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Allison Jones Allison Jones is a popular casting director who is credited for helping to bring togethr realistic ensemble casts for such television shows as Freaks and Geeks (for which she won an Emmy), Undeclared and the US version of The Office as well as film such as The 40-Year-Old Virgin. She has been working as a casting director in entertainment since 1982 with her first credited work for the show Family Ties.
Allison Keith Allison Keith is an actor and voice actor who is best-known for her English-dubbing work with ADV Films on such anime movies and television series as Neon Genesis Evangelion, in which she voiced the character Misato Katsuragi. Keith was introduced to voice acting by Amanda Winn Lee.
Allison Kolb Allison Ray Kolb (November 1, 1915 -- December 23, 1973) was the Democratic auditor of Louisiana from 1952-1956, who angered many local officials in the pursuit of his job duties and was hence defeated by former Lieutenant Governor William J. "Bill" Dodd in the 1956 party primary.
Allison Krause Allison Krause (April 23, 1951 - May 4, 1970) was a student at Kent State University, Ohio when she was shot and killed by the Ohio National Guard in the Kent State shootings, while protesting the Vietnam war. The Guardsmen opened fire on a group of unarmed students, killing four of them, at an average distance of about 345 feet.
Allison Lee Quets Allison Lee Quets is the American birth-mother of twins Tyler Lee and Holly Ann. She was thrust into the international spotlight in late December of 2006 when she fled to Canada with the twins during a legal visitation with them.
Allison Miller Allison Miller is a character actor, born in Rome, Italy, who grew up in Lexington, Kentucky; State College, Pennsylvania and Tallahassee, Florida where she attended Leon High School and graduated from The Maclay School and attended the University of Florida in Gainesville. Allison got her acting start at Tallahassee's Young Actors Theatre.
Allison Moorer Allison Moorer (born June 21 1972) is an American alternative country singer and the younger sister of Shelby Lynne. Moorer, who is married to singer/songwriter Steve Earle, was nominated for an Academy Award for the song "A Soft Place to Fall," which appeared in The Horse Whisperer.
Allison Sarofim New York fixture Allison Sarofim is a former power-restaurateur and renowned patron of the arts. After extensive training, Allison made her feature debut in Disney’s worldwide blockbuster “The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe.
Allison Transmission Allison Transmission is a manufacturer of automatic transmissions for medium and heavy-duty commercial vehicle applications. Currently operated as a subsidiary of General Motors (Powertrain Division), the company's headquarters are located in Indianapolis, Indiana.
Allison V-1710 The Allison V-1710 aircraft engine was the only indigenous US-developed V-12 liquid-cooled engine to see service during WWII. A sturdy and trustworthy design, it was at first overlooked for a number of applications due to supercharger problems.
Allison V730 The Allison V730 transmission is a three-speed automatic transmission used in several makes of transit bus including the RTS, Canadian-produced GM New Looks, and Grumman Flxibles. Later production buses in the GM and Flxible line had the Allison V731 transmission, which is essentially the same unit but controlled electronically, with a keypad replacing the familiar shifter-lever in the driver's compartment.
Allister Brimble Allister Brimble (born in 1970) is a video game music composer. He wrote music during the 1990s for games, such as Superfrog, Alien Breed, Colonization and the Dizzy series, on the Amiga and other home computers.
Allister Hogg Allister Hogg (born 20 January 1983, in Stirling, Scotland) plays rugby union at either flanker or number eight for Edinburgh Gunners and Scotland, and makes a formidable partnership with Simon Taylor at both club and country level.
Allister Miller Lieutenant-Colonel Allister Miller DSO OBE (1892–1951) was a South African aviation pioneer, who contributed significantly to both military and civil aviation in his country during the first half of the 20th century.
Alliston, Ontario Alliston, Ontario is an Ontario community just about 90 kilometers NNW from Toronto, and about 40 km SW of Barrie, about 18 km W of Cookstown, about 10 km N of Tottenham, about 40 km NE of Orangeville and about 30 km E of Shelburne. It is part of the Town of New Tecumseth which is part of Simcoe County.
Alliteration Alliteration is a stylistic device, or literary technique, in which successive words (more strictly, stressed syllables) begin with the same consonant sound or letter. Alliteration is a frequent tool in poetry but it is also common in prose, particularly to highlight short phrases.
Alliterative Morte Arthure The Alliterative Morte Arthure is a 4346 line Middle English poem, retelling the latter part of the legend of King Arthur. The poem is one of the most significant works in the short-lived revival of alliterative verse in the 14th century.
