• Diamond Alkali Company was an American chemical company incorporated in 1910 in West Virginia by a group of glass industry businessmen from Pittsburgh...
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  • 1967 when Cleveland-based Diamond Alkali merged with Shamrock Oil of Amarillo, Texas, creating the entity known as the Diamond Shamrock Corporation. The...
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  • which polluted a river with caustic soda Deepwater Horizon oil spill Diamond Alkali dumping of "bad batches" of the herbicide Agent Orange and byproducts...
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    former Shamrock Oil and Gas Company, which merged with Diamond Alkali in 1967 to form Diamond Shamrock, thus declaring the trademark from official abandonment...
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    The alkali metals consist of the chemical elements lithium (Li), sodium (Na), potassium (K), rubidium (Rb), caesium (Cs), and francium (Fr). Together with...
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    sections later abandoned for many years, and is an EPA Superfund site. Diamond Alkali in the Ironbound section, was a notable contributor to the contamination...
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    businessmen such as Dave R. Jones) was a group led by Bill Evans of Diamond Alkali and the other was a group headlined by a group of Rudy Schaefer of the...
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    pollution in the Passaic River dates back to the Vietnam era, when Diamond Alkali manufactured it in a factory along the river. The tidal river carried...
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  • West Virginia MetroNews (Charleston) Woodcraft Supply (Parkersburg) Diamond Alkali West Virginia Media Holdings Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel - acquired then...
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    Purple), Thompson-Hayward Chemical Company (Agent Orange and Agent Pink), Diamond Alkali/Shamrock Company (Agent Orange, Agent Blue, Agent Purple, and Agent...
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    operation at a more limited capacity. Later in the village's history, the Diamond Alkali Company operated from 1912 to 1976. In recent years Fairport Harbor...
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  • and Diamond Lake, on Oregon Route 230 in Douglas County, in the U.S. state of Oregon. It totals 510 feet (160 m) fall in six drops, the Upper Alkali and...
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    were discovered at an abandoned chemical factory in the Ironbound. The Diamond Alkali Company was largely responsible for this pollution through their heavy...
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  • at the University of Pittsburgh. He went to work in industry at the Diamond Alkali Company in Painesville in 1957. There he was involved in authoring 44...
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  • 2016-03-15. "DE REWAL CHEMICAL CO". scorecard. Retrieved 2016-03-15. "DIAMOND HEAD OIL REFINERY DIV". scorecard. Retrieved 2016-03-15. "DOVER MUNICIPAL...
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    Mrs. Caroline Anyanwu, Mrs. Chizoma Okoli, Mr. Chiugo Ndubisi, Mr. Kabir Alkali Mohammed, Mr. Damian Dolland, Mr. Dele Babade, Mr. Christopher Ubosi, and...
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  • controlling undesirable plant growth", published 1960-02-02, assigned to Diamond Alkali Co.  Rabjohn, Norman (1948). "The Chlorination of Isophthaloyl and Terephthaloyl...
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    Cleveland Air Races as a young boy. With money saved from his job with the Diamond Alkali Company, he and a friend purchased a Piper J-3 in the mid-1930s, flying...
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    is also used as a relatively strong base in various fields. As a common alkali, it is preferred in many chemical processes because it is cheaper than sodium...
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  • To Take Possession of and Operate the Plants and Facilities of the Diamond Alkali Company, Located in or Around Painesville, Ohio June 18, 1945 38 9575...
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    Carbon (section Diamond)
    does not react with sulfuric acid, hydrochloric acid, chlorine or any alkalis. At elevated temperatures, carbon reacts with oxygen to form carbon oxides...
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  • boys disappear. 1979 - Foreign trade zone established. 1984 - Former Diamond Alkali plant site in Ironbound declared a Superfund site (polluted area). 1986...
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    element) due to its valency (tetravalent). Well-known forms of carbon include diamond and graphite. In recent decades, many more allotropes have been discovered...
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    synthesis of diamond. The general process for c-BN synthesis is the dissolution of hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) in a solvent-catalyst, usually alkali or alkaline...
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    Riebeckite typically forms dark-blue elongated to fibrous crystals in highly alkali granites, syenites, rarely in felsic volcanics, granite pegmatites and schist...
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    The town of Eureka lies at the southern end of Diamond Valley, while the northern end is home to an alkali flat. Several small lakes are located in the...
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  • the top of the alkali metal column in the periodic table, hydrogen does not, under ordinary conditions, exhibit the properties of an alkali metal. Instead...
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  • Alkali Rubber Company, and a new plant was constructed adjacent to the existing Diamond and B.F. Goodrich plants in Akron. In March 1912, the Diamond...
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    and hydroxide anions OH−. Sodium hydroxide is a highly corrosive base and alkali that decomposes lipids and proteins at ambient temperatures and may cause...
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  • Water-reactive substances (category Alkali metals)
    flammable gas. Some are highly reducing in nature. Notable examples include alkali metals, lithium through caesium, and alkaline earth metals, magnesium through...
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