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(Encyclopedia) BoksburgBoksburgbŏksˈbûrgˌ [key], city, now part of Ekurhuleni metropolitan municipality, Gauteng prov., NE South Africa. It is an important coal-mining center. Some gold mining is…Wakayama
(Encyclopedia) WakayamaWakayamawäkäˈyämä [key], city (1990 pop. 396,553), capital of Wakayama prefecture, SW Honshu, Japan, on the Inland Sea. It is a railroad hub and a manufacturing center where…petrochemical
(Encyclopedia) petrochemical, any one of a large group of chemicals derived from a component of petroleum or natural gas. The cracking processes for manufacturing gasoline produce vast quantities of…hydrocarbon
(Encyclopedia) hydrocarbonhydrocarbonhīˌdrōkärˈbən [key], any organic compound composed solely of the elements hydrogen and carbon. The hydrocarbons differ both in the total number of carbon and…Lowe, Thaddeus Sobieski Coulincourt
(Encyclopedia) Lowe, Thaddeus Sobieski CoulincourtLowe, Thaddeus Sobieski Coulincourtthădˈēəs sōˌbē-ĕsˈkē kōˈlĭnkôrtˌ lō [key], 1832–1913, American aeronaut and inventor, b. Coos co., N.H. He flew (…Drohobych
(Encyclopedia) DrohobychDrohobychdrôˌkôbĭchˈ [key], Pol. Drohobycz, Rus. Drogobych, city (1989 pop. 78,000), Lviv region, W Ukraine, in the N Carpathian foothills. The major petroleum-refining center…Atyrau
(Encyclopedia) Atyrau Atyrau äˈtērouˌ [key], formerly Guryev Guryev g&oomacr;rˈyĭf [key], city, W Kazakhstan, on the Ural River and near the Caspian Sea…Bonny
(Encyclopedia) BonnyBonnybŏnˈē [key], town, SE Nigeria, in the Niger River delta, on the Bight of Biafra. In the 18th and 19th cent., Bonny was the center of a powerful trading state, and in the 19th…Tîrgovişte
(Encyclopedia) TîrgovişteTîrgoviştetûrˌgôvēshˈtĕ [key], town (1990 pop. 100,948), S central Romania, in Walachia, in a petroleum-producing region. Oil refining and the manufacture of oil-field…Pascagoula
(Encyclopedia) PascagoulaPascagoulapăskəg&oomacr;ˈlə [key], city (1990 pop. 25,899), seat of Jackson co., extreme SE Miss. A port of entry on Mississippi Sound at the mouth of the Pascagoula…Trending
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