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Yukawa
- noun - Japanese mathematical physicist who proposed that nuclear forces are mediated by massive particles called mesons which are analogous to the photon in mediating electromagnetic forces (1907-1981)
Yunnan
- noun - a province of southern China
Yuppie
- noun - a young upwardly mobile professional individual; a well-paid middle-class professional who works in a city and has a luxurious life style
Z-Axis
- noun - the third axis in a 3-dimensional coordinate system
Zabrze
- noun - an industrial city in southern Poland
Zachun
- - An oil pressed by the Arabs from the fruit of a small thorny tree (Balanites Aegyptiaca), and sold to piligrims for a healing ointment.
Zaffer
- - A pigment obtained, usually by roasting cobalt glance with sand or quartz, as a dark earthy powder. It consists of crude cobalt oxide, or of an impure cobalt arseniate. It is used in porcelain painting, and in enameling pottery, to produce a blue color, and is often confounded with smalt, from which, however, it is distinct, as it contains no potash. The name is often loosely applied to mixtures of zaffer proper with silica, or oxides of iron, manganese, etc.