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CR-39 plastic has an index of refraction of 1.498 and an Abbe number of 58. CR-39 is now a trade-marked product of PPG Industries. [2] An alternative use includes a purified version that is used to measure ionising radiation such as alpha particles and neutrons. Although CR-39 is a type of polycarbonate, it should not be confused with the ...
The Standard Oil Company of Kentucky was incorporated on October 8, 1886, under Kentucky laws. [2] It was founded as a division of the Standard Oil Trust to handle the assets of the Chess, Carley & Company, which Standard had acquired to handle product marketing and distribution for the southeastern U.S. [citation needed] It maintained corporate offices in all of the states it serviced, and ...
The Rubbertown industrial complex was created with construction by Standard Oil of Kentucky, who built an oil refinery in the area in 1918. Two other companies would come to the area for similar business in the 1930s, Aetna Oil and Louisville Refinery. These refineries were producers of fuel, gasoline, kerosene, naphtha, oil, and petroleum coke ...
In 1960, 58.4% of the people in Appalachian Kentucky were economically poor under the federal measure, compared to 22.1% nationwide, the Kentucky Appalachian Commission said in a report published ...
In 2012, Cabot Corporation was selected as a Bronze Winner for the Ninth Annual Team Massachusetts Economic Impact Awards. [20] They were also selected as one of CR Magazine’s 100 Best Corporate Citizens for 2012. [21]
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Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, Kentucky led the US in coal production. A well drilled in 1819 in salt water, in the South Fork of the Cumberland River revealed the first indications of petroleum in Kentucky. A rush to produce paraffin from oil in the 1850s prompted discoveries in Clinton, Cumberland, Allen, Barren, Meade, Wayne and Russell ...