Coil

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Coil may refer to:

Science, technology and medicine

• Coil (chemistry), a tube used to cool and condense steam from a distillation
• Electromagnetic coil, formed when a conductor is wound around a core or form to create an inductor or electromagnet
• Intrauterine device or coil, a contraceptive device
• Chemical oxygen iodine laser or COIL
• Coil, a binary digit or bit in some communication protocols such as Modbus
• COIL, the gene that encodes the protein coilin

Music

• Coil (band), an English experimental band
• Coil (album), a 1997 album by Toad the Wet Sprocket
• "Coil", a song by Opeth from Watershed

Other uses

• Coil (hieroglyph), an Egyptian hieratic hieroglyph
• Coiling (pottery), a method of creating pottery
• The Coil, a fictional organization in the G.I. Joe universe
• Magnemite or Coil, a Pokémon character

People with the surname

• Liam Mac Cóil, Irish novelist

See also

• Loop (disambiguation)
• Spiral, a curve which emanates from a central point
• All pages with titles containing coil
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