Pfennig The pfennig is a small coin and the minor unit of the Germany currency. Its value was 1/100 of a German mark and other German currencies with the name Mark. The Deutsche Mark Pfennig became obsolete with the introduction of euro coins and notes in 2002.
	PH pH is a measure of the acid of a solution, in terms of Activity of hydrogen ions . For dilute solutions, however, it is convenient to substitute the activity of the hydrogen ions with the molarity of the hydrogen ions . In aqueous systems, the hydrogen ion activity is dictated by the dissociation constant of water and interactions with other ions in solution.
	Phacelia Phacelia is a genus in the family Boraginaceae of about 150 species of herbs, native of Western North America, Eastern U.S.A. and South America. The genus was formerly treated in the separate family Hydrophyllaceae but was transferred by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group to the Boraginaceae on genetic evidence.
	Phaėton In Greek mythology, Phaton or Phaethon, was the son of Helios, or of Clymenus by Merope or Clymene.
	Phaius Phaius is a genus of large, mostly terrestrial orchids. The genus has about 20 species. These species are found in Tropics Asia, into China, Japan, Australia, and west to Africa and Madagascar.
	Phalaenopsis Phalaenopsis is a genus of approximately 60 species of Orchidaceae. The abbreviation in the horticultural trade is Phal.
	Phalaris aquatica Phalaris aquatica, Synonymy P. tuberosa, also known as Harding Grass or bulbous canarygrass, is a species of grass in the genus Phalaris. Varieties include: AQ1, Uneta, and Australis. Leaves and seedlings contain the tryptamine Psychedelics, dissociatives and deliriants Dimethyltryptamine, 5-MeO-DMT and related compounds.
	Phalarope The name Phalarope refers to any of three species of slender-necked Waders in the genus Phalaropus of the bird family Scolopacidae. They are 6–10" in length, with lobed toes and a straight, slender bill. Predominantly grey and white in winter, their plumage develops reddish markings in summer.
	Phallales The Phallales are an order of fungi that is more or less synonymous with the gomphoid-phalloid clade. This group includes the stinkhorns, the earthstars, the coral fungi, and some groups of false truffles, club fungi, and chanterelloid fungi. Category:Basidiomycetes
	Phallus A phallus is an erect penis or the mimesis image of an erect penis. Any object that visually resembles a penis or acts as a symbol for it may also be referred to as a phallus; however, such objects are more correctly referred to as being phallic. Such symbols often represent the fertility and cultural implications that are associated with the male sexual organ.
	Phanerozoic The Phanerozoic Eon_ is the period of Geologic timescale during which abundant animal life has existed. It covers roughly 545 million years and goes back to the time when diverse hard-shelled animals first appeared. The Phanerozoic eon is still ongoing. Its name derives from the Greek meaning visible life, referring to the large size of organisms since the Cambrian explosion.
	Phantom Limb Phantom Limb is a fictional villain on the Adult Swim show The Venture Bros. He is a parody of articulate and "gentlemanly" supervillains, such as Ernst Stavro Blofeld of the James Bond books and films. He bears a strong visual resemblance to the Lee Falk comic strip hero The Phantom and his name is a reference to phantom limb syndrome.
	Phantoms Phantoms is the third album by Great Britain new wave music band The Fixx, released in 1984.
	Pharaoh ant The pharaoh ant is a small yellow, almost transparent ant known for being a major building nuisance pest, especially in hospitals. The origin of this 'tramp' ant is uncertain, although favoured alternatives include West Africa and Indonesia. The Pharaoh ant has been introduced to virtually every area of the world including Europe, the Americas, Australasia and Southeast Asia.
	Pharmacist Pharmacists are health professionals who practice the art and science of pharmacy. In their traditional role, pharmacists typically take a request for medicines from a physician in the form of a medical prescription and dispense the medication to the patient and counsel them on the proper use and adverse effects of that medication.
	Pharmacopoeia * European Pharmacopoeia * United States Pharmacopoeia * The International Pharmacopoeia This article is based on a 1911 encyclopaedia. Category:Books Category:History of medicine ca:Farmacopea da:Farmakope de:Arzneibuch es:Farmacopea fr:Pharmacope
	Pharmacy Pharmacy is a transitional field between health sciences and chemistrys and a profession charged with ensuring the safe use of medication. Traditionally, pharmacists have compounded and dispensed medications on the orders of physicians. More recently, pharmacy has come to include other services related to patient care including clinical practice, medication review, and drug information.
