Intercalation may refer to:
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Intercalation (chemistry)
In chemistry, intercalation is the reversible inclusion or insertion of a molecule (or ion) into layered materials with layered structures. Examples are found in graphite and transition metal dichalcogenides.
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Examples Graphite
One famous int ...
, insertion of a molecule (or ion) into layered solids such as graphite
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Intercalation (timekeeping)
Intercalation or embolism in timekeeping is the insertion of a leap day, week, or month into some calendar years to make the calendar follow the seasons or moon phases. Lunisolar calendars may require intercalations of both days and months. ...
, insertion of a leap day, week or month into some calendar years to make the calendar follow the seasons
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Intercalation (university administration), period when a student is officially given time off from studying for an academic degree
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Intercalation (geology), a special form of interbedding, where two distinct depositional environments in close spatial proximity migrate back and forth across the border zone
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Intercalary chapter An intercalary chapter (also called an inner chapter, inserted chapter, or interchapter) is a chapter in a novel or novella that is relevant to the theme, but does not involve the main characters or further the plot. Intercalary chapters often tak ...
, a chapter in a novel that does not further the plot. See also
frame story
A frame is often a structural system that supports other components of a physical construction and/or steel frame that limits the construction's extent.
Frame and FRAME may also refer to:
Physical objects
In building construction
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(sometimes called intercalation).
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Intercalary segment, an appendage-less segment in the segmental composition of the heads of insects and Myriapoda
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Intercalation (biochemistry)
In biochemistry, intercalation is the insertion of molecules between the planar bases of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA). This process is used as a method for analyzing DNA and it is also the basis of certain kinds of poisoning.
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, process discovered by Leonard Lerman by which certain drugs and mutagens insert themselves between base pairs of DNA
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Intercalated cells of the amygdala
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Intercalated cells
The collecting duct system of the kidney consists of a series of tubules and ducts that physically connect nephrons to a minor calyx or directly to the renal pelvis. The collecting duct system is the last part of nephron and participates in ele ...
of the collecting duct
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Intercalated disc of cardiac muscle
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Intercalated duct of exocrine glands
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