- Industry: Printing & publishing
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McGraw Hill Financial, Inc. is an American publicly traded corporation headquartered in Rockefeller Center in New York City. Its primary areas of business are financial, publishing, and business services.
Salt derived from persulfuric acid and containing the radical S<sub>2</sub>O<sub>8</sub> <sub>2</sub>_; made by electrolysis of sulfate solutions.
Industry:Chemistry
SrCl<sub>2</sub>Water- and alcohol-soluble white crystals, melts at 872_C; used in medicine and pyrotechnics and to make strontium salts.
Industry:Chemistry
1. Any of a group of compounds related to the borates in which one or more oxygens have been replaced by fluorine atoms. 2. The BF<sub>4</sub> _ ion, which is derived from fluoroboric acid, HBF<sub>4</sub>. Also known as fluoborate.
Industry:Chemistry
Legal provisions stipulating land use and architectural design of housing sometimes used as a means of keeping racial minorities and low-income people out of suburban areas.
Industry:Sociology
The state of a population with a growth rate of zero, achieved when the number of births plus immigrants is equal to the number of deaths plus emigrants.
Industry:Sociology
The German word for "understanding" or "insight"; used by Max Weber to stress the need for sociologists to take into account people's emotions, thoughts, beliefs, and attitudes.
Industry:Sociology
The movement of a person from one social position to another of a different rank.
Industry:Sociology
Veblen's term for those people or groups who will suffer in the event of social change and who have a stake in maintaining the status quo.
Industry:Sociology
Questionnaires or interviews used to determine whether people have been victims of crime.
Industry:Sociology