Allium Allium is the onion genus, with about 1250 species, making it one of the largest plant genera in the world. They are perennial bulbous plants that produce chemical compounds that give them a characteristic onion or garlic taste and odor, and many are used as food plants.
Allium canadense Wild Onion (Allium canadense), also known as Meadow Garlic and Canadian Garlic, is a perennial plant native to North America. It has an edible bulb covered with a dense skin of brown fibers and tastes like an onion.
Allium validum Allium validum, known by several common names including swamp onion, wild onion, and Pacific onion, has been previously classified as a member of the lily family, Liliaceae; however it is now thought of to be in the Alliaceae. There are 500 species in genus Allium, found worldwide.
Allmänna Idrottsklubben [Idrottsklubben, usually called AIK, located in Solna], just north of [[Stockholm, is one of the oldest and largest sports associations in Sweden. Founded in 1891 at Biblioteksgatan in Stockholm by Isidor Behrens, the association has spawned numerous separate departments in different sports such as football, floorball, ice hockey, bandy, golf and handball.
Allmennaksjeselskap Allmennaksjeselskap (lit: Common Stock Company) or ASA is the Norwegian term for a public limited company. ASA or asa is to be added to the company name of all Norwegian companies registered as Allmennaksjeselskap.
AllNight with Jason Smith AllNight with Jason Smith is a syndicated sports talk radio show on ESPN Radio, hosted by Jason Smith. The show is heard Monday through Friday from 11pm PT to 3am PT live from Los Angeles, California, rather than the ESPN Headquarters in Bristol, Connecticut.
Alloa Alloa is a small burgh in Clackmannanshire, Scotland, 6 miles to the east of Stirling, on the north bank of the River Forth. Its most notable visible landmark is the 14th century Alloa Tower (National Trust for Scotland), the surviving part of the ancestral medieval residence of the Erskine family, the Earls of Mar.
Allobroges The Allobroges (sometimes spelt as allobrogs) were a warlike Celtic tribe in Gaul located between the Rhône River and the Lake of Geneva in what later became Savoy, Dauphiné, and Vivarais. Their cities were in areas of modern-day Lyon, Saint-Etienne and Grenoble and the modern departement of Isère and in the modern Switzerland.
Allocation (MLS) In Major League Soccer, an allocation represents an amount of money teams can use to sign players and/or allocate to their salaries to get under the salary cap. Allocations are given to teams that have missed the playoffs the previous seasons, given to expansion teams, or awarded as compensation for players lost.
Allocation voting Allocation voting is any voting system in which voters are assigned a number of "points" or other unit of account, and are expected to allocate these among a number of alternatives. Unlike preference voting the numbers do not represent ranks but weights.
Allocative efficiency Allocative efficiency is the market condition whereby resources are allocated in a way that maximizes the net benefit attained through their use. Allocative efficiency refers to a situation in which the limited resources of a country are allocated in accordance with the wishes of consumers.
Allocortex The allocortex is a part of the cerebral cortex characterized by having fewer cell layers than the isocortex (less than six). The specific regions of the brain normally described as part of the allocortex are the olfactory cortex and the hippocampus.
Allodaposuchus Allodaposuchus was an ancient crocodilian, living during the Upper Cretaceous (Campanian-Maastrichtian) of Southern Europe (France, Spain, Romania). It had strong jaws to rip its prey to pieces when it brought the victim down.
Allodial title Allodial title is a concept in some systems of property law. It describes a situation where real property (land, buildings and fixtures) is owned free and clear of any encumbrances, including liens, mortgages and tax obligations.
Allodynia Allodynia, meaning "other pain", is an exaggerated response to otherwise non-noxious stimuli and can be either static or mechanical. Allodynia is not referred pain and can occur in other areas that are not stimulated; it is also dysesthetic.
Allograft An allograft or allogeneic transplant refers to when transplanted cells, tissues or organs are sourced from a genetically non-identical member of the same species. Most human tissue and organ transplants are allografts.
Allograft diseases Allograft diseases are those in which cancerous cells are spread between individuals of the same species by physical contact. To date only two such diseases have been discovered, these are Devil facial tumour disease found in the Tasmanian Devil and canine transmissible venereal tumour which infects dogs.
Allograph (handwriting) In graphonomics and handwriting recognition, the concept of allograph is concerned with the fact that in handwriting, one particular letter from an alphabet can be realized using a number of shapes. The most evident occurrence of an allograph is in the upper-case and lower-case shape for one letter (cf.
