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Ulhasnagar

(Encyclopedia)Ulhasnagar o͞olˈhəsnəgər [key], city (1991 pop. 368,772), Maharashtra state, W central India. It is a residential and industrial suburb of Mumbai, with chemical and textile chemicals. It lies in ...

Saint Helens

(Encyclopedia)Saint Helens, metropolitan borough (1991 pop. 114,397), NW England, in the Greater Liverpool metropolitan area. It is a major center of glass manufacture in England. The city also has iron and brass f...

Rocky Hill

(Encyclopedia)Rocky Hill, town (1990 pop. 16,554), Hartford co., central Conn., a suburb of Hartford, on the Connecticut River; settled c.1650, inc. 1843. Chemical coatings and synthetic textiles are made there. Ro...

Shimada

(Encyclopedia)Shimada shĭmäˈdä [key], city (1990 pop. 73,810), Shizuoka prefecture, E central Honshu, Japan, on the Oi River. It is a distribution point for timber and rice and a center for woodworking, chemica...

Prussian blue

(Encyclopedia)Prussian blue, pigment widely used for laundry bluing, in dyeing compounds, and in the manufacture of inks and paints. Several varieties are known, one of which consists of the chemical compound ferri...

Cheremkhovo

(Encyclopedia)Cheremkhovo chĕrĭmkôˈvə [key], city (1989 pop. 74,000), SE Siberian Russia, on the Trans-Siberian RR. The center of the Cheremkhovo coal basin, the city forms part of a minor industrial complex b...

Kotka

(Encyclopedia)Kotka kōtˈkä [key], city (1998 pop. 55,551), Southern Finland prov., SE Finland, on the Gulf of Finland. It is a major export center for paper, pulp, and timber, and it has chemical industries. It ...

Kruševac

(Encyclopedia)Kruševac kro͞oˈshĕväts [key], town (1991 pop. 58,808), Serbia. A commercial center, it has a hydroelectric plant and an important chemical industry. The seat of the kings of Serbia until 1389, it...

Pontoise

(Encyclopedia)Pontoise pôNtwäzˈ [key], city (1990 pop. 28,463), capital of Val-d'Oise dept., N central France. It is the site of a technical school. The metallurgy and chemical industries are important. A “new...

caustic

(Encyclopedia)caustic, any strongly corrosive chemical substance, especially one that attacks organic matter. A caustic alkali is a metal hydroxide, especially that of an alkali metal; caustic soda is sodium hydrox...