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Van Biesbroeck (crater) Van Biesbroeck is a small lunar impact crater that is centered across the southern rim of the lava-flooded Krieger crater, in the Oceanus Procellarum. The crater is circular and symmetrical, with sloping inner walls that run down to a small interior floor.
Van Briggle Pottery Established in Colorado Springs, Colorado in 1901 by Artus and Anne Van Briggle, the Van Briggle Art Pottery is the oldest continuously operating art pottery in America. Its founder had a significant impact on the Art Nouveau movement worldwide, and his pottery is foundational to American Art Pottery.
Van Buren (Fallout) Van Buren was the codename given to Fallout 3, a game that was being developed by Black Isle Studios before Interplay, the parent company of Black Isle, laid off the PC development team on December 8, 2003. Van Buren was set to carry on the Fallout series, following Fallout 2, prior to being cancelled.
Van Buren Popcorn Festival The annual Van Buren Popcorn Festival is held each August in Van Buren, Indiana in celebration of the central role of popcorn in the town's identity. As with many small town festivals, the town of Van Buren has focused its annual summer celebration around a theme that has a lot of meaning to the local community.
Van Buren Trail State Park The Van Buren Trail State Park, also known as Trail State Park, is an unimproved rail trail running along a former railroad right-of-way between Hartford, Michigan to just south of South Haven, Michigan in Van Buren County. It is 14 miles long and mostly used by horse trail riders in the summer and snowmobilers in the winter.
Van Buren, Arkansas Van Buren, Arkansas () is the second largest city in the Fort Smith metropolitan area and the county seat of Crawford County, Arkansas. The city is located directly northeast of Fort Smith at the Interstate 40 - Interstate 540 junction.
Van Cleef & Arpels A famous French jewelry house; its origins in 1896 lay in the hands of Alfred Van Cleef and his father in law Salomon Arpels. They occupied their first shop in the Place Vendome at number 22, where their premises are still located.
Van Cliburn Harvey Lavan Cliburn Jr. (known as Van Cliburn) (born July 12, 1934) is an American pianist who achieved worldwide recognition in 1958 when, at the age of 23, he won the first quadrennial International Tchaikovsky Piano Competition in Moscow, at the height of the Cold War.
Van Cliburn International Piano Competition The Van Cliburn International Piano Competition was first held in 1962 in Fort Worth, Texas. This was created by Fort Worth area teachers in honor of Van Cliburn, who had won the first International Tchaikovsky Competition four years prior with Tchaikovsky's First Piano Concerto.
Van Cortlandt Park–242nd Street (IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line) Van Cortlandt Park–242nd Street is the northern terminal station on the IRT Broadway-Seventh Avenue Line of the New York City Subway. Located at the intersection of 242nd Street and Broadway in the Bronx, it is served by the train at all times.
Van Cortlandt Village, Bronx Van Cortlandt Village is the name of a neighborhood in the Kingsbridge Heights section of the Bronx. Named after Van Cortlandt Park, which is located in the area, the neighborhood is home to a primary Jewish community (due to Riverdale being the nextdoor neighborhood), with some Irish and Hispanic residents.
Van de Graaff (crater) Van de Graaff is an unusual lunar formation that has the appearance of two merged craters, approximately in a figure-8 shape with no intervening rim separating the two halves. The crater is located on the far side of the Moon, on the northeast edge of Mare Ingenii.
Van de Graaff generator A Van de Graaff generator is an electrostatic machine which uses a moving belt to accumulate very high voltages on a hollow metal globe. The potential differences achieved in modern Van de Graaff generators can reach 5 megavolts.
Van den Puup Van den Puup is a fictitious character for a marketing campaign by IKEA in Great Britain. Van den Puup is portrayed as a snobbish designer who creates a faction known as Elite Designers against Ikea, a group who believes design should be expensive and for the elite.
