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Union Carbide

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Union Carbide Corporation is a wholly owned subsidiary (since 2001) of Dow Chemical Company. [1]

64 relations: Aerospace, Alkaline battery, Antifreeze, Asbestos, Bakelite, Bhopal, Bhopal disaster, Bisphenol A, Calcium carbide, Carbide & Carbon Building, Charleston, West Virginia, Chemical industry, Chlorobenzene, Chlorophenol, Cold War, DDT, Dow Chemical Company, Dow Jones Industrial Average, Energizer, Ethane, Ethylene, Ethylene glycol, Eveready Battery Company, Government of India, Homebush Bay, Houston, JPMorgan Chase, Liquid-propellant rocket, Matrix Corporate Center, Methyl isocyanate, Missile, National Carbon Company, Natural gas, New Idria, California, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Parramatta River, Petrochemical industry, Phenol, Phenol formaldehyde resin, Polyurethane, Port Jackson, Prestone, Propane, Ralston Purina, Research, Research and development, Rhodes, New South Wales, Settlement (litigation), Silicon dioxide, Silicosis, ..., Simoniz, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, Solid-propellant rocket, Spacecraft propulsion, Subsidiary, Sydney, The Glad Products Company, Union Carbide India Limited, United States congressional hearing, Warren Anderson (American businessman), Zinc–carbon battery, 2,4,5-Trichlorophenoxyacetic acid, 2,4-Dichlorophenoxyacetic acid, 270 Park Avenue. Expand index (14 more) »

Aerospace

Aerospace is the human effort in science, engineering and business to fly in the atmosphere of Earth (aeronautics) and surrounding space (astronautics).

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Alkaline battery

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Antifreeze

An antifreeze is an additive which lowers the freezing point of a water-based liquid and increases its boiling point.

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Asbestos

Asbestos is a set of six naturally occurring silicate minerals, which all have in common their eponymous asbestiform habit: i.e. long (roughly 1:20 aspect ratio), thin fibrous crystals, with each visible fiber composed of millions of microscopic "fibrils" that can be released by abrasion and other processes.

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Bakelite

Bakelite (sometimes spelled Baekelite), or polyoxybenzylmethylenglycolanhydride, is the first plastic made from synthetic components.

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Bhopal

Bhopal is the capital city of the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh and the administrative headquarters of Bhopal district and Bhopal division.

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Bhopal disaster

The Bhopal disaster, also referred to as the Bhopal gas tragedy, was a gas leak incident on the night of 2–3 December 1984 at the Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL) pesticide plant in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India.

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Bisphenol A

Bisphenol A (BPA) is an organic synthetic compound with the chemical formula (CH3)2C(C6H4OH)2 belonging to the group of diphenylmethane derivatives and bisphenols, with two hydroxyphenyl groups.

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Calcium carbide

Calcium carbide is a chemical compound with the chemical formula of CaC2.

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Carbide & Carbon Building

The Carbide & Carbon Building is a 37-story, landmark Art Deco skyscraper built in 1929, located on Michigan Avenue in Chicago.

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Charleston, West Virginia

Charleston is the most populous city in, and the capital of, the U.S. state of West Virginia.

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Chemical industry

The chemical industry comprises the companies that produce industrial chemicals.

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Chlorobenzene

Chlorobenzene is an aromatic organic compound with the chemical formula C6H5Cl.

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Chlorophenol

A chlorophenol is any organochloride of phenol that contains one or more covalently bonded chlorine atoms.

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Cold War

The Cold War was a state of geopolitical tension after World War II between powers in the Eastern Bloc (the Soviet Union and its satellite states) and powers in the Western Bloc (the United States, its NATO allies and others).

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DDT

Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane, commonly known as DDT, is a colorless, tasteless, and almost odorless crystalline chemical compound, an organochlorine, originally developed as an insecticide, and ultimately becoming infamous for its environmental impacts.

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Dow Chemical Company

The Dow Chemical Company, commonly referred to as Dow, is an American multinational chemical corporation headquartered in Midland, Michigan, United States, and the predecessor of the merged company DowDuPont.

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Dow Jones Industrial Average

The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA), or simply the Dow, is a stock market index that shows how 30 large, publicly owned companies based in the United States have traded during a standard trading session in the stock market.

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Energizer

Energizer Holdings is an American manufacturer of batteries, headquartered in Town and Country, Missouri.

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Ethane

Ethane is an organic chemical compound with chemical formula.

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Ethylene

Ethylene (IUPAC name: ethene) is a hydrocarbon which has the formula or H2C.

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Ethylene glycol

Ethylene glycol (IUPAC name: ethane-1,2-diol) is an organic compound with the formula (CH2OH)2.

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Eveready Battery Company

Eveready Battery Company, Inc. is an American manufacturer of battery brands Eveready and Energizer, owned by Energizer Holdings.

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Government of India

The Government of India (IAST), often abbreviated as GoI, is the union government created by the constitution of India as the legislative, executive and judicial authority of the union of 29 states and seven union territories of a constitutionally democratic republic.

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Homebush Bay

Homebush Bay is a bay on the south bank of the Parramatta River, in the Inner West of Sydney, Australia.

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Houston

Houston is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Texas and the fourth most populous city in the United States, with a census-estimated 2017 population of 2.312 million within a land area of.

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JPMorgan Chase

JPMorgan Chase & Co. is an American multinational investment bank and financial services company headquartered in New York City.

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Liquid-propellant rocket

A liquid-propellant rocket or liquid rocket is a rocket engine that uses liquid propellants.

