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81Changsha — /chahng shah /, n. Pinyin, Wade Giles. a city in and the capital of Hunan province, in SE China. 825,000. * * * or Ch ang sha City (pop., 1999 est.: 1,334,036), capital of Hunan province, China. Located in southeast central China, it was… …
82Dali — /dah lee/, n. Salvador /sal veuh dawr /; Sp. /sahl vah dhawrdd /, 1904 89, Spanish painter and illustrator. * * * ▪ China Wade Giles romanization Ta li , formerly Xiaguan city, western Yunnan sheng (province), southwestern China. It is… …
83Finland — /fin leuhnd/, n. 1. Finnish, Suomi. a republic in N Europe: formerly a province of the Russian Empire. 5,109,148; 130,119 sq. mi. (337,010 sq. km). Cap.: Helsinki. 2. Gulf of, an arm of the Baltic, S of Finland. * * * Finland Introduction Finland …
84Liuzhou — /lyooh joh /, n. Pinyin. a city in central Guangxi Zhuang region, in S China. 158,800. Also, Liuchou, Liuchow. Formerly, Maping. * * * ▪ China Wade Giles romanization Liu chou , formerly Maping city, central Zhuang Autonomous Region of… …
85Sierra Leone — Sierra Leonean /lee oh nee euhn/. /lee oh nee, lee ohn / an independent republic in W Africa: member of the Commonwealth of Nations; formerly a British colony and protectorate. 4,891,546; 27,925 sq. mi. (72,326 sq. km). Cap.: Freetown. * * *… …
86United States — a republic in the N Western Hemisphere comprising 48 conterminous states, the District of Columbia, and Alaska in North America, and Hawaii in the N Pacific. 267,954,767; conterminous United States, 3,022,387 sq. mi. (7,827,982 sq. km); with… …
87Calendar of 2002 — ▪ 2003 January I will not wait on events while dangers gather. I will not stand by as peril draws closer and closer. The United States of America will not permit the world s most dangerous regimes to threaten us with the world s most destructive… …
88Protein adulteration in the People's Republic of China — refers to the adulteration and contamination of several food and feed ingredients with inexpensive melamine and other compounds such as cyanuric acid, ammeline and ammelide. These adulterants can be used to inflate the apparent protein content of …
89Concrete densifier — A concrete densifier is a chemical applied to a concrete surface in order to fill pores, increasing surface density. Chemical densifiers are used on polished and non polished concrete to reduce dusting and wear; on polished concrete surfaces… …
90Polished concrete — Black basalt polished concrete floor Polished concrete is concrete that has been treated with a chemical densifier and ground with progressively finer grinding tools. The grinding tools are usually progressive grits of diamond grinding cup wheels …