Van der Capellen Scholengemeenschap The Van der Capellen Scholengemeenschap is a Dutch high school with locations in Zwolle, Elburg, Dedemsvaart and Wijhe. The main location, Locatie Lassuslaan, offers bilingual pre-university secondary education.
Van der Giessen de Noord Van der Giessen de Noord was a shipyard that mainly built ferries, located in Krimpen aan den IJssel, a town in the western Netherlands. The yard was especially suited to the construction of large vessels due to its developed undercover facilities.
Van der Moolen Van der Moolen is a Dutch equity trading firm, with its headquarters located in Amsterdam. They are mainly active in the United States and in Europe, particularly in the Netherlands, France, Germany, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.
Van der Pauw method The van der Pauw Method is a commonly used technique, based around the Hall effect, which characterises a sample of semiconductor material and can be successfully completed with a current source and a voltmeter. Products are available to automatically perform this procedure; however they typically offer the ability to do so at a range of temperatures.
Van der Pol oscillator In dynamics, the Van der Pol oscillator (named for Dutch physicist Balthasar van der Pol) is a type of nonconservative oscillator with nonlinear damping. It evolves in time according to the second order differential equation:
Van der Valk Van der Valk was a UK television series made by Thames Television starring Barry Foster in the title role as Dutch detective Commissaris Piet van der Valk. Based on the characters and atmosphere (but not the plots) of the novels of Nicholas Freeling, the first series was shown in 1972.
Van der Waals equation The van der Waals equation is an equation of state for a fluid composed of particles that have a non-zero size and a pairwise attractive inter-particle force (such as the van der Waals force.) It was derived by Johannes Diderik van der Waals in 1873, based on a modification of the ideal gas law.
Van der Waals radius The van der Waals radius of an atom is the radius of an imaginary hard sphere which can be used to model the atom for many purposes. Van der Waals radii are determined from measurements of atomic spacing between pairs of unbonded atoms in crystals.
Van der Waals strain In chemistry van der Waals strain is strain resulting from van der Waals repulsion when two substituents in a molecule approach each other with a distance less than the sum of their van der Waals radii. Van der Waals strain is also called van der Waals repulsion and related to steric hindrance.
Van der Waals' forces In chemistry, Van der Waals' forces (sometimes called London dispersion forces) is a class of intermolecular forces which arise from the polarization of molecules into dipoles. This includes forces that arise from fixed or angle-averaged dipoles (Keesom forces) and free or rotation dipoles (Debye forces) as well as shifts in electron cloud distribution (London forces).
Van der Waerden Number Van der Waerden's theorem states that for any positive integers r and k there exists a positive integer N such that if the integers {1, 2, ..., N} are colored, each with one of r different colors, then there are at least k integers in arithmetic progression all of the same color.
Van der Woude syndrome Van Der Woude syndrome (VDWS) consists of the following characteristics: cleft lip with or without cleft palate, isolated cleft palate, pits or mucous cysts on the lower lip, and hypodontia. It is the most common syndromic form of cleft lip and palate (CLP), accounting for 2% of all CLP cases (usually CLP is nonsyndromic).
Van Deemter's equation The Van Deemter equation in chromatography relates the variance per unit length of a separation column to the linear mobile phase velocity by considering physical, kinetic, and thermodynamic properties of a separation Van Deemter, et. al.
Van Deinse Instituut The Van Deinse Instituut, located in the city of Enschede, is aimed at finding out more about the cultural past and present of Twente, a non-administrative region in the east of the Netherlands. The institution does this by means of studying, documenting and preserving archaeological findings, history, folklore, language, art and certain aspects of nature, environment and landscapes and presents it's findings through exhibitions.
Van Diemen's Land (song) "Van Diemen's Land" is the second track from U2's 1988 album, Rattle and Hum. A quiet song, in a folk style, it is one of only four songs with lead vocals by The Edge (the other three being "Seconds", "Numb" and "Corpse").
