Dark elves (Warhammer)

Dark current (disambiguation)

Dark energy star

Bolomys obscurus

Artibeus fuliginosus

Dark horse candidate

Dark chords on a big guitar

Dark fermentation is the fermentative conversion of organic substrate to biohydrogen. It is a complex process manifested by diverse groups of bacteria, involving a series of biochemical reactions using three steps similar to anaerobic conversion. Dark fermentation differs from photofermentation in that it proceeds without the presence of light.Fermentative/hydrolytic microorganisms hydrolyze complex organic polymers to monomers which are further converted to a mixture of lower-molecular-weight organic acids and alcohols by obligatory producing acidogenic bacteria.Utilization of wastewater as a potential substrate for biohydrogen production has been drawing considerable interest in recent years especially in the dark fermentation process. Industrial wastewater as a fermentative substrate for H2 production addresses most of the criteria required for substrate selection viz., availability, cost and biodegradability (Angenent, et al., 2004; Kapdan and Kargi, 2006). Chemical wastewater (Venkata Mohan, et al., 2007a,b), cattle wastewater (Tang, et al., 2008), dairy process wastewater (Venkata Mohan, et al. 2007c, Rai et al. 2012), starch hydrolysate wastewater (Chen, et al., 2008) and designed synthetic wastewater (Venkata Mohan, et al., 2007a, 2008b) have been reported to produce biohydrogen apart from wastewater treatment from dark fermentation processes using selectively enriched mixed cultures under acidophilic conditions. Various wastewaters viz., paper mill wastewater (Idania, et al., 2005), starch effluent (Zhang, et al., 2003), food processing wastewater (Shin et al., 2004, van Ginkel, et al., 2005), domestic wastewater (Shin, et al., 2004, 2008e), rice winery wastewater (Yu et al., 2002), distillery and molasses based wastewater (Ren, et al., 2007, Venkata Mohan, et al., 2008a), wheat straw wastes (Fan, et al., 2006) and palm oil mill wastewater (Vijayaraghavan and Ahmed, 2006) have been studied as fermentable substrates for H2 production along with wastewater treatment. Using wastewater as a fermentable substrate facilitates both wastewater treatment apart from H2 production. The efficiency of the dark fermentative H2 production process was found to depend on pre-treatment of the mixed consortia used as a biocatalyst, operating pH, and organic loading rate apart from wastewater characteristics (Venkata Mohan, et al., 2007d, 2008c, d, Vijaya Bhaskar, et al., 2008d).In spite of its advantages, the main challenge observed with fermentative H2 production processes is the relatively low energy conversion efficiency from the organic source. Typical H2 yields range from 1 to 2 mol of H2/mol of glucose, which results in 80-90% of the initial COD remaining in the wastewater in the form of various volatile organic acids (VFAs) and solvents, such as acetic acid, propionic acid, butyric acid, and ethanol. Even under optimal conditions about 60-70% of the original organic matter remains in solution. Bioaugmentation with selectively enriched acidogenic consortia to enhance H2 production was also reported (Venkata Mohan, et al., 2007b). Generation and accumulation of soluble acid metabolites causes a sharp drop in the system pH and inhibits the H2 production process. Usage of unutilized carbon sources present in acidogenic process for additional biogas production sustains the practical applicability of the process. One way to utilize/recover the remaining organic matter in a usable form is to produce additional H2 by terminal integration of photo-fermentative processes of H2 production (Venkata Mohan, et al. 2008e, Rai et al. 2012) and methane by integrating acidogenic processes to terminal methanogenic processes.

In astronomy and cosmology, dark fluid is an alternative theory to both dark matter and dark energy and attempts to explain both phenomena in a single framework.Dark fluid proposes that dark matter and dark energy are not separate physical phenomena as previously thought, nor do they have separate origins, but that they are strongly linked together and can be considered as two facets of a single fluid.

Dark fruit-tree tortrix

Dark mealworm beetle

Dark is the Moon

Dark flight

N. obscurus

Dark forces 2

Dark Current Spectroscopy is a technique that is used to determine contaminants in silicon.

Dark hummingbird hawkmoth

Dark creeper

Dark is Rising (film)

Insecta

Dark fluid theory

Dark engine

Dark ghost shark

Dark lady sonnets

Darreh Barik (Persian: دره باريك‎‎, also Romanized as Darreh Bārīk) is a village in Hati Rural District, Hati District, Lali County, Khuzestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 73, in 15 families.

