• William Merriam Burton (November 17, 1865 – December 29, 1954) was an American chemist who developed a widely used thermal cracking process for crude oil...
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  • The Burton process is a thermal cracking process invented by William Merriam Burton and Robert E. Humphreys, both of whom held a PhD in chemistry from...
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  • engineer, photographer and photography writer William Merriam Burton (1865–1954), American chemist William John Burton (1908–1985), New Zealand lithographic draughtsman...
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  • In the first decade of the 20th century the American engineers William Merriam Burton and Robert E. Humphreys independently developed and patented a similar...
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    George Buksar, football player George Burman, football player William Merriam Burton, worked at the Standard Oil refinery in Whiting; became president...
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    1913, William Merriam Burton, working as a chemist for the Standard Oil of Indiana refinery at Whiting, Indiana, was granted a patent for the Burton thermal...
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  • chemist and past honorary president of Society of Chemical Industry William Merriam Burton (1865–1954), American chemist, developed the first thermal cracking...
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    Michael Brooks (historian, journalist) (Toledo) William Merriam Burton (chemist) (Cleveland) William Campbell (astronomer) (Hancock County) Richard E...
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  • Rubinstein, American pianist, composer and teacher (b. 1898) 1954 – William Merriam Burton, American chemist (b. 1865) 1956 – Miles Vandahurst Lynk, American...
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    original on May 20, 2020. Retrieved January 4, 2020. "NIHF Inductee William Burton and Catalytic Cracking". www.invent.org. April 6, 2024. Archived from...
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    Ottoman Empire began training its own pilots and flight officers. William Merriam Burton applied for the patent of the thermal cracking process that he had...
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    examine why it capsized before it was re-commissioned into service. William Merriam Burton was awarded U.S. Patent No. 1,049,667 for his thermal cracking process...
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  • love". Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary. Merriam-Webster. Gillette, Hope (12 April 2022). "This Is Platonic Love". Psych Central. Mish, F (1993). Merriam-Webster's...
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  • Webster's Dictionary. Retrieved 17 March 2018. "apologia pro vita sua". Merriam-Webster. The Arma Christi in Medieval and Early Modern Material Culture:...
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    hairstyles Beard Moustache Sideburns Soul patch Van Dyke beard "goatee". Merriam-Webster Dictionary. Retrieved 12 April 2024. Howard, Rebecca (10 September...
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    from the original on 26 September 2007. Retrieved 2006-06-13. "Vampire". Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary. Archived from the original on 2006-06-14. Retrieved...
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    Lexicon, on Perseus "Definition of DEVIL". www.merriam-webster.com. Retrieved 23 April 2016. Jeffrey Burton Russell (1987). The Devil: Perceptions of Evil...
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  • Retrieved 23 March 2023. "7 Bonzer Aussie Words". Merriam-Webster. Retrieved 20 November 2021. Burton, Gideon O. "Meiosis". Silva Rhetoricae. Archived...
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    List of works influenced by One Thousand and One Nights "Scheherazade". Merriam-Webster. Retrieved 27 April 2019. Marzolph, Ulrich (2017). "Arabian Nights"...
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    many or all taxons in a particular biological family, class, or clade. Merriam-Webster writes that most terms of venery fell out of use in the 16th century...
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    and Germany', slaying friend and enemy alike". "Word of the Day: Hoise". Merriam-Webster. Archived from the original on 2020-07-30. Retrieved 2020-03-17...
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    Leighton and in 1637 still other Puritans, John Bastwick, Henry Burton, and William Prynne. In Scotland one of the Covenanters, James Gavin of Douglas...
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    "wistfulness". "Definition of Moroseness". Merriam-Webster Dictionary. Retrieved 2022-12-07. "Definition of Wistfulness". Merriam-Webster Dictionary. Retrieved December...
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    University. pp. 48–49. ISBN 978-0858375888. "quixotic". Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary. Merriam-Webster. Retrieved 26 January 2016. "quixotic". Dictionary...
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  • of Reading Rainbow episodes, hosted by longtime executive producer LeVar Burton. The show premiered on PBS on July 11, 1983. The final episode aired on...
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  • Historical Association. Retrieved 7 September 2017. Merriam, Charles E. (1926). "Masters of Social Science: William Archibald Dunning". Social Forces. 5 (1): 1–8...
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    especially for enclosing land or livestock": [Definition of "hurdle"], Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, retrieved 11 October 2007. A blue plaque identifies...
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  • Meng Democratic 6th January 3, 2013 – present Queens Incumbent Clinton L. Merriam Republican 20th March 4, 1871 – March 3, 1873 Locust Grove ? 21st March...
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    misinterpretation of Is 14.12)." Luke 10:18 The Merriam-Webster New Book of Word Histories. Merriam-Webster. 1991. p. 280. ISBN 978-0-87779-603-9. Retrieved...
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    Handjob Pearl necklace (sexuality) Steak and Blowjob Day "fellation". Merriam-Webster. Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. Archived from the original on 2010-04-10...
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