Van Diemen's Land Company The Van Diemen's Land Company was created by Royal Charter in 1824 and was granted 250 000 acres in northwest Tasmania in 1826. The company was a group of London merchants who planned a wool growing venture to supply the needs of the British textile industry.
Van Doren Rubber Company The Van Doren Rubber Company, better known as "Vans", has been, since 1966, a Southern California based manufacturer of sneakers, skate shoes and other shoe types catering primarily to the active youth market. They market heavily in the surfing and skateboarding areas.
Van Dyke Parks Van Dyke Parks (born January 3, 1943) is an American composer, arranger, producer, musician, singer and actor noted for his collaborations with Brian Wilson of The Beach Boys on the song "Heroes and Villains" and the recently released cult-legend album, Smile.
Van Eck phreaking Van Eck phreaking is the process of eavesdropping on the contents of a CRT or LCD display by detecting its electromagnetic emissions. It is named after Dutch computer researcher Wim van Eck, who in 1985 published the first paper on it, including proof of concept.
Van Eck Professor of Engineering The Van Eck Professorship of Engineering is a professorship at the University of Cambridge. Founded in 2001, it is intended to complement the university's work in communications systems and software research within the Department of Engineering and elsewhere.
Van Emde Boas tree A van Emde Boas tree (or van Emde Boas priority queue), also known as a vEB tree, is a tree data structure which implements an associative array with m-bit integer keys. It performs all operations in O(log m) time.
Van Flyheight Van Flyheight (Ban Freiheit in the original Japanese version) is a character from the anime series Zoids: Chaotic Century and Zoids: Guardian Force, based on TOMY's Zoids model franchise. Voiced by Matthew Erikson in the english dub of the series, he is the protagonist of the story.
Van Gent (crater) Van Gent is a lunar crater on the far side of the Moon that is located to the south-southeast of the larger Konstantinov crater. About an equal distance to the east-southeast is the Spencer Jones crater and to the southeast is Papaleksi crater.
Van Gink The Van Gink was a Dutch automobile manufactured between 1899 and around 1903. Powered by two separate 2½ hp engines mounted at its rear, the tubular-framed voiturette was the product of a cycle maker from Amsterdam.
Van Gogh (album) Van Gogh was supposed to be the third Ras Kass album to be released in stores. However, due to the lack of promotion, a dilemma with producer Alchemist over a re-sold beat, and an early internet leak of the album, Priority Records decided to shelve the Van Gogh.
Van Gogh Museum The Van Gogh Museum is a museum in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, featuring the works of the Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh and his contemporaries. It has the largest collection of Van Gogh's paintings and drawings in the world.
Van Halen - Live Without a Net Live concert video of Van Halen recorded in New Haven, CT in 1986, and released the following year. "Live Without A Net" was of Van Halen performance on August 27th 1986 at New Haven's Veterans Memorial Coliseum.
Van Halen III Van Halen III is the eleventh studio album by American hard rock band Van Halen, released in 1998. It is the only Van Halen album to feature Gary Cherone on lead vocals, and is commonly said to be Van Halen's most unpopular album as of 2007.
Van Halen: Right Here, Right Now - Live A collection of live concert footage (from the Hagar era of the band) during the 1991-1992 For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge tour. The footage was filmed with 15 cameras over two nights in May 1992 and mixed together, with the bulk of the footage and music coming from the second night.
Van Hall Instituut The Van Hall Instituut is a University of Professional Education for Agriculture, Food Technology, and Environmental and Animal Sciences. It is a teaching, training, and research centre in the north of the Netherlands offering students Bachelor and Specialist degree programmes, which focus on such themes as nature, the environment, animal care, rural resources, sustainability, and nutrition.
Van Hansis Evan Vanfossen Hansis (born September 25, 1981) is an American actor. Hansis, who uses the name Van professionally, currently stars on the CBS soap opera As the World Turns as Luke Snyder, the son of one of the show's signature supercouples, Holden and Lily Snyder (played by Jon Hensley and Martha Byrne).