Allogromiida The Allogromiida are a small group of foraminiferans, including those that produce organic tests (Lagynacea). Genetic studies have shown that some foraminiferans with agglutinated tests, previously included in the Textulariida or as their own order Astrorhizida, also belong here.
Allochrony The term allochrony is used in ecology to describe a situation where two biological entities (typically species) occur in the same area, and are thus sympatric, but are never or rarely active simultaneously. The most common temporal scale at which this is seen is seasonal, and greater emphasis is placed on the phenomenon when the two entities share a common resource that they would otherwise be in competition for (for example, feeding on the same host plant, or consuming the same prey).
Alloimmunity Alloimmunity is a condition in which the body gains immunity, from another individual of the same species, against its own cells. Alloimmunity should not be confused with autoimmunity in which the body's immune system attacks its own cells without being provoked or influenced by substances or cells from another member of the same species.
Allomon Allomon is a fictional character from the Digimon franchise, a Champion Level Dinosaur Digimon and the Armor Digivolved form of Hawkmon through the Digi-Egg of Courage. He resembles an Allosaurus and is Tyrannomon's rival.
Allomone An allomone is any chemical produced and released by an individual of one species that affects the behaviour of a member of another species to the benefit of the originator. Production of allomones is a common form of defence, particularly by plant species against insect herbivores.
Allon Plan The Allon Plan is an historic proposal to end the Israeli occupation of the West Bank with a negotiated partition of its territories between Israel and the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. The plan was an attempt to implement the "Jordanian option" to the Palestinian refugee problem (also known as "Jordan is Palestine").
Allon Road The Allon Road is the name commonly given by Israelis to routes #578, #508, and #458 in the West Bank, running roughly north-south between Mehola in the central Jordan Valley and east of Ma'ale Adummim on the eastern outskirts of Jerusalem.
Allonautilus The genus Allonautilus contains two species of nautiluses, which differ significantly in terms of morphology from those placed in the sister taxon Nautilus. Allonautilus is now thought to be a descendant of Nautilus and the latter paraphyletic.
Allonge Allonge (from French allonger, "to draw out"), a slip of paper affixed to a negotiable instrument, as a bill of exchange, for the purpose of receiving additional endorsements for which there may not be sufficient space on the bill itself. An endorsement written on the allonge is deemed to be written on the bill itself.
Allopanishad Allopanishad is a purported Upanishad of the Atharva Veda, believed to be written during Akbar's reign. It declares that "the Allah of the prophet Muhammad Akbar is the God of Gods" and identifies him with Mitra, Varuṇa, Surya, Soma, Indra, etc.
Allopatric speciation Allopatric speciation, also known as geographic speciation, occurs when populations physically isolated by an extrinsic barrier evolve intrinsic (genetic) reproductive isolation such that if the barrier between the populations breaks down, individuals of the two populations can no longer interbreed. Although there is some debate about the frequency of other types of speciation (such as sympatric speciation and parapatric speciation), all evolutionary biologists agree that allopatry is a common way that new species arise.
Allophilia Allophilia -- positive attitudes for a group that is not one's own -- is a term derived from Greek words meaning "liking or love of the other" (Pittinsky, 2005). Studied by social scientists, allophilia is the antonym of prejudice and the antonym of a host of "isms": sexism, racism, heterosexism, ageism, anti-Semitism, elitism/classism or phallocentrism.
Allophone In phonetics, an allophone is one of several similar phones that belong to the same phoneme. A phone is a sound that has a definite shape as a sound wave, while a phoneme is a basic group of sounds that can distinguish words (i.
Allophonic rule An allophonic rule is a phonological rule that says which allophone realizes a phoneme in a given phonemic environment. In other words, an allophonic rule is a rule that converts the phonemes in a phonemic transcription into the allophones of the corresponding phonetic transcription.
Allopoiesis Allopoiesis is the process whereby a system produces something other than the system itself. One example of this is an assembly line, where the final product (such as a car) is distinct from the machines doing the producing.
Allostasis Allostasis is the process of achieving stability, or homeostasis, through physiological or behavioral change. This can be carried out by means of alteration in HPA axis hormones, the autonomic nervous system, cytokines, or a number of other systems, and is generally adaptive in the short term (McEwen & Wingfield, 2003), (Sterling & Eyer, 1988).