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Matrix Corporate Center

The Matrix Corporate Center, formerly known as the Corporate Center and before that as the Union Carbide Corporate Center, is an architecturally unique building in Danbury, Connecticut.

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Methyl isocyanate

Methyl isocyanate (MIC) is an organic compound with the molecular formula CH3NCO.

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Missile

In modern language, a missile is a guided self-propelled system, as opposed to an unguided self-propelled munition, referred to as a rocket (although these too can also be guided).

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National Carbon Company

The National Carbon Company was founded in 1886 by the former Brush Electric Company executive W. H. Lawrence, in association with Myron T. Herrick, James Parmelee, and Webb Hayes, son of U.S. President Rutherford B. Hayes, in Cleveland, Ohio.

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Natural gas

Natural gas is a naturally occurring hydrocarbon gas mixture consisting primarily of methane, but commonly including varying amounts of other higher alkanes, and sometimes a small percentage of carbon dioxide, nitrogen, hydrogen sulfide, or helium.

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New Idria, California

New Idria was an unincorporated town in San Benito County, California.

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Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) is an American multiprogram science and technology national laboratory sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and administered, managed, and operated by UT-Battelle as a federally funded research and development center (FFRDC) under a contract with the DOE.

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Parramatta River

The Parramatta River is an intermediate tide dominated, drowned valley estuary located in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

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Petrochemical industry

The petrochemical industry is concerned with the production and trade of petrochemicals.

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Phenol

Phenol, also known as phenolic acid, is an aromatic organic compound with the molecular formula C6H5OH.

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Phenol formaldehyde resin

Phenol formaldehyde resins (PF) or phenolic resins are synthetic polymers obtained by the reaction of phenol or substituted phenol with formaldehyde.

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Polyurethane

Polyurethane (PUR and PU) is a polymer composed of organic units joined by carbamate (urethane) links.

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Port Jackson

Port Jackson, consisting of the waters of Sydney Harbour, Middle Harbour, North Harbour and the Lane Cove and Parramatta Rivers, is the ria or natural harbour of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

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Prestone

Prestone is an American brand of antifreeze owned by KIK Custom Products Inc.

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Propane

Propane is a three-carbon alkane with the molecular formula C3H8.

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Ralston Purina

Ralston Purina Company was a St. Louis, Missouri-based American animal feed, food and pet food company.

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Research

Research comprises "creative and systematic work undertaken to increase the stock of knowledge, including knowledge of humans, culture and society, and the use of this stock of knowledge to devise new applications." It is used to establish or confirm facts, reaffirm the results of previous work, solve new or existing problems, support theorems, or develop new theories.

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Research and development

Research and development (R&D, R+D, or R'n'D), also known in Europe as research and technological development (RTD), refers to innovative activities undertaken by corporations or governments in developing new services or products, or improving existing services or products.

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Rhodes, New South Wales

Rhodes is a suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia.

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Settlement (litigation)

In law, a settlement is a resolution between disputing parties about a legal case, reached either before or after court action begins.

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Silicon dioxide

Silicon dioxide, also known as silica (from the Latin silex), is an oxide of silicon with the chemical formula, most commonly found in nature as quartz and in various living organisms.

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Silicosis

Silicosis (also known as miner's phthisis, grinder's asthma, potter's rot and other occupation-related names, or by the invented name pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis) is a form of occupational lung disease caused by inhalation of crystalline silica dust, and is marked by inflammation and scarring in the form of nodular lesions in the upper lobes of the lungs.

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Simoniz

Simoniz USA, Inc. is an American manufacturer of automobile and janitorial cleaning products.

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Skidmore, Owings & Merrill

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP (SOM) is an American architectural, urban planning, and engineering firm.

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Solid-propellant rocket

A solid-propellant rocket or solid rocket is a rocket with a rocket engine that uses solid propellants (fuel/oxidizer).

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Spacecraft propulsion

Spacecraft propulsion is any method used to accelerate spacecraft and artificial satellites.

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Subsidiary

A subsidiary, subsidiary company or daughter company"daughter company.

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Sydney

Sydney is the state capital of New South Wales and the most populous city in Australia and Oceania.

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The Glad Products Company

The Glad Products Company is an American company specializing in trash bags and plastic food storage containers.

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Union Carbide India Limited

Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL) was a chemical company established in 1934, eventually expanding to employ 9,000 people working at 14 plants in five divisions.

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United States congressional hearing

A United States congressional hearing is the principal formal method by which United States congressional committees collect and analyze information in the early stages of legislative policymaking.

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Warren Anderson (American businessman)

Warren Martin Anderson (November 29, 1921 – September 29, 2014) was an American businessman who served as Chairman and CEO of the Union Carbide Corporation at the time of the Bhopal disaster in 1984.

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Zinc–carbon battery

A zinc–carbon battery is a dry cell primary battery that delivers about 1.5 volts of direct current from the electrochemical reaction between zinc and manganese dioxide.

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2,4,5-Trichlorophenoxyacetic acid

2,4,5-Trichlorophenoxyacetic acid (also known as 2,4,5-T), a synthetic auxin, is a chlorophenoxy acetic acid herbicide used to defoliate broad-leafed plants.

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2,4-Dichlorophenoxyacetic acid

2,4-Dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (usually called 2,4-D) is an organic compound with the chemical formula C8H6Cl2O3.

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270 Park Avenue

270 Park Avenue (also known as the JPMorgan Chase Tower and formerly the Union Carbide Building) is a high-rise office building located in Midtown Manhattan, New York City.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_Carbide

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