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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 ...
Ashland was founded in 1924 as the Ashland Refining Company in Catlettsburg, Kentucky, by Paul G. Blazer. [3]In October 1923, J. Fred Miles of the Swiss Oil Company of Lexington, Kentucky [4] employed Paul G. Blazer and assigned him the task of locating, purchasing and operating a refinery in northeastern Kentucky.
Here’s photos and video of damage taken by Herald-Leader staff photographers around Lexington and Central Kentucky and social media posts on the severe weather.
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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 ...
The Indian Refining Company was an American oil company in operation from the first decade of the 1900s until April 2, 1943. It was bought by the Texas Company in 1931. It had an oil refinery based in Lawrenceville, Illinois. Indian Refining patented the first "wax free" oil under the Havoline brand.
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 ...