Allostatic load The physiological costs of chronic exposure to the neural or neuroendocrine stress response. Allostatic load specifically refers to a composite index of indicators of cumulative strain on multiple organs and tissues.
Allosteric regulation In biochemistry, allosteric regulation is the regulation of an enzyme or protein by binding an effector molecule at the protein's allosteric site (that is, a site other than the protein's active site). Effectors that enhance the protein's activity are referred to as allosteric activators, whereas those that decrease the protein's activity are called allosteric inhibitors.
Allotinus fabius The Angled Darkie Allotinus fabius (Distant & Pryer, 1887) is a small butterfly found in India, Myanmar and South East AsiaPage on Marrku Savela's site for genus Allotinus (Lycaenidae). Card for fabius in LepIndex.
Allotment (financial) In terms of finance, an allotment is a method of distributing securities to investors when an issue has been oversubscribed. At the end of the subscription period, the demand for a new issue can exceed the number of shares or bonds being issued.
Allotment (gardening) Allotment gardens are characterized by a concentration in one place of a few or up to several hundreds of land parcels that are assigned to individual families. In allotment gardens, the parcels are cultivated individually, contrary to other community garden types where the entire area is tended collectively by a group of people.
Allotopic expression Expression from the nuclear genome of genes that normally are expressed only from the mitochondrial genome is referred to as allotopic expression (AE). Biomedically engineered AE has been suggested as a possible future tool in gene therapy of certain mitochondria-related diseases (de Grey 2000), however this view is controversial (Oca-Cossio et al 2003).
Allotropa virgata Allotropa virgata is in the family Ericaceae (Heath Family) and is the only species of the genus Allotropa. It is a perennial plant that gets its common names from the distinct white and red or maroon stripes along its erect peduncle.
Allotropy Allotropy (Gr. allos, other, and tropos, manner) is a behaviour exhibited by certain chemical elements: these elements can exist in two or more different forms, known as allotropes of that element. In each different allotrope, the element's atoms are bonded together in a different manner.
Allow Us to Be Frank Allow Us to Be Frank is the sixth album by Irish boyband Westlife, released on 8 November 2004 (see 2004 in music). It reached number three in the UK and included the singles "Ain't That a Kick in the Head" (originally recorded by Dean Martin in 1960) and "Beyond the Sea" (cover version of French poet/singer Charles Trenet's 1945 pop song, made famous by Bobby Darin as a major hit in 1960).
Allowat Sakima In the language of the Lenni Lenape, or Delaware tribe of North American Indians, the term Allowat Sakima literally means Mighty Chief or Great Chief, an allegorical reference to supreme deity . Also a respectful reference for legendary personages with cultural and historical significance to a tribe.
Alloway Alloway (Scottish Gaelic: <I>Allmhaigh</I>) is a village and suburb of Ayr on the River Doon, in Scotland. It is best known as the birthplace of Robert Burns, and is also where he set Tam o' Shanter.
Alloxylon flammeum Alloxylon flammeum, the Queensland Tree Waratah or Red Silky Oak is a medium-sized tree of the Proteaceae found in only a few kilometres of the Atherton Tableland in northeastern Australia. Previously known as Oreocallis wickhamii, the initial specimen turned out to be a different species to the one cultivated and hence a new scientific name was required.
Alloy An alloy is a combination, either in solution or compound, of two or more elements, at least one of which is a metal, and where the resulting material has metallic properties. The resulting metallic substance has different properties (sometimes significantly different) from those of its components.
Alloy 20 Alloy 20 is a corrosion-resistant nickel-chromium-molybdenum stainless steel alloy developed for applications involving sulfuric acid. Its corrosion resistance also finds other uses in the chemical, food, pharmaceutical, and plastic industries.
Allphones Allphones is an Australian company, originating in Western Australia. They primarily concentrate on their retail telecommunications stores, both franchised and company owned, in which multiple networks are represented; Telstra, Optus, Virgin Mobile, 3 Mobile, and Vodafone.
Allpoint Allpoint is an interbank network in the United States connecting ATMs in all 50 states. It advertises itself as being "America's Largest Surcharge-Free ATM Network", with "1 in every 12 ATMs" being part of its network.
Allright The Allright (known in Germany as the Allreit) was a German automobile manufactured from 1908 to 1913 at the Cologne-Lilianthal factory that produced Allright, Tiger, Roland, and Vindec-Special bicycles and motorcycles. The Allright-Mobil was offered with 5hp or 7hp vee-twin engines; the last models had sv 960cc air-cooled engines.