Dark deepwater snake-eel

Dark leaf sitter

Dark frame

Dark creeper (Dungeons & Dragons)

Female, Elsenborn, Belgium

S. ugoi

Acronicta tridens

Dark gems

Dark footed ant spider

Print

Dark markets

Dark light

Dark eyes

Dark kite-swallowtail

Dark mild

Ophichthus

Dark kahn

The dark fruit-eating bat (Artibeus obscurus), is a bat species from South America.

Dark matter direct detection

Dark days in paradise

Argynnis

Necromys obscurus

Darling Nikki

Dark leader

Dark furry epitola

Dark camera

Dark market

The dark deepwater snake-eel (Ophichthus aphotistos) is an eel in the family Ophichthidae. It was described by John E. McCosker and Chen Yu-Yun in 2000. It is a marine, deep water-dwelling eel which is known from Taiwan, in the northwestern Pacific Ocean. It dwells at a depth range of 36-1350 m (most commonly 250-350 m), and inhabits sand and mud. Specimens have been observed in burrows with only their heads exposed, or resting on sediment with their bodies curved in an S shape.

Dark deepwater Snake-eel

Artibeus jamaicensis fuliginosus

The dark dagger (Acronicta tridens) is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is distributed throughout Europe (from southern Fennoscandia to the Balkans and Italy), Turkey, the Near East, the European part of Russia, southern Siberia, the Ural, the Russian Far East (Primorye, southern Khabarovsk, southern Amur region and Sakhalin), the Korean Peninsula, China and Japan (Hokkaido).This species has grey forewings marked with bold black "daggers". The hindwings of the males are white, those of the females dirty grey. The wingspan is 35–43 mm. Adults of this species are extremely similar to the grey dagger (Acronicta psi). Despite the common name, the dark dagger is usually the paler of the two species and the white hindwings of the male are usually diagnostic. However, the only reliable way of distinguishing adults of the two species is by examination of the genitalia. The larvae, however, are very different (see below). This species flies at night in June and July [1] and is attracted to light and sometimes to sugar.The larva is black, marked with red and white stripes, without the bold yellow markings and prominent horn of the larva of the grey dagger. It feeds on a variety of plants (see list below). This species overwinters as a pupa, sometimes spending two winters in this form.^ The flight season refers to the British Isles. This may vary in other parts of the range.

Dark flying fox

Dark chocolate chips

Dark midnight blue

Artibeus obscurus

Dark forest swift

Dark electro

Dark magick

Dark is the Moon is the third novel in The View from the Mirror quartet, by Ian Irvine.

Dark bush-cricket

Dark current spectroscopy

Dark finned conger-Eel

Dark industrial is the marriage of dark ambient music and industrial music. Much like dark ambient, the style is a minimalist soundscape. What separates dark ambient from dark industrial is the harshness. The droning and distorted samples of dark ambient are replaced by waves of static and eerie melodies.

Dark galaxy (astronomy)

Dark meat (poultry)

Animalia

Dark lord of the sith Darth Revan

دره باريك

A dark matter halo is a hypothetical component of a galaxy that envelops the galactic disc and extends well beyond the edge of the visible galaxy. The halo's mass dominates the total mass. Since they consist of dark matter, halos cannot be observed directly, but their existence is inferred through their effects on the motions of stars and gas in galaxies. Dark matter halos play a key role in current models of galaxy formation and evolution.

Dark finned conger Eel

Dark freckled catshark

Dark cabaret (music genre)

Dark cell

Dark horse (disambiguation)

Dark current (chemistry)

Dark compact

Dark lanthorn

Dark magic

Female of Pholidoptera griseoaptera

Dark creeper (Dungeons and Dragons)

IUCN3.1

Dark fishing spider

O. aphotistos

Dark deepwater Snake eel

Dark deepwater Snake-Eel

Dark lord of derkholm

Necromys

A dark fibre (or dark fiber) or unlit fibre is an unused optical fibre, available for use in fibre-optic communication.The term dark fibre was originally used when referring to the potential network capacity of telecommunication infrastructure, but now also refers to the increasingly common practice of leasing fibre optic cables from a network service provider, or, generally, to the fibre installations not owned or controlled by traditional carriers. In common vernacular, dark fibre may sometimes still be called "dark" if it has been lit by a fibre lessee and not the cable's owner.A dark fibre network or simply dark network is a privately operated optical fiber network that is run directly by its operator over dark fibre leased or purchased from another supplier. This is in contrast to purchasing bandwidth or leased line capacity on an existing network. Dark fibre networks may be used for private networking, or as Internet access or infrastructure.