	Pharyngeal consonant A pharyngeal consonant is a type of consonant which is articulated with the root of the tongue against the pharynx. Pharyngeal consonants in the International Phonetic Alphabet: * Pharyngeal Stop consonant are thought to be impossible. Note that when they are posited, they are sometimes transcribed with a small capital cue, [Q].
	Phascogale The Phascogales, also known as Wambengers, are carnivorous Australian marsupials of the family Dasyuridae. There are two species; the Brush-tailed Phascogale and the Red-tailed Phascogale. As with a number of dasyurid species, the males live for only one year, dying after a period of frenzied mating.
	Phascolarctos The genus Phascolarctos consists of 3 species, of which only one is alive today. The largest species was P. stirtoni that lived in the Pleistocene epoch. Giant Koala species are known only from fossils found in the Lake Eyre and Tarkarooloo basins of South Australia. Not much is known of the P.
	Phase modulation Phase modulation is a form of modulation which represents information as variations in the instantaneous phase of a carrier wave. Unlike its more popular counterpart, frequency modulation , PM is not very widely used This is because it tends to require more complex receiving hardware and there can be ambiguity problems with determining whether, for example, the signal has 0degree phase or 180 phase.
	Phase space In mathematics and physics, phase space is the space in which all possible states of a system are represented, with each possible state of the system corresponding to one unique point in the phase space. For classical mechanics, the phase space usually consists of all possible values of position and momentum variables.
	Phaseolus Phaseolus is a genus in the family Fabaceae of about fifty plant species, all native to the Americas. At least four of the species have been domestication since pre-Columbian times for their beans. Most prominent among these is the common bean, P.
	Phasmatodea Phasmatodea is an order of insects, whose members are variously known as stick insects, walking sticks, ghost insects and leaf insects. The name is derived from the Greek "phasma" meaning an apparition or phantom, and refers to the cryptic appearance and mimetic behavior of these insects.
	Pheasant Pheasants are a group of large birds in the order Galliformes. In many countries they are hunted as Game . Pheasant are characterised by strong sexual dimorphism, with males being highly ornate with bright colours and adornments such as wattles and long tails.
	Phegopteris Phegopteris is a genus of ferns known collectively as the Beech ferns. Traditionally this genus included only the first three species listed. However, recent genetic evidence clearly shows that the genera Macrothelypteris and Pseudophegopteris, as well as other segregate from the genus Thelypteris, are closely related to Phegopteris in a single cladistics, and so are now included as Phegopteris species.
	Phellodendron Phellodendron or Cork-tree, is a genus of deciduous trees in the family Rutaceae, native to east and northeast Asia. It has leathery, pinnate leaf, yellow clumped flowers. The name refers to the thick and corky bark of some species in the genus.
	Phenacetin Phenacetin, introduced in 1887, is used principally as an analgesic. Typical doses of 300mg to 500mg a day result in an analgesic effect. Its analgesic effects are due to its actions on the sensory tracts of the spinal cord. In addition, phenacetin has a depressant action of the heart, where it acts as a negative inotrope.
	Phencyclidine Phencyclidine , abbreviated PCP, is a Dissociative drug drug formerly used as an anesthesia agent, exhibiting hallucinogenic and neurotoxic effects. PCP was commercially developed in the 1950s by the Parke-Davis pharmaceutical company. PCP is listed as a Schedule II drug in the United States under the Convention on Psychotropic Substances.
	Phenelzine Phenelzine is a monoamine oxidase inhibitor used as an antidepressant Medication.
	Phenobarbital Phenobarbital or phenobarbitone is a barbiturate, first marketed as Luminal® by Bayer. It is the most widely used anticonvulsant worldwide and the oldest still in use. It also has sedative and hypnotic properties but, as with other barbiturates, has been superseded by the benzodiazepines for these indications.
	Phenol Phenol, also known under an older name of carbolic acid, is a colorless crystalline solid with a typical sweet tarry odor. Its chemical formula is Carbon6Hydrogen5OxygenHydrogen and its structure is that of a hydroxyl Functional group chemical bond to a phenyl ring; it is thus an Simple aromatic ring.
	Phenolphthalein Phenolphthalein is a sensitive pH pH indicator with the formula C20H14O4. Often used in titrations, it turns from colorless in acidic solutions to pink in base solutions. If the concentration of indicator is particularly strong, it can appear purple.
	Phenols In organic chemistry, phenols, sometimes called phenolics, are a class of chemical compounds consisting of a hydroxyl Functional group attached to an aromatic hydrocarbon group. The simplest of the class is phenol . Although similar to alcohols, phenols have unique properties and are not classified as alcohols .