Allsorts (TV series) Allsorts, later Gigglish Allsorts was a television programme for young children produced by Granada Television and was broadcast on Children's ITV from 1987 until the early 1990s. The show comprised of five main characters.
Allstar (fuel card) Allstar, also branded as Arval and PHH, is a British brand of fuel card, which permits commercial road transport operators to fuel securely without having to carry cash or general credit cards, and provides the necessary accounting information to satisfy the details of recording Value Added Tax payments for the purpose of reclaiming tax from HM Revenue and Customs. Unlike many fuel cards, the Allstar card does not offer a commercial rate for fuel bought using it – instead the purchaser pays the price displayed at the fuelling station, but it is perceived as having a commercial advantage over many other brands because it is usable at the great majority (95%+) of UK fuelling stations, which may outweigh cost issues in the opinion of company transport managers.
Allstate 400 at the Brickyard The Allstate 400 at The Brickyard is an annual 400-mile (644 km) NASCAR Nextel Cup points race held at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Speedway, Indiana. From 1994 to 2004, the race was known as the Brickyard 400.
Allstate Arena The Allstate Arena is a sports arena in Rosemont, Illinois, which is home to the Chicago Wolves hockey club, DePaul University men's basketball, and the Chicago Rush Arena football team. It is located at the intersection of Mannheim Road and Interstate 90, adjacent to O'Hare International Airport.
Allston Burr Senior Tutor The Allston Burr Senior Tutor, or simply the Senior Tutor, is the highest-ranking academic officer of an undergraduate House at Harvard College. In this capacity, the Senior Tutor is effectively the academic dean of the house, and the administrator of resident and non-resident tutors.
Allsvenskan (disambiguation) Allsvenskan (literally, "the all Swedish") is the name of several Swedish sport leagues that cover the whole of Sweden. The best known league named Allsvenskan is Fotbollsallsvenskan, the highest league in Swedish football.
Allt í drasli Allt í drasli (All in a mess) is the Icelandic version of the British television show How Clean is Your House?. In place of the British hosts, Kim and Aggie, it features Margrét Sigfúsdóttir, a former headmistress of the Housewife School, and Heiðar Jónsson, a beautician.
Allt Graad Allt Graad (Scottish Gaelic, Allt Grànnda, meaning "Ugly Stream") is a river in Easter Ross, Highland, Scotland, flowing 9 km (5½ miles) from Loch Glass through Glen Glass past Evanton into the Cromarty Firth. It meets the sea about a mile from the mouth of the River Sgitheach.
Allt-yr-yn Allt-yr-yn () is an affluent and sought-after suburb in the city of Newport, South Wales. Pronounced by locals as "Olt-er-reen", the spelling should include two Ns at the end, as "Allt-yr-ynn".
Alltel Pavilion at Walnut Creek The Alltel Pavilion at Walnut Creek (locally known as the Alltel Pavilion) is an outdoor amphitheatre just outside Raleigh, North Carolina that specializes in hosting large concerts. The amphitheatre is located on the west bank of Walnut Creek, southeast of Raleigh near the I-40/US 64/I-440 (Beltline) interchange.
Allthing In Jacqueline Carey's Kushiel's Legacy series, the Allthing is an enormous meeting of the heads of all the tribes of Skaldia. Though most of the persons present are male, women have the right to speak at the Allthing, won for them by Brunhild the Doughty, who wrestled Hobart Longspear and beat him two of three matches.
Alluaudia Alluaudia is a genus of six species of flowering plants endemic to Madagascar, where they form an important component of the Madagascar spiny forests. They are spiny succulent shrubs and trees from 2-20 m tall, with leaves that are deciduous in the long dry season.
Allume Systems Allume Systems is a software developer, originally founded in 1988 in New York City as Aladdin Systems to develop, publish and distribute software for personal computers. Currently, Allume is headquartered in Watsonville, California, as part of Smith Micro Software.
Allumette; A Fable, with Due Respect to Hans Christian Andersen, the Grimm Brothers, and the Honorable Ambrose Bierce Allumette; A Fable, with Due Respect to Hans Christian Andersen, the Grimm Brothers, and the Honorable Ambrose Bierce, by Tomi Ungerer, was originally published in 1974. It is a "reimagining" of "The Little Match Girl" by Hans Christian Andersen.
Allumwandlung Allumwandlung (German for "complete promotion", sometimes shortened to AUW) is a chess problem where, at some stage in the solution, the pawn (or sometimes pawns) is promoted variously to a knight, bishop, rook and queen.
