Fifty thousand years ago, a meteor carrying trace amounts of silicone carbide crashed into present-day Arizona.
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The agreement represented a full and final settlement of Union Carbide's civil and criminal liabilities.
It was constructed from silicon carbide to maintain good shape while being as light as possible.
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In a neighbourhood just north of the Union Carbide plant, we found people drawing groundwater from a pump.
In 1984, a gas leak at the Union Carbide pesticide plant near Bhopal, India, killed nearly 4, 500 people.
And both Union Carbide in Bhopal and BP in the Gulf of Mexico were clearly investments that went wrong.
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Even many large companies such as Hoechst AG, Union Carbide, Xerox, DuPont, C.
In 1989, Union Carbide reached an out-of-court settlement with the government of India.
Union Carbide is currently the only domestic supplier of the ultra-high purity semiconductor material increasingly required for defense applications.
Reilley concluded that the company, which had been spun off from Union Carbide in 1992, had to cut capital spending.
When I arrived on Wall Street, the big names in the index embraced DuPont, IBM and Union Carbide.
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Chevron, Goodyear Tire, Union Carbide and Sears Roebuck were replaced by Microsoft, Intel, SBC Communications and Home Depot.
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Crater samples of the silicone carbide were found to have the brilliance, clarity and hardness comparable to that of a diamond.
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The only properties in the Dow Jones industrial index with depressed earnings are Boeing, Union Carbide, International Paper and Eastman Kodak.
By the glow of a small carbide lamp one could distinguish a dozen human figures gathered around three or four tables.
It was signed into law by former President Ronald Reagan after the infamous Union Carbide pesticide factory gas leak in Bhopal, India.
Basic materials plays like DuPont and Union Carbide were pulled along, so long-suffering value players may get their day in the sun.
Next up, step outside the iconic Carbide and Carbon building that houses the hotel for a classic afternoon on The Magnificent Mile.
Union Carbide, which divested itself of its Indian subsidiary's stock in the 1990s, was acquired later by Dow Chemical, based in Midland, Mich.
Gallium nitride, or GaN, converts electrical impulses to light and is grown on the surface of wafers made from sapphire or silicon carbide.
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The secret lies in the extremely light and stiff composite material made of boron carbide in an aluminium matrix used for the engine.
Their results suggest 55 Cancri e is largely composed of carbon (in the form of graphite and diamond), iron, silicon carbide, and, potentially, silicates.
Union Carbide was a popular target for such suits because it produced the asbestos that was used in drilling mud sold by another company.
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Union Carbide, a chemicals firm, has a link to information on the deadly Bhopal gas leak in India on its home page, for example.
Both sapphire and silicon carbide are somewhat exotic, expensive materials.
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Under current manufacturing techniques, manufacturers take their sapphire or silicon carbide wafer and chop, or cut it into individual chips, which get tested and packaged.
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Thousands of people were killed and injured in 1984 when gas leaked out of a Bhopal pesticide plant that was owned by Union Carbide India Ltd.
They look bulky but weigh little, because he constructs them from lightweight materials such as titanium, carbon nanofiber and alusic (a blend of aluminum and silicon carbide).
Dow has come far since its two years of losses, in 2001 and 2002, when it was bedeviled by a recession and asbestos costs from acquisition Union Carbide.
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