	Phenothiazine Phenothiazine is a pesticide and industrial chemical used in pharmaceutical manufacturing. It is sometimes used as an antihelminthic. It was introduced by DuPont as an insecticide in 1935. It is now most commonly used as an intermediate chemical in the manufacture of various psychiatry drugs.
	Phensuximide Phensuximide is an anticonvulsant in the succinimide class. External links*
	Phentolamine Phentolamine is a Competitive antagonist nonselective Adrenergic receptor Receptor antagonist antihypertensive drug. Its primary action is vasodilation. The primary application for phentolamine is for the control of hypertensive emergency, most notably due to phaeochromocytoma.
	Phenylalanine Phenylalanine is an Essential amino acid alpha-amino acid. It exists in two forms, a dextro and an levo form, which are enantiomers of each other. It has a benzyl side chain. Its name comes from its chemical structures consisting of a phenyl group substituted for one of the hydrogens in the side chain of alanine.
	Phenylbutazone Phenylbutazone, often referred to as bute, is a crystalline substance having the structure shown at right. * Structural name: 4-butyl-1,2-diphenyl-3,5-pyrazolidinedione * Chemical formula: C19H20N2O2 Oxyphenbutazone, the major metabolite of phenylbutazone, differs only in the arene substitution patterns location of one of its phenyl groups, where a hydrogen atom is replaced by a hydroxyl group-2-phenyl-3,5-pyrazolidinedione).
	Phenylephrine Phenylephrine or neosynephrine is an a-adrenergic receptor agonist used primarily as a decongestant, as an agent to dilate the pupil, and rarely to increase blood pressure.
	Phenylketonuria In Greek mythology, Prometheus, or Satan' is the Titan chiefly honored for stealing fire from the deity in the stalk of a fennel plant and giving it to human being for their use.
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	Phenytoin Phenytoin sodium is a commonly used antiepileptic. It was approved by the Food and Drug Administration in 1953 for use in seizures. Phenytoin acts to damp the unwanted, runaway brain activity seen in seizure by reducing electrical conductance among brain cells. History
	Pheromone A pheromone is any chemical or set of chemicals produced by a living organism that transmits a message to other members of the same species. There are alarm pheromones, food trail pheromones, sex pheromones, and many others that affect behavior or physiology. Their use among insects has been particularly well documented, although many vertebrates and plants also communicate using pheromones.
	Phidias Phidias, son of Charmides, was an ancient history Hellenic civilization sculpture, universally regarded as the greatest of all Classical sculptors. Phidias designed the towering statues of the goddess Athena on the Athens Acropolis, Athens and the colossal seated Statue of Zeus at Olympia in the 5th century BC.
	Philately Philately is the study of revenue stamp or postage stamps. This includes the design, production and uses of stamps after they are issued by Postal Authorities. Although many equate it with stamp collecting, it is a distinct activity. For instance, philatelists will study extremely rare stamps without expecting to own copies of them, whether because of cost, or because the sole survivors are in museums.
	Philibert de l'Orme Philibert de l'Orme was a France architect, one of the great masters of the Renaissance. He was born at Lyon, the son of Jehan de l'Orme, who practised the same art and brought his son up to it. At an early age Philibert was sent to Italy to study and was employed there by Pope Paul III.
	Philip II of Macedon Philip II of Macedon was the Kings of Macedon from 359 BC until his assassination. He was the father of Alexander the Great and Philip III of Macedon.
	Philip II of Spain Philip II was the first official King of Spain from 1556 until 1598, List of monarchs of Naples and Sicily from 1554 until 1598, King of England from 1554 to 1558, King of Portugal from 1580 until 1598 and Reino de Chile from 1554 until 1556.
	Philip Marlowe Philip Marlowe is a fictional Private investigator created by Raymond Chandler in a series of detective novels including The Big Sleep and The Long Goodbye. Marlowe first appeared in The Big Sleep, published in 1939. Marlowe appeared in none of Chandler's early short stories, though many of his early stories were republished years later with the names of the protagonists changed to Philip Marlowe; this change was presumably made with the approval of Chandler.
	Philip Roth Philip Milton Roth is an United States novelist. He is perhaps best known for his 1959 collection Goodbye, Columbus, his 1969 novel Portnoy's Complaint, and for his late-'90s trilogy comprising the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction-winning American Pastoral, I Married a Communist, and The Human Stain.
