Nitrous oxide is a colorless, sweet-tasting gas. It is also known as "laughing gas". Continued breathing of the vapors may impair the decision making process. It is noncombustible but it will accelerate the burning of combustible material in a fire. Molecular formula N2O. CAS No. 10024-97-2 (https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/Nitrous-Oxide)
Important polyunsaturated fatty acid found in fish oils. It serves as the precursor for the prostaglandin-3 and thromboxane-3 families. A diet rich in eicosapentaenoic acid lowers serum lipid concentration, reduces incidence of cardiovascular disorders, prevents platelet aggregation, and inhibits arachidonic acid conversion into the thromboxane-2 and prostaglandin-2 families. (MeSH. 2024. Eicosapentaenoic Acid. https://meshb-prev.nlm.nih.gov/record/ui?ui=D015118)
Postharvest diseases referred to as the diseases which occur on harvested plant products that is, fruits, seeds as well as on vegetables. (Shakeel, Qaiser & Shaheen, Muhammad & Ali, Sajjad & Ahmad, Adnan & Raheel, Dr & Bajwa, Rabia. (2022). Postharvest management of fruits and vegetables. 10.1016/B978-0-12-822921-7.00001-5.)
The formation of ATP from ADP and inorganic phosphate using light energy harvested by photosynthesis. (FAO. 2001. Glossary of Biotechnology for Food and Agriculture)
An approach to machine learning in which computers interact with networks of individual units (neurons) that learn by altering their connections to one another over time. (McCulloch, W. S., and Pitts, W. 1943. “A Logical Calculus of the Ideas Immanent in Nervous Activity.” The Bulletin of Mathematical Biophysics 5: 115–133.)
New technology means any invention, discovery, improvement, or innovation, that was not available previously. It can include new processes, emerging technology, machines, and improvements to, or new applications of, existing processes, machines, manufactures and software. (Adapted from https://www.lawinsider.com/dictionary/new-technology)