Darmstadt Artist's Colony

The dark kangaroo mouse (Microdipodops megacephalus) is a species of rodent in the family Heteromyidae. It is found in California, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon and Utah in the United States.

Dark coral

Dark matches

Dark light (vision)

Dark green vegetable

Acronicta

Prince

McCosker & Chen, 2000

Darling Of The Day

Dark crystal 2

Dark justice

Dark deepwater snake eel

Dark continent

Dark halo

Dark long-tongued bat

Dark child

auto

Thomas, 1895

Dark fence

Dark matter (fiction)

Dark brown playboy

Dark carnival(song)

Dark hunter

Dark forces

First edition cover

Dark cutter

Dark brown missile

Dark hottentot

Dark cerulean

Dark line blue

Dark bosse

Dark media

Dark finned Conger Eel

Dark mealworm

Dark industrial

Dark lagers

Dark carnival (song)

Dark dungeons

Dark flight (astronomy)

Dark folk

The dark green fritillary (Argynnis aglaja) is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. The insect has a wide range in the Palearctic ecozone - Europe, Morocco, Iran, Siberia, Central Asia, China, Korea and Japan.

Dark fiber network

Dark fruit-eating bat

L. obscura

Dark matter problem

The dark long-tongued bat (Lichonycteris obscura) is a bat species from South and Central America. It is monotypic within the genus Lichonycteris.

Darreh Barm Shir-e Lishtar (Persian: دره برم شير ليشتر‎‎, also Romanized as Darreh Barm Shīr-e Līshtar) is a village in Lishtar Rural District, in the Central District of Gachsaran County, Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its existence was noted, but its population was not reported.

Dark headed aspen leafroller moth

Merriam, 1891

Dark matter galaxies

Dark electronic

Sound of Pholidoptera griseoaptera

Pholidoptera griseoaptera - sound.oga

Dark kangaroo mouse

Dark meteorite

Darreh Barik

Dark blue tiger

Male, Val d'Aosta, Italy

Dark dot disease

Dark heart of dunwich

Dark jezebel

Dark elves

Dark chamber

Darker Than the Night

Dark headed aspen Leafroller Moth

Dark knight film

Dark dagger

Dark finned conger-eel

Wied-Neuwied, 1826

Mammalia

Dark elfin

"Computer Blue"

Dark matter halo

Dark comet

Lichonycteris

Dark millet

Dark branded swift

Dark matter behavior

Dark knight (ride)

Dark is the Way, Light is a Place

Arthropoda

Dark continent (disambiguation)

Dark magic (disambiguation)

Dark dune spots

Dark matter in fiction

Dark heart of Dunwich

Dark ciliate blue

Dark elves (disambiguation)

Dark latin groove

Dark messiah of might and magic

Dark day in the deep sea

Dark darter

A. obscurus

Darreh Barm Shir-e Lishtar

Dark hunger

Dark fermentation is the fermentative conversion of organic substrate to biohydrogen. It is a complex process manifested by diverse groups of bacteria, involving a series of biochemical reactions using three steps similar to anaerobic conversion.

Dark comedies

Scyliorhinus ugoi

Dark garage

Dark circles under the eyes

Dark lord (beer)

Dark cells are specialized nonsensory epithelial cells found on either side of the vestibular organs, and lining the endolymphatic space. These dark-cell areas in the vestibular organ are structures involved in the production of endolymph, an inner ear fluid, secreting potassium towards the endolymphatic fluid. Dark cells take part in fluid homeostasis to preserve the unique high-potassium and low-sodium content of the endolymph and also maintain the calcium homeostasis of the inner ear.Morphological and immunohistochemical studies in several species have indicated that these dark cell areas also form a single layer resting on top of pigmented cells at the base of the cristae ampullaris in the semi-circular canals and around the utricular macula.