Van Helsing (video game) Van Helsing is a third-person shooter for the Play Station 2 and Xbox which resembles the events of the 2004 action/horror film of the same name by Stephen Sommers. Starting off with the killing of Mr Hyde in Paris in a similar way as to that of the movie, one must use the character of Van Helsing to hunt down Dracula in Transylvania.
Van Hool Van Hool NV is a Belgian coachbuilder and manufacturer of buses, coaches and trailers. Most of the buses and coaches are built totally by Van Hool, with engines and axles sourced from Cummins and MAN and gearboxes from ZF or Voith, and some of their production consists of building bus and coach bodies on bus chassis from manufacturers such as Mercedes-Benz, Volvo and Scania.
Van Horne Mansion The Van Horne Mansion was a classic, ornate art-deco house in downtown Montreal that once belonged to Canadian railroad magnate William Cornelius Van Horne. It existed on Sherbrooke street at the corner of Stanley.
Van Hunt Van Hunt (born March 8, 1977) is an African-American R&B/neo soul singer, songwriter, and record producer. He first made a name for himself as a producer in the late-1990s, producing singles such as Dionne Farris' "Hopeless.
Van Jacobson Van Jacobson joined PARC as a research fellow in August 2006. He previously served as chief scientist at Packet Design LLCPrior to that, he was chief scientist at Cisco Systems] and group leader for the Network Research Group at [[Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory.
Van Jacobson TCP/IP Header Compression Van Jacobson TCP/IP Header Compression is a data compression protocol described in RFC 1144, specifically designed to improve TCP/IP performance over slow serial links developed by Van Jacobson. Van Jacobson compression reduces the normal 40 byte TCP/IP packet headers down to 3-4 bytes for the average case.
Van Jones Van Jones (1968-) is a civil rights and human rights advocate in Oakland, CA working to combine solutions to both social inequality and environmental destruction. He is an attorney as well as the founder and executive director of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights.
Van Lingle Mungo Van Lingle Mungo (June 8, 1911 - February 12, 1985) was a Major League Baseball right-handed pitcher known for his long career with the Dodgers team, 1931 - 1941, then based at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn, New York. At the end of his baseball career, he played with the Giants team, then based at the Polo Grounds in Manhattan, in 1942, 1943, and 1945.
Van McCoy Van Allen Clinton McCoy (January 6, 1940 - July 6, 1979) was a music producer, musician, songwriter, and orchestra conductor most famous for his massive 1975 disco hit "The Hustle", which is still played on dance floors today, almost 30 years after his death. He is also notable for producing such recording artists as Gladys Knight and the Pips, The Stylistics, Aretha Franklin, Brenda & The Tabulations, David Ruffin and Peaches & Herb and Stacy Lattisaw.
Van Mildert College Van Mildert College, commonly known as Mildert, is a college of the University of Durham in England. Founded in 1965, it takes its name from William Van Mildert, Prince-Bishop of Durham from 1826 to 1836 and a leading figure in the University's 1832 foundation.
Van Mildert Professor of Divinity The Van Mildert Professor of Divinity is one of the oldest and most prestigious of the professorships at the University of Durham. The chair is named in honour of Bishop William Van Mildert, one of the founders of the University.
Van Miller Van Miller, the former play-by-play announcer for the National Football League's Buffalo Bills, was the longest-tenured commentator with one team (37 years) in pro football history upon his retirement after the 2003 season.
Van Ness' Regiment of Militia The Van Ness' Regiment of Militia also know as the 9th Albany County Militia Regimentwas called up in July, 1777 at Claverack, New York to reinforce the Gen. Horatio Gates's Continental Army during the Saratoga Campaign.
Van Nest, Bronx Van Nest, a neighborhood which overlaps the southwestern corner of the Morris Park section of The Bronx, is bounded by Bronxdale Avenue, the Amtrak/Metro-North tracks, East Tremont Avenue, and the Bronx River Parkway. Most of the residents are Italian American, African American, and Hispanic, with some Albanian immigrants as well.