	Philip Warren Anderson Philip Warren Anderson is a US theoretical physics. Anderson has made contributions to the theories of Anderson localization, antiferromagnetism and high-temperature superconductivity.
	Philipp Lenard Philipp Eduard Anton von Lenard, was a German physicist and the winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1905 for his research on cathode rays and the discovery of many of their properties.
	Philipp Melanchthon Philipp Melanchthon was a German professor and theologian, a key leader of the Lutheran Reformation, and a friend and associate of Martin Luther.
	Philippi Philippi was a city in eastern Macedonia , founded by Philip II of Macedon in 356 BC and abandoned in the 14th century after the Ottoman Empire conquest. The present municipality Filippoi is located near the ruins.
	Philippine peso The Philippine peso is the official currency of the Philippines. Since the Philippine peso uses the decimal system, it is divided into 100 centavos. Its ISO 4217 code is "PHP". The Philippines is one of a handful of countries formerly colonized by Spain that use the peso as their currencies, joining countries such as Mexico, Colombia and Argentina.
	Philippine Sea The Philippine Sea is a part of the western Pacific Ocean bordered by the Philippines and Taiwan to the west, Japan to the north, the Marianas to the east and Palau to the south. The Philippine Plate forms the floor of this sea and it subducts under the Eurasian Plate which formed the Philippine archipelago.
	Philippines The Philippines , officially the Republic of the Philippines , is an island nation located in the Malay archipelago in Southeast Asia, with Manila as its capital. It comprises 7,107 islands called the Philippine Archipelago, with a total land area of approximately 300,000 square kilometers or 116,000 square miles.
	Philips Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. , usually known as Philips, is one of the largest electronics companies in the world. In 2004, its sales were euro 30.3 1000000000 and it employed 159,709 people in more than 60 countries. Philips is organized in a number of divisions: Philips Consumer Electronics, Philips Semiconductors, Philips Lighting, Philips Medical Systems and Philips Domestic Appliances and Personal Care.
	Philistines The historic Philistines were a nation who inhabited the southern coast of Canaan around the time of the arrival of the Israelites, their territory being named Philistia in later contexts. Their origin has been debated among scholars, but modern archaeology has suggested early cultural links with the Mycenaean Greece world in mainland Greece.
	Phillis Wheatley Phillis Wheatley , was the first African American female writer to be published in the United States. Her book Poems on Various Subjects was published in 1773, two years before the American Revolutionary War began, and is seen as one of the first examples of African American literature.
	Philodendron Philodendron Heinrich Wilhelm Schott 1832, is a large genus of flowering plants from the arum family, consisting of 700 or more species. Taxonomically it is still poorly known with many undescribed species. Many are grown as ornamental and indoor plants. The name derives from the Greek philo or "love" and dendron or "tree".
	Philosophy Category:Philosophy articles needing attention Philosophy is a field of study that includes diverse subfields such as aesthetics, epistemology, ethics, logic, and metaphysics, in which people ask questions such as whether God exists, what is the nature of reality, whether knowledge is possible, and what makes actions ethics.
	Phlebotomus Phlebotomus is a genus of "sand fly" in the Dipteran family Psychodidae. In the past, they have sometimes been considered to belong in a separate family, Phlebotomidae, but this alternative classification has not gained wide acceptancethe Old World, Phlebotomus sand flies are primarily responsible for the transmission of leishmaniasis, an important parasitic disease, while transmission in the New World, is generally via sand flies of the genus Lutzomyia. The protozoan para
	Phleum Phleum is a genus of about 15 species of annual plant and perennial plant Poaceae. The genus is native to Europe, Asia and north Africa, with one species also in North America and South America. They are tufted grasses growing to 20-150 cm tall, with cylindrical flowerheads with densely packed spikelets.
	Phlogopite Phlogopite is a yellow, greenish or reddish brown member of the mica family of Silicate minerals. It is also known as magnesium mica.
	Phlomis Phlomis is a genus of about 100 species of herbaceous plants, subshrubs and shrubs in the family Lamiaceae, native from the Mediterranean region east across central Asia to China. Common names include Jerusalem Sage and Lampwick Plant. The overall size varies between species from 30 cm tall up to 2 m tall.
	Phlox Phlox is a genus of 67 species of Annual plant or perennial flowering plants that flower in early Spring. They are native mainly to temperate North America, with a few species in northeastern Asia. Phlox range in color from pale blue to bright red to white.
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	Phoca Phoca is a genus of the Earless Seals, within the Phocidae.