Dark force

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Dark brown

Dark center of the universe

Dark headed Aspen leafroller moth

Pholidoptera

Dark elves in fiction

village

Dark fibre network

Dark body

The dark deepwater snake-eel (Ophichthus aphotistos) is an eel in the family Ophichthidae. It was described by John E. McCosker and Chen Yu-Yun in 2000. It is a marine, deep water-dwelling eel which is known from Taiwan, in the northwestern Pacific Ocean. It dwells at a depth range of 36-1350 m (most commonly 250-350 m), and inhabits sand and mud. Specimens have been observed in burrows with only their heads exposed, or resting on sediment with their bodies curved in an S shape. Females can reach a maximum total length of 62.8 cm.The specific epithet aphotistos, meaning dark or obscure, refers both to the eel's appearance and its habitat.

Dark magician

Dark cloud

Dark jak

Dark green (X11)

Dark gravity

Dark lantern

Dark is the Night for All

Dark edged snow flat

Dark match (professional wrestling)

Dark jewel sapphire

Dark finned Conger-Eel

Dark class fast patrol boat

Dark cep

Dark chocolate chip

Dark leaved willow

Dark galaxies

Argynnis aglaja

Dark lady

LR/lc

Dark enlightenment

Dark grass blue

Dark gem staff

Dark election

Dark matter is defined as hypothetical matter that is undetectable by its emitted radiation, but whose presence can be inferred from gravitational effects on visible matter. It has been used in a variety of fictional media, including computer and video games and books. In such cases, dark matter is usually attributed extraordinary physical or magical properties. Such descriptions are often inconsistent with the known properties of dark matter proposed in physics and cosmology. For example in computer games, it is often used as material for making weapons and items, and is usually depicted as black or a similar color.Dark matter regularly appears as a topic in hybrid periodicals that cover both factual scientific topics and science fiction, and dark matter itself has been referred to as "the stuff of science fiction". A review of The Physics of Star Trek discusses dark matter before noting that "the best modern science fiction borrows heavily from cosmology".

Dark elf

The Dark budgerigar mutation is one of approximately 30 mutations affecting the colour of budgerigars. It is part of the genetic constitution of the following recognised varieties: Dark Green and Olive in the green series and Cobalt, Mauve and Violet in the blue series.

Dark headed Aspen Leafroller moth

Dark lord chuckles the silly piggy

"When Doves Cry"

Dark desire

Microdipodops

Dark messiah of might and magic: elements

Dark deepwater Snake Eel

Darker diacme Moth

Dark clouded yellow

Dark bolo mouse

Dark lord of the sith

Dark bossé

"Darling Nikki" is a song produced, arranged, composed and performed by American musician Prince and originally released on his Grammy Award-winning 1984 album, Purple Rain. Though the song was not released as a single, it gained wide notoriety for its sexual lyrics and in particular a reference to masturbation.

Dark is the sun

Dark ell

The dark dagger (Acronicta tridens) is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is distributed throughout Europe (from southern Fennoscandia to the Balkans and Italy), Turkey, the Near East, the European part of Russia, southern Siberia, the Ural, the Russian Far East (Primorye, southern Khabarovsk, southern Amur region and Sakhalin), the Korean Peninsula, China and Japan (Hokkaido).This species has grey forewings marked with bold black "daggers".

Dark headed aspen Leafroller moth

Dark fluid

Dark guest ant

Elves, a word from Germanic mythology, are frequently featured in Fantasy fiction. In modern fiction, particularly because of the influence from J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, elves are modeled mostly after his original description: tall, human-like creatures of otherworldly beauty, with Kings and Queens.

Dark cells are specialized nonsensory epithelial cells found on either side of the vestibular organs, and lining the endolymphatic space. These dark-cell areas in the vestibular organ are structures involved in the production of endolymph, an inner ear fluid, secreting potassium towards the endolymphatic fluid.

In analytical chemistry, dark current refers to the constant response produced by a spectrochemical receptor, even in the absence of radiation. This response adds to the signal produced when the receptor is used to measure light and so must be dealt with to determine how much of the detector response is actually due to the radiation.

Dark internet

Dark dungeon

Dark humour

Dark moon (disambiguation)

Field recording in the Netherlands 33s

Dark headed aspen leafroller Moth

Dark island castle

Dark green

A. aglaja

Dark fall: The journal

Dark boo

Dark deepwater snake Eel

Dark flocculi

Dark globular cluster is a proposed type of globular star clusters that has an unusually high mass for the amount of stars within it. Proposed in 2015 on the basis of observational data, dark globular clusters are believed to be populated by objects with significant dark matter components, such as central massive black holes.

