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New driver Isack Hadjar crashed in the afternoon in the quick final corner, having just switched from full wet tyres to intermediates.

From BBC • Jan. 30, 2026

Two seconds of that offset can be accounted for by a slower pit stop, the other five by the extra lap on worn intermediates.

From BBC • Jul. 27, 2025

The team used electrocatalysis, a type of chemical reaction initiated by electron transfers to and from reactants on surfaces of catalysts, to convert carbon dioxide into biocompatible intermediates, such as acetate and ethanol.

From Science Daily • Nov. 14, 2024

The researchers also found that on removal of stress, refolding of the partially unfolded intermediates was observed, suggesting regaining of their native states.

From Science Daily • May 30, 2024

We can be almost certain, then, given these assumptions, that two people chosen at random will be linked, as were the strangers on the business trip, by a chain of at most two intermediates.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos