Crossword clues for solvay
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Housing Units (2000): 3291
Land area (2000): 1.643604 sq. miles (4.256915 sq. km)
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Total area (2000): 1.643604 sq. miles (4.256915 sq. km)
FIPS code: 68286
Located within: New York (NY), FIPS 36
Location: 43.057316 N, 76.214649 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 13209
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Headwords:
Solvay
Wikipedia
Solvay may refer to
- Ernest Solvay (1838-1922), Belgian chemist, industrialist and philanthropist; inventor of the Solvay process
- Solvay process, a major industrial chemical process
- Solvay S.A., an international chemicals and plastics company founded by Ernest Solvay
- Solvay Conference, founded by Ernest Solvay; deals with open questions in physics and chemistry
- Solvay Business School and Solvay Institute of Sociology, Brussels, Belgium, part of the Université Libre de Bruxelles
- Solvay Process Company (1880–1985), a former U.S. company that employed the Solvay process
Places:
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Solvay, New York, a village
- Solvay Public Library, on the National Register of Historic Places
- Solvay Mountains, Brabant Island, off the coast of Antarctica
- Mount Solvay, Queen Maud Land, Antarctica
- 7537 Solvay, an asteroid
Usage examples of "solvay".
Crouching behind the Solvay tower they saw lights on the horizon and felt in their teeth more distant crashes and screams of metal.
Off to the right were things that might have been Solvay Process towers for sulfuric acid, and a glittering horror of a neo-Roman administration-and-labs building.
Monsieur Solvay has given a million francs, and other Belgians given large sums.
Thomsen synthesis was used until the 1890s, when it was superseded by the 1864 Solvay ammonia-soda process.
However, bear in mind that sodium carbonate, while a very important industrial chemical, can be made not only by the Thomsen cryolite process, but also by both the earlier Le Blanc process (1791) and the later Solvay process, both described in Grantville encyclopedias.
He led his thirty to the lee of a junked Solvay Process tower where they had cached their remaining weapons.