Dark is the moon

The dark bolo mouse or dark-furred akodont (Necromys obscurus) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. There are two subspecies; one (ssp. scagliarum) is found in eastern and central parts of Buenos Aires Province, Argentina, and the other (ssp. obscurus) in coastal areas of southern Uruguay.

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Dark electro house

Dark headed Aspen leafroller Moth

In astronomy and cosmology, dark fluid is an alternative theory to both dark matter and dark energy and attempts to explain both phenomena in a single framework.Dark fluid proposes that dark matter and dark energy are not separate physical phenomena as previously thought, nor do they have separate origins, but that they are strongly linked together and can be considered as two facets of a single fluid. At galactic scales, the dark fluid behaves like dark matter, and at larger scales its behavior becomes similar to dark energy. Our observations within the scales of the Earth and the Solar System are currently insufficient to explain the gravitational effects observed at such larger scales.

Dark fiber

Dark deepwater snake-Eel

Dark matter star

Dark headed Aspen Leafroller Moth

Dark goosefoot

Dark light (disambiguation)

The dark bush-cricket (Pholidoptera griseoaptera) is a flightless species of bush-cricket.

Darkwarrior

Dark columbine

Dark chanting-goshawk

Ophichthus aphotistos

IUCN2.3

Dark green environmentalism

دره برم شير ليشتر

Dark l

Dark chestnut

Dark budgerigar mutation

Dark crusade

Dark media are a type of media outlined by American philosopher Eugene Thacker.

Dark globular cluster

Dark matter galaxy

Dark cutting

Dark comedy

Dark messiah

Dark heresy

Dark gate

Darreh Barik, Lali

Dark Faced Burnished Ware or DFBW is the earliest form of pottery developed in the western world.It was produced after the earliest examples from the independent phenomenon of the Jōmon culture in Japan and is predominantly found at archaeological sites in Lebanon, Israel southwest Syria and Cyprus. Some notable examples of Dark Faced Burnished Ware were found at Tell Judaidah (and nearby Tell Dhahab) in Amuq by Robert Braidwood as well as at Ras Shamra and Tell Boueid. Other finds have been made at Yumuktepe in Mersin, Turkey where comparative studies were made defining different categories of ware that have been generally grouped as DFBW. It is thought to have come as a development of White Ware and takes its name from the often dark coloured choice of clays from which it is made. Vessels are often coarse, tempered with grit or sand, burnished to a shiny finish and made with a variety of clays in different areas. The grit or sand is thought to have made the vessels easier to fire and the burnishing made them less permeable and suitable for heated liquid substances. Later examples are usually finer and more carefully burnished and decorated. Designs included rounded, inverted or straight sided bowls with plain rims, some with basic handles under the rims along with ring bases in the later pieces. Decorations included incised or impressed chevrons or motifs with pattern burnishing appearing in later periods. Other types of pottery were produced around the same time including coarse impressed ware, dark faced unburnished ware and washed impressed ware but these were less prevalent.DFBW has long been considered the forebear of the more polished examples such as Ancient Greek pottery.

A. tridens

Dark eye

Dark glasses

Dark Fruit-eating Bat range

Rodentia

Dark fibre

Scyliorhinus ugoi, also known as the Dark freckled catshark is a catshark of the family Scyliorhinidae. It is found in Northeastern and Southeastern Brazil. This species differs from Scyliorhinus besnardi, Scyliorhinus haeckelii group and Scyliorhinus hesperius, in background coloration, head width, sexual maturity, and in cranial and body proportions.

P. griseoaptera

Dark broken-band oakblue

Dark green fritillary

Dark current (biochemistry)

Dark crystal

Dark frame subtraction

Dark knight 2

A dark fibre (or dark fiber) or unlit fibre is an unused optical fibre, available for use in fibre-optic communication.The term dark fibre was originally used when referring to the potential network capacity of telecommunication infrastructure, but now also refers to the increasingly common practice of leasing fibre optic cables from a network service provider, or, generally, to the fibre installations not owned or controlled by traditional carriers.