Van Noy Brothers The Van Noy Brothers of Kansas City was the collective name of the four Kansas City, Missouri, brothers who founded the old Van Noy Railway News and Hotel Company, also known as the Van Noy Interstate Co., and known today as HMSHost.
Van Noy Railway News and Hotel Company The Van Noy Railway News and Hotel Company, known today as HMSHost, was the original name and foundational business that engaged in providing products, services, and entertainment to customers on the go. Today, the Company is still the largest of its kind.
Van Nuys Assembly Van Nuys Assembly was a General Motors automobile factory in Van Nuys, California. Opened as a Chevrolet plant in 1947, Van Nuys produced the Chevrolet Corvair, Chevrolet Nova, Chevrolet Camaro, and Pontiac Firebird.
Van Nuys High School Van Nuys High School (VNHS) established in 1914, is a high school in the Van Nuys area of Los Angeles, California, belonging to the Los Angeles Unified School District. The school is home to a Residential Program and three Magnet Programs: Math/Science, Performing Arts, and Medical.
Van Rensselaer Potter Van Rensselaer Potter II (August 27, 1911 – September 6, 2001) was an American biochemist. He was Professor of Oncology at the McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison for more than 50 years.
Van Roosmalen's Porcupine Van Roosmalen's Porcupine, Sphiggurus roosmalenorum, is a porcupine species from the Erethizontidae family endemic to northern Brazil. It is named for Marc van Roosmalen and his son Tomas, whose collections from the middle Madeira included the first known specimens.
Van Schoonhoven's Regiment of Militia The Van Schoonoven's Regiment of Militia also know as the 12th Albany County Militia Regiment was called up in July 1777 at Halfmoon, New York, to reinforce Gen. Horatio Gates's Continental Army during the Saratoga Campaign.
Van Siclen Avenue (BMT Jamaica Line) Van Siclen Avenue is a skip-stop station on the BMT Jamaica Line of the New York City Subway. Located at the intersection of Fulton Street and Van Siclen Avenue in Brooklyn, it is served by the train during rush hours, and by the train other times.
Van Siclen Avenue (IND Fulton Street Line) Van Siclen Avenue is a station on the IND Fulton Street Line of the New York City Subway. Located at the intersection of Van Siclen and Pitkin Avenues in Brooklyn, it is served by the train at all times except late nights, when the train provides service.
Van Siclen Avenue (IRT Eastern Parkway Line) Van Siclen Avenue is a station on the IRT Eastern Parkway Line of the New York City Subway, currently serving mainly the train, but also the , , and trains. Located at Van Siclen Avenue and Livonia Avenue in Brooklyn, it has two tracks with two side platforms, as well as a wooden mezzanine.
Van Slyke determination The Van Slyke determination is a chemical test for the determination of amino acids containing a primary amine group. A sample is brought into contact with a solution of sodium nitrite in glycerol, water and acetic acid.
Van Stockum dust In general relativity, the van Stockum dust is an exact solution of the Einstein field equation in which the gravitational field is generated by dust rotating about an axis of cylindrical symmetry. Since the density of the dust is increasing with distance from this axis, the solution is rather artificial, but as one of the simplest known solutions in general relativity, it stands as a pedagogically important example.
Van Sweringen brothers Oris Paxton (24 April, 1879–November 22, 1936, heart attack) and Mantis James (July 8, 1881–December 12, 1934) Van Sweringen were brothers who became railroad barons in order to develop Shaker Heights, Ohio. They are better known as O.
Van Taylor Van Taylor (born 1972) is a Texas businessman and Iraqi War veteran who was an unsuccessful Republican candidate for the United States Congress in Texas' 17th Congressional District in 2006, a year in which no Republican candidate defeated an incumbent Democrat in any race for the United States HouseUnited States House elections, 2006 complete list. Taylor challenged 16-year incumbent Chet Edwards, a graduate of Texas A&M University in College Station.
