material of clay-rich subsoil, sand, straw, and water, stacked wet into monolithic walls without formwork, used for thousands of years.
Cobalt bomb
A cobalt bomb is a hypothetical salted nuclear weapon, a hydrogen bomb jacketed in cobalt to maximize long-lived fallout, first described by Leo Szilard in 1950.
Cobalt molybdate catalyst
A cobalt molybdate catalyst, usually called a CoMo catalyst, is an alumina-supported catalyst used with hydrogen in refineries to remove sulfur from gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel feedstocks.
Cobalt Robotics
Cobalt Robotics, now Cobalt AI, is an American security technology company founded in 2016 that deploys autonomous indoor patrol robots with AI monitoring and remote human specialists.
Cobalt-free cathode
A cobalt-free cathode is a lithium-ion battery positive electrode with no cobalt, replacing cobalt-bearing NMC and NCA chemistries to cut cost, toxicity, and supply-chain risk.
Cobalt-free LNMO spinel cathode
The cobalt-free LNMO spinel cathode, LiNi0.5Mn1.5O4, is a lithium-ion battery cathode that discharges at 4.7 V for high energy density, using manganese and nickel instead of cobalt.
Cobblestone
A cobblestone is a naturally rounded stone, 64 to 256 mm across in geological terms, formerly used in paving streets and roads and valued for durability.
COBE
COBE, or Cosmic Background Explorer, was a NASA satellite launched in 1989 to measure the cosmic microwave background, producing results that earned the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Cobia / Tuna Oil and Gas Field
Cobia and Tuna are adjacent oil and gas fields in the Gippsland Basin, Bass Strait, off Victoria, Australia, discovered in 1972 and 1968 and developed by the Esso/BHP joint venture.
COBIT
COBIT (Control Objectives for Information and Related Technologies) is a framework created by ISACA for the governance and management of enterprise information and technology, first published in 1996.
COBOL
COBOL, or Common Business Oriented Language, is a programming language created in 1959 by CODASYL for business data processing, still widely used in banking, government, and enterprise systems.
Cobra maneuver
The Cobra maneuver, also known as Pugachev's Cobra, is an aerobatic maneuver in which a fighter jet pitches its nose up past 90 degrees, made famous in 1989.
Coca Codo Sinclair Dam
Coca Codo Sinclair is a 1,500 MW run-of-river hydroelectric plant on the Coca River in Ecuador, inaugurated in 2016 as the country's largest power station.
Coca-Cola
Coca-Cola is a carbonated soft drink created in Atlanta in 1886 by pharmacist John Pemberton, whose concentrate is sold to franchised bottlers worldwide, its flavor formula a trade secret.
Coca-Cola FEMSA
Coca-Cola FEMSA is a Mexican beverage company, a subsidiary of FEMSA and the world's largest Coca-Cola System bottler by sales volume, serving more than 276 million consumers daily.
Cochabamba Water War
The Cochabamba Water War (Guerra del Agua), also called the Bolivian Water War, was a series of protests in Cochabamba, Bolivia, against water privatization and rate increases.
Cochin International Airport (കൊച്ചി അന്താരാഷ്ട്ര വിമാനത്താവളം)
Cochin International Airport, also known as Nedumbassery Airport, is an international airport serving Kochi in Kerala, India, opened in 1999 and the world's first fully solar-powered airport since 2015.
Cochin Pipeline (Keyera)
The Cochin Pipeline is a 1,900-mile, 12-inch pipeline from Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta, to Windsor, Ontario, built in 1977–1978 to carry propane, ethane, ethylene, and butane, and reversed in 2014 to carry condensate west.
Cochin Shipyard
Cochin Shipyard Limited is a Government of India-owned shipbuilding and ship repair company in Kochi, Kerala, established in 1972. It built INS Vikrant, the largest warship ever built in India.
Cockpit
A cockpit is the compartment of an aircraft, and some spacecraft, housing the pilot and flight controls; in larger transports it is called the flight deck.
CockroachDB
CockroachDB is a distributed SQL database developed by Cockroach Labs since 2015, replicating data across clusters so it tolerates machine and datacenter failures, with a PostgreSQL-compatible SQL interface.
Cockshutt Plow Company
The Cockshutt Plow Company was a Canadian agricultural implement manufacturer in Brantford, Ontario, founded in 1877, which launched Canada's first modern production tractor in 1946.
Coco (website)
Coco, also known as Coco Chat or Cocoland, was a French-language chat website created by Isaac Steidl in 2003 and closed by French authorities in June 2024.