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papier-mâché

(Encyclopedia)papier-mâché pāˈpər-məshāˈ [key], art material made of paper strips soaked in a binder of starch or flour paste; it dries into a firm, hard substance. Papier-mâché is widely used in the prod...

Ishinomaki

(Encyclopedia)Ishinomaki ēshēˈnōmäkē [key], city, Miyagi prefecture, N Honshu, Japan, on Ishinomaki Bay. It is ...

Swan, Sir Joseph Wilson

(Encyclopedia)Swan, Sir Joseph Wilson, 1828–1914, English chemist and physicist. He made an incandescent lamp using a carbon filament (1860), 20 years before Edison's lamp. Noted for important contributions to ph...

Sittingbourne

(Encyclopedia)Sittingbourne sĭtˈĭngbôrn [key], town (1991 pop. 35,893), Kent, SE England, on the ancient Watling Street and on the old route of pilgrimage to Canterbury. It is an agricultural market with paper,...

calendering

(Encyclopedia)calendering, a finishing process by which paper, plastics, rubber, or textiles are pressed into sheets and smoothed, glazed, polished, or given a moiré or embossed surface. The material is passed thr...

Pekin

(Encyclopedia)Pekin pēˈkĭn [key], city (1990 pop. 32,254), seat of Tazewell co., central Ill., a port on the Illinois River; inc. 1839. A processing, rail, and shipping point in a grain, livestock, and dairying ...

Piatra-Neamţ

(Encyclopedia)Piatra-Neamţ pyäˈträ-nyämts [key], city (1990 pop. 118,216), NE Romania, in the Bacău region. Food processing, and the manufacture of fertilizers, furniture, ceramics, and paper are among the in...

Bhadravati

(Encyclopedia)Bhadravati bədräˈvətē [key], city, Karnataka state, S India, on the Bhadra River. The city is an ...

money-market fund

(Encyclopedia)money-market fund, type of mutual fund that invests in high-yielding, short-term money-market instruments, such as U.S. government securities, commercial paper, and certificates of deposit. Returns of...

Manchester, cities, United States

(Encyclopedia)Manchester. 1 Town (1990 pop. 51,618), Hartford co., central Conn.; settled c.1672, inc. 1823. Its sawmills and paper mills date from before the Revolutionary War. The city was also known for its prod...