Darmstadt Artists Colony

Dark grass-brown

Dark fermentation

Dark blue royal

Dark lords of the sith

Dark knight (disambiguation)

Dark lager

Dark dawn

Dark finned Conger eel

Lichonycteris obscura

Darood Sharif

In analytical chemistry, dark current refers to the constant response produced by a spectrochemical receptor, even in the absence of radiation. This response adds to the signal produced when the receptor is used to measure light and so must be dealt with to determine how much of the detector response is actually due to the radiation. To compensate for this extra signal, the dark current may be measured in the absence of radiation and then subtracted from the final signal or reduced to zero by a compensating circuit. Dealing with dark current is a form of blank correction.

Dark eyed Junco

*Decticus apterus
*Gryllus cinereus Gmelin, 1789
*Locusta aptera Charpentier, 1825
*Locusta griseoaptera De Geer, 1773
*Pholidoptera cinerea
*Pterolepis aptera

Dark el

Dark elf (disambiguation)

Dark khaki

Dark is The Way, Light is a Place

Dark clouds in a perfect sky

Dark lightning

Pholidoptera griseoaptera

Dark kingdom arc

Dark giant horsefly

Dark green mouse-ear chickweed

Dark eyed junco

Scyliorhinus

Dark film

Dark knight returns

Dark conspiracy

Darkwarrior Duck

Dark dune spot

Dark eyes (disambiguation)

Dark electromagnetism

Artibeus

Dark current

Dark forces (series)

Dark joke

Dark Faced Burnished Ware or DFBW is the earliest form of pottery developed in the western world.It was produced after the earliest examples from the independent phenomenon of the Jōmon culture in Japan and is predominantly found at archaeological sites in Lebanon, Israel southwest Syria and Cyprus. Some notable examples of Dark Faced Burnished Ware were found at Tell Judaidah (and nearby Tell Dhahab) in Amuq by Robert Braidwood as well as at Ras Shamra and Tell Boueid.

Dark circle

Dark knight

Dark circle (disambiguation)

Male of Pholidoptera griseoaptera

Dark circles

megacephalus

Darker commodore

Dark humor

Dark matter theory

Dark goldenrod

Dark finned Conger-eel

Dark finned conger eel

Dark matter (disambiguation)

Dark is Rising: The Seeker

Dark faced burnished ware

K. D. A. Soares, Gadig & U. L. Gomes, 2015

Dark matter is defined as hypothetical matter that is undetectable by its emitted radiation, but whose presence can be inferred from gravitational effects on visible matter. It has been used in a variety of fictional media, including computer and video games and books. In such cases, dark matter is usually attributed extraordinary physical or magical properties. Such descriptions are often inconsistent with the known properties of dark matter proposed in physics and cosmology.

Dark grass-skipper

Dark meat

Dark crimson underwing

Dark lord

Dark figure

Elves, a word from Germanic mythology, are frequently featured in Fantasy fiction. In modern fiction, particularly because of the influence from J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, elves are modeled mostly after his original description: tall, human-like creatures of otherworldly beauty, with Kings and Queens. Along with this development, Dark elves are often modeled as a more sinister counterpart to the High elves, like the Drow or the Trow, which are the fairy-like dark creatures of Orcadian and Shetlandic folklore. The dark elves (Dökkálfar) or black elves (Svartálfar) are presented in Germanic mythology as dwarves and gray ones.

Dark hawksbeard

Dark data (business)

"Darling Nikki" is a song produced, arranged, composed and performed by American musician Prince and originally released on his Grammy Award-winning 1984 album, Purple Rain. Though the song was not released as a single, it gained wide notoriety for its sexual lyrics and in particular a reference to masturbation. Partly because of the lyrical content of "Darling Nikki", Tipper Gore founded the Parents Music Resource Center, which eventually led to the use of "Parental Advisory" stickers and imprints on album covers. Compared with the slick production of the other songs on the album, "Darling Nikki" was deliberately engineered to have a raw, live feel.The song tells the story of a "sex fiend" named Nikki who seduces the singer. In the film Purple Rain, the song is directed toward Apollonia Kotero's character when she decides to work with Prince's character's rival, played by Morris Day.Near the end of the song, the music stops into the sound of rain and wind. There is singing, but played in reverse. The vocals, unreversed, are Prince singing,"Hello, how are you?Fine fine 'cause I know that the Lord is coming soonComing, coming soon."During the Purple Rain Tour performances of "Darling Nikki", the recording at the end was played forward. This can be heard in the live video Prince and the Revolution: Live.

Dark brocade

Dark knob-tipped shadowdamsel

Dark glassy tiger

Dark figure for crime