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Refining (also
perhaps called by the
mathematical term affining) is the
process of
purification of a (1)
substance or a (2) form. The term is
usually used...
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Chinese were
among the
first civilizations to
refine oil. As
early as the
first century, the
Chinese were
refining crude oil for use as an
energy source. Between...
- In metallurgy,
refining consists of
purifying an
impure metal. It is to be
distinguished from
other processes such as
smelting and
calcining in that those...
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Western Refining, Inc., is a Texas-based
Fortune 200 and
Global 2000
crude oil
refiner and
marketer operating primarily in the Southwestern, North-Central...
- Open
Refine is an open-source
desktop application for data
cleanup and
transformation to
other formats, an
activity commonly known as data wrangling. It...
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Refining is the
removal of
bubbles from the
molten gl****.
Alternatively the term "Fining" is used, in this case, "
refining"
refers to the
chemical processes...
- two most
notable of
these were Innovene, the
olefins and
derivatives and
refining subsidiary of BP, in
October 2005 for $9 billion, and ICI's
commodity chemicals...
- In
common usage, salt is a
mineral composed primarily of
sodium chloride (NaCl). When used in food,
especially in
granulated form, it is more formally...
- The
Indian Refining Company was an
American oil
company in
operation from the
first decade of the 1900s to
April 2, 1943. It was
bought by the
Texas Company...
- Zinc
refining is the
process of
purifying zinc to
special high
grade (SHG) zinc,
which is at
least 99.995% pure. This
process is not
usually required when...