Van Tilburg Collection The Van Tilburg Collection is a permanent museum that comprises 17th & 18th century furniture, paintings, Delft ceramics and other works of art, and includes the largest South African collection of Chinese ceramic objects, of which the oldest date from the Chin Dynasty (221-206 BC).
Van Tuong Nguyen Van Tuong Nguyen (Vietnamese: Nguyễn Tường Vân , baptised Caleb) (17 August 1980 – 2 December 2005) was an Australian from Melbourne, Victoria convicted of drug trafficking in Singapore. A Vietnamese Australian, he was also addressed as Nguyen Tuong Van in the Singaporean media, his name in Vietnamese custom.
Van Vleck (crater) Van Vleck is a lunar impact crater that is located near the northeastern rim of the Gilbert walled plain, to the west of the Mare Smythii. The similar crater Weierstrass is nearly joined to the northwestern rim of Van Vleck.
Van Vleck House and Gardens Van Vleck House and Gardens, a former private estate by the eponymous family, is a non-profit community resource in Montclair, NJ that displays a public botanical garden of mostly ericaceous plants that has been developed over several generations. The display of rhododendrons and azaleas shows numerous hybrids, several named after members of the Van Vleck family.
Van Vleck Observatory Van Vleck Observatory (VVO, IAU code 298) is an astronomical observatory owned and operated by Wesleyan University. It was built in 1914 and named after the former head of the Department of Mathematics and Astronomy at the university, Prof.
Van Wagoner The Van Wagoner was an American automobile manufactured between 1899 and 1900. Advertised as being "built on a simple plan that does away with several levers and push buttons", the car was built in Syracuse, New York, and could supposedly be "controlled with one hand".
Van Wert City Schools, Van Wert County, Ohio Van Wert City Schools is the name most used to be reffered as Van Wert City School District. The district serves students education in the city of Van Wert, along with Liberty, Pleasant, and Ridge townships in Van Wert county in the state of Ohio.
Van Wesenbekestraat Van Wesenbekestraat is the street in Antwerp (Belgium) where the little Chinatown of the city is settled. It contains a lot of Asian restaurants, the biggest Asian supermarket in the country (named Sun Wah), a Buddhist temple and a school for mastering kungfu.
Van Wijk (crater) Van Wijk is a small lunar impact crater that lies in the southern part of the Moon, of the far side as seen from Earth. It is located to the north-northwest of the huge Schrödinger walled plain, and to the southwest of Fechner crater.
Van Wijngaarden grammar A Van Wijngaarden grammar, vW-grammar or W-grammar, is a two-level grammar which provides a technique to define potentially infinite grammars in a finite number of rules. It was invented by Adriaan van Wijngaarden to rigorously define some syntactic restrictions which previously had to be formulated in natural language, despite their essentially syntactical content.
Van Williams Van (Van Zandt) Williams is an American actor (born February 22, 1934, in Fort Worth, Texas) best known for his brief yet world famous television role as "Britt Reid" aka "The Green Hornet" with the late Bruce Lee as his sidekick Kato, in the 1966-1967 ABC The Green Hornet television series, and for his earlier leading role as Kenny Madison in both Warner Bros. television detective series Bourbon Street Beat (1959) and its sequel Surfside Six (1960).
Van Woert's Regiment of Militia The Van Woert's Regiment of Militia also know as the 18th Albany County Militia Regimentwas called up in July, 1777 at Hoosick, New York, USA to reinforce the Gen. Horatio Gates's Continental Army during the Saratoga Campaign.
Van Wouw Museum The Van Wouw Museum, housed in Anton Van Wouw's last residence, a national monument. Besides documents, photos, paintings and tools the exhibits are mainly bronze maquettes and casts of Van Wouw's sculptural work.
