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Alvanley Johnston

Daniel Willard, President of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, met with other leaders of his industry who agreed that the Interstate Commerce Commission had to approve higher freight rates and the unions had to accept wage cuts if the railroads were to stay solvent.

Bruck Easton

Together with Fundraising Chair, Irving Gerstein, Easton kept the party finances afloat through the 2000 election campaign and left the party solvent at the time of the its amalgamation with the Canadian Alliance in December 2003.

Chlorinated polyvinyl chloride

Due to its specific composition, dealing with CPVC requires a specialized solvent cement, with high strength solvent cement variants being first introduced in 1997 by Weld-On, then followed closely by other products such as Henkel's Tangit line.

Concentrate

A concentrate is a form of substance which has had the majority of its base component (in the case of a liquid: the solvent) removed.

Conservatorship

Again, in the U.S. at the federal level, in September 2008, the chief executive officers, and board of directors Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were dismissed, and the companies were placed into the conservatorship of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) via the determination of its director James B. Lockhart III, with the support and financial backing of U.S. Treasury via Treasury secretary Hank Paulson's commitment to keep the corporations solvent.

Decaffeination

The use of water as the solvent to decaffeinate coffee was originally developed in Switzerland in the 1980s and is now used commercially under the trade-mark "Swiss Water Process" by The Swiss Water Decaffeinated Coffee Company of Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada.

Diethylaminosulfur trifluoride

The Organic Syntheses protocol calls for trichlorofluoromethane as a solvent, a compound that has been banned under the Montreal Protocol and is no longer available as a commodity chemical.

Implicit solvation

Viscosity may be added back by using Langevin dynamics instead of Hamiltonian dynamics and choosing an appropriate damping constant for the particular solvent.

Laurdan

Due to its high sensitivity to the mobility and presence of solvent dipoles, changes in the emission spectrum can be calculated from the generalized polarization.

Lighter fluid

Charcoal lighter fluid, an aliphatic petroleum solvent used in lighting charcoal in a barbecue grill

Methiocarb

In a research with E. vermiculata, methiocarb showed to be the most effective as topical applicant (although DMSO was used as an solvent).

Oxygen difluoride

In Robert L. Forward's science fiction novel Camelot 30K, oxygen difluoride was used as a biochemical solvent by fictional life forms living in the solar system's Kuiper belt.

Panic of 1930

The Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta opened the discount window to solvent member banks which had illiquid securities and needed liquidity.

Parylene

Parylene development started in 1947, when Michael Szwarc discovered the polymer as one of the thermal decomposition products of a common solvent p-xylene at a temperatures exceeding 1000 °C.

Photograph conservation

Galleries in the Chelsea neighborhood of New York City send new works to conservation facilities in order to assure new collectors that an art purchase will become a financially solvent investment.

Polymer turbulence drag reduction

In 1948 Toms discovered by experiments that the addition of a small amount of polymer into a turbulent Newtonian solvent (parts per million by weight), which

SCP-ISM

The model can be combined with quantum chemical calculations to formally derive a continuum model of solvent effects suitable for computer simulations of small and large molecular systems.

Sol-gel

The volume change at the transition point is either discrete (as in a first-order Ehrenfest transition) or continuous (second order Ehrenfest analogy), depending on the degree of ionization of the gel and on the solvent composition.

Thinner

Paint thinner, a solvent used in painting and decorating, for thinning oil based paint and cleaning brushes.

Universal solvent

Alkahest, a hypothetical solvent able to dissolve every other substance


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