Allusion Allusion is a stylistic device or trope, in which one refers covertly or indirectly to an object or circumstance that has occurred or existed in an external context. It is left to the reader or hearer to make the connection (Fowler); an overt allusion is a misnomer for what is simply a reference.
Alluvial desert Alluvial describes rich, fertile soil deposited by rivers and streams, so the alluvial desert is a desert that has been created from two large rivers leaving behind their rich, fertile sediments. The world's first civilization, which was Mesopotamia, developed in this region in between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers.
Alluvial fan An alluvial fan is a fan-shaped deposit formed where a fast flowing stream flattens, slows, and spreads typically at the exit of a canyon onto a flatter plain. A convergence of neighboring alluvial fans into a single apron of deposits against a slope is called a bajada, or compound alluvial fan.
Alluvial plain An alluvial plain is a relatively flat and gently sloping landform found at the base of a range of hills. As the hills erode due to weathering and water flow the sediment from the hills is transported to the lower plain.
Alluvion Alluvion a legal term which describes the increase in the area of land due to sediment (alluvium) which is deposited by a river. This changes the size of a piece of land (a process called accession) and thus its value over time.
Alluvium Alluvium (from the Latin, alluvius, from alluere, "to wash against") is soil or sediments deposited by a river or other running water. Alluvium is typically made up of a variety of materials, including fine particles of silt and clay and larger particles of sand and gravel.
Allvelo Allvelo (Allmänna Velocipedförsäljnings AB) was a company founded by Fritiof Karlström in Landskrona. They mostly made bicycles, but between 1903 and 1907 they assembled and sold CKD cars and trucks under their own name.
Ally & Gargano Ally & Gargano was an American advertising agency, which Advertising Age named agency of the year in 1982. Famous clients included Volvo, Saab, Federal Express (the "speed talker" campaign), and Dunkin' Donuts ("Fred the Baker" campaign).
Ally Fowler Alexandra Fowler (born 6 December 1961), better known under her stage name Ally Fowler, is an Australian actress who came to prominence with parts in two major soap operas of the 1980s: Angela Hamilton in Sons and Daughters and Zoe Davis in Neighbours. On 24 August, 2001 she appeared on the Australian-American science fiction series Farscape in the episode "Fractures" as the voice of Orrhn.
Ally Sloper Alexander "Ally" Sloper is one of the earliest fictional comic strip characters. Red-nosed and blustery, an archetypal lazy schemer often found "sloping" through alleys to avoid his landlord and other creditors, he was created for the British magazine Judy, by writer and fledgling artist Charles H.
Ally's Tartan Army Ally's Tartan Army was a novelty record released by Scottish comedian Andy Cameron to mark the Scottish football team's qualification for the 1978 World Cup in Argentina. The "Tartan Army" are Scotland's fans; "Ally" was team manager Ally McLeod.
Allyl isothiocyanate Allyl isothiocyanate is the chemical compound responsible for the pungent taste of mustard, horseradish and wasabi. It is a colorless to pale yellow liquid that is slightly soluble in water, but well soluble in most organic solvents.
Allylamine Allylamine (also known as 3-aminopropene, 3-aminopropylene, monoallylamine, 2-propenamine, 2-propen-1-amine, or allyl amine) is an organic amine with the molecular formula C3H7N. It is a highly toxic and flammable colorless liquid.
Allylic strain Allylic strain or 1,3-allylic strain in organic chemistry and its associated strain energy results from an unfavorable molecular conformation for the allyl group. The simplest representative of the allyls, propene, in its ground state has the methyl C-H bond eclipsed with the carbon carbon double bond.
Allylpalladium chloride dimer Allylpalladium(II) chloride dimer, or bis(allyl)di-μ-chloro-dipalladium(II), is a chemical compound with the formula (η3- C3H5)2Pd2Cl2. This yellow air-stable compound is an important catalyst used in organic synthesis.
Allyn and Betty Taylor Library The Allyn and Betty Taylor Library is the second-largest academic library on the University of Western Ontario campus. It is home to the one of the largest collections of scientific literature in Canada, and is Western's main science library.
Allyn Abbott Young Allyn Abbott Young (1876—1929), celebrated American economist, was born into a middle-class family in Kenton, Ohio on September 19 1876 and died aged 52 in London on March 7 1929, his life cut short by pneumonia during an influenza epidemic. He was then at the height of his intellectual powers and current president of Section F of the British Association.

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