Van Wyck Homestead The Van Wyck Homestead or Van Wyck-Wharton House is an early 18th-century Dutch colonial house in the Town of Fishkill, New York, United States of America. It served as a headquarters to a major supply depot during the American Revolutionary War and has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since April 13 1972.
Van Wyck Junior High School Van Wyck Junior High School is an intermediate school in Hopewell Junction, New York, located at 6 Hillside Lake Road and is a part of the Wappingers Central School District. The school opened it's doors in 1964 and presently teaches grades six through eight.
Van's Aircraft RV-8 The Van’s RV-8 is a tandem two-seat, single-engine, low-wing homebuilt aircraft sold in kit form by Van’s Aircraft. The RV-8 is equipped with conventional landing gear, while the RV-8A version features tricycle landing gear.
Van't Hoff equation The Van't Hoff equation in chemical thermodynamics relates the change in temperature to the change in the equilibrium constant given the enthalpy change. It assumes enthalpy change is constant over the temperature range.
Vana Tallinn Vana Tallinn (Estonian for Old Tallinn) is a liqueur produced by the Estonian company Liviko. It is available in 40%, 45% and 50% varieties (80, 90 and 100 proof respectively), as well as a 16% (32 proof) cream liqueur (Vana Tallinn Kooreliköör).
Vana'diel is the fictional world in which Square Enix's massively multiplayer online role-playing game, Final Fantasy XI, is set. Unlike many previous Final Fantasy titles, a large number of the locations within the game are available to be accessed by the player from the beginning.
Vanadium Vanadium (IPA: ) is a chemical element in the periodic table that has the symbol V and atomic number 23. A rare, soft and ductile element, vanadium is found combined in certain minerals and is used mainly to produce certain alloys.
Vanadium redox battery The vanadium redox (and redox flow) battery in its present form (with sulphuric acid electrolytes) was patented by the University of New South Wales in Australia in 1986 . It is a type of rechargeable flow battery that employs vanadium redox couples in both half-cells, thereby eliminating the problem of cross contamination by diffusion of ions across the membrane.
Vanadocene dichloride Vanadocene dichloride, dichlorobis(η5-2,4-cyclopentadien-1-yl) vanadium, or dicyclopentadienyl vanadium dichloride is (η5-C5H5)2VCl2 (commonly abbreviated as Cp2VCl2). It is a close relative of titanocene dichloride but with one additional valence electron, hence Cp2VCl2 is paramagnetic.
Vanadyl(acetylacetonate) Vanadyl(acetylacetonate) or VO(acac)2 is a coordination complex between the vanadyl cation, VO2+, and two acetylacetonate anions, acac−. It is used in organic chemistry as a reagent in the epoxidation of allylic alcohols in combination with tert-butylhydroperoxide or TBHP.
Vanadzor Vanadzor () previously known as Karakilisa, which in Turkish means "black church," and later named Kirovakan (after Sergey Kirov) is a city in northern Armenia. It is the capital of the Lorri province, and the third-largest city in Armenia with a population of 107,394 (2001 census).
Vanaja Vanaja is an old name of a late municipality in central Tavastia, Finland, about 100 kilometers north of Helsinki. It is also speculated that it might have been the name for an Iron Age and early Middle Ages settlement found opposite to the Häme Castle.
Vanand Vanand (Armenian: ŐŽŐˇŐ¶ŐˇŐ¶Ő¤) is the name used to describe the area of historic Armenia that roughly corresponds to the Kars Province of present-day Turkey. Named after the Armenian family of Vanandi, it was a principality of the Kingdom of Armenia and a later province of the Democratic Republic of Armenia.
Vanant The name of a star in Eastern or Zoroastrian religion, Vanant may have its origins in the Sumero-Akkadian Vanand ('victorious, presented with the grace of the Gods'). In Persian mythology, Vanant is the star of the west, a guardian of goodness and conqueror of evil.

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