- Industry: Printing & publishing
- Number of terms: 178089
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- Company Profile:
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.
Unreliable generalizations about all members of a group that do not recognize individual differences within the group.
Industry:Sociology
A term used by Max Weber to refer to people who have the same prestige or lifestyle, independent of their class positions.
Industry:Sociology
Areas occupied by the very poor on the fringes of cities, in which housing is often constructed by the settlers themselves from discarded material.
Industry:Sociology
A condition in which members of a society have different amounts of wealth, prestige, or power.
Industry:Sociology
The study of the distribution of disease, impairment, and general health status across a population.
Industry:Sociology
CaC<sub>2</sub>O<sub>4</sub>_H<sub>2</sub>O A salt of oxalic acid in the form of white crystals that are insoluble in water.
Industry:Chemistry
Li<sub>2</sub> B<sub>4</sub>O<sub>7</sub>_5H<sub>2</sub>O White crystals that lose water at 200_C; insoluble in alcohol, soluble in water; used in ceramics.
Industry:Chemistry
CaO A caustic white solid sparingly soluble in water; the commercial form is prepared by roasting calcium carbonate limestone in kilns until all the carbon dioxide is driven off; used as a refractory, in pulp and paper manufacture, and as a flux in manufacture of steel. Also known as burnt lime; calx; caustic lime.
Industry:Chemistry
Li<sub>2</sub> TiO<sub>3</sub> A water-insoluble white powder with strong fluxing ability when used in titanium-containing enamels; also used as a mill additive in vitreous and semivitreous glazes.
Industry:Chemistry
