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Ansul, the Glossary

Ansul is a corporation headquartered in Marinette, Wisconsin that manufactures fire suppression systems, extinguishers, and administers fire training.^[1]

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ADT Inc.

ADT Inc., formerly The ADT Corporation, is an American security company that provides residential and small business electronic security, fire protection, and other related alarm monitoring services throughout the United States.

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Ageism

Ageism is a bias against individuals and groups on the basis of their age.

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Agent Orange

Agent Orange is a chemical herbicide and defoliant, one of the tactical use Rainbow Herbicides.

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Ansul Fire School

Ansul Fire School is a fire school which was founded in 1940 and is located in Marinette, Wisconsin, United States.

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Ansul Islands

The Ansul Islands, named after the Ansul Company (now part of Tyco International), are two islands in the Menominee River and located in Marinette County, Wisconsin, United States.

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Arsenic

Arsenic is a chemical element with the symbol As and the atomic number 33.

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Aspirating smoke detector

An aspirating smoke detector (ASD) is a system used in active fire protection, consisting of a central detection unit which draws air through a network of pipes to detect smoke.

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Bedrock

In geology, bedrock is solid rock that lies under loose material (regolith) within the crust of Earth or another terrestrial planet.

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Beneficial use

"Beneficial use" is a legal term describing a person's right to enjoy the benefits of specific property, especially a view or access to light, air, or water, even though title to that property is held by another person.

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Birth defect

A birth defect, also known as a congenital disorder, is an abnormal condition that is present at birth regardless of its cause.

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California superior courts

Superior courts in California are the state trial courts with general jurisdiction to hear and decide any civil or criminal action which is not specially designated to be heard in some other court or before a governmental agency.

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Celanese

Celanese Corporation, formerly known as Hoechst Celanese, is an American technology and specialty materials company headquartered in Irving, Texas.

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Chemical industry

The chemical industry comprises the companies and other organizations that develop and produce industrial, specialty and other chemicals.

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Chief financial officer

A chief financial officer (CFO), also known as a treasurer, is an officer of a company or organization who is assigned the primary responsibility for making decisions for the company for projects and its finances (financial planning, management of financial risks, record-keeping, and financial reporting, and often the analysis of data).

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Chromium

Chromium is a chemical element; it has symbol Cr and atomic number 24.

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Consent decree

A consent decree is an agreement or settlement that resolves a dispute between two parties without admission of guilt (in a criminal case) or liability (in a civil case).

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Cubic yard

A cubic yard (symbol yd3)IEEE Std 260.1-2004 is an Imperial / U.S. customary (non-SI non-metric) unit of volume, used in Canada and the United States.

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Defendant

In court proceedings, a defendant is a person or object who is the party either accused of committing a crime in criminal prosecution or against whom some type of civil relief is being sought in a civil case.

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Die (manufacturing)

A die is a specialized machine tool used in manufacturing industries to cut and/or form material to a desired shape or profile.

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Draft (hull)

The draft or draught of a ship is a determined depth of the vessel below the waterline, measured vertically to its hull's lowest—its propellers, or keel, or other reference point.

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Ethylene glycol

Ethylene glycol (IUPAC name: ethane-1,2-diol) is an organic compound (a vicinal diol) with the formula.

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Fincantieri Marinette Marine

Fincantieri Marinette Marine (FMM) is an American shipbuilding firm in Marinette, Wisconsin.

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Fire protection

Fire protection is the study and practice of mitigating the unwanted effects of potentially destructive fires.

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Food preservation

Food preservation includes processes that make food more resistant to microorganism growth and slow the oxidation of fats.

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Glycol ethers

Glycol ethers are a class of chemical compounds consisting of alkyl ethers that are based on glycols such as ethylene glycol or propylene glycol.

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Haloalkane

The haloalkanes (also known as halogenoalkanes or alkyl halides) are alkanes containing one or more halogen substituents.

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Harvey V. Higley

Harvey Vanzandt Higley (October 26, 1892 – October 15, 1986) was born in Cheshire, Ohio, and studied chemistry at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, graduating in October 1915.

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Herbicide

Herbicides, also commonly known as weed killers, are substances used to control undesired plants, also known as weeds.

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Johnson Controls

Johnson Controls International plc is an American, Irish-domiciled multinational conglomerate headquartered in Cork, Ireland, that produces fire, HVAC, and security equipment for buildings.

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Lawsuit

A lawsuit is a proceeding by one or more parties (the plaintiff or claimant) against one or more parties (the defendant) in a civil court of law.

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Lead

Lead is a chemical element; it has symbol Pb (from Latin plumbum) and atomic number 82.

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Legal case

A legal case is in a general sense a dispute between opposing parties which may be resolved by a court, or by some equivalent legal process.

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Love Canal

Love Canal is a neighborhood in Niagara Falls, New York, United States, infamous as the location of a landfill that became the site of an environmental disaster discovered in 1977.

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Malayan Emergency

The Malayan Emergency, also known as the Anti-British National Liberation War was a guerrilla war fought in British Malaya between communist pro-independence fighters of the Malayan National Liberation Army (MNLA) and the military forces of the Federation of Malaya, British Empire and Commonwealth.

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Marinette, Wisconsin

Marinette is a city in and the county seat of Marinette County, Wisconsin, United States.

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McDonald's

McDonald's Corporation is an American multinational fast food chain, founded in 1940 as a restaurant operated by Richard and Maurice McDonald, in San Bernardino, California, United States.

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Menominee River

The Menominee River is a river in northwestern Michigan and northeastern Wisconsin in the United States.

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Nitric acid

Nitric acid is the inorganic compound with the formula.

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Parts-per notation

In science and engineering, the parts-per notation is a set of pseudo-units to describe small values of miscellaneous dimensionless quantities, e.g. mole fraction or mass fraction.

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Permeability (materials science)

Permeability in fluid mechanics, materials science and Earth sciences (commonly symbolized as k) is a measure of the ability of a porous material (often, a rock or an unconsolidated material) to allow fluids to pass through it.

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President (corporate title)

A president is a leader of an organization, company, community, club, trade union, university or other group.

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Refrigerant

A refrigerant is a working fluid used in the refrigeration cycle of air conditioning systems and heat pumps where in most cases they undergo a repeated phase transition from a liquid to a gas and back again.

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San Diego County, California

San Diego County, officially the County of San Diego (Condado de San Diego), is a county in the southwestern corner of the U.S. state of California.

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SimplexGrinnell

SimplexGrinnell, a subsidiary of Johnson Controls, is an American company specializing in active fire protection systems, communication systems and testing, inspection and maintenance services.

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Speciality chemicals

Specialty chemicals (also called specialties or effect chemicals) are particular chemical products which provide a wide variety of effects on which many other industry sectors rely.

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St. Thomas Aquinas Academy (Marinette, Wisconsin)

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Stream bed

A streambed or stream bed is the bottom of a stream or river (bathymetry) and is confined within a channel, or the banks (bank (geography) of the waterway.

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Sulfur dioxide

Sulfur dioxide (IUPAC-recommended spelling) or sulphur dioxide (traditional Commonwealth English) is the chemical compound with the formula.

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Tert-Butyl alcohol

tert-Butyl alcohol is the simplest tertiary alcohol, with a formula of (CH3)3COH (sometimes represented as t-BuOH).

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Tyco International

Tyco International plc was a security systems company incorporated in the Republic of Ireland, with operational headquarters in Princeton, New Jersey, United States (Tyco International (US) Inc.). Tyco International was composed of two major business segments: security solutions and fire protection.

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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission

old Logo The United States Consumer Product Safety Commission (USCPSC, CPSC, or commission) is an independent agency of the United States government.

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United States Armed Forces

The United States Armed Forces are the military forces of the United States.

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United States Army Corps of Engineers

The United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) is the military engineering branch of the United States Army.

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United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York

The United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York (in case citations, E.D.N.Y.) is the federal district court whose territorial jurisdiction spans five counties in New York State: the four Long Island counties of Nassau, Suffolk, Kings (Brooklyn), and Queens, as well as Richmond (Staten Island), the latter three being among New York City's five boroughs.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ansul

Also known as Ansul Chemical Company, Environmental record of Ansul.

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1915 establishments in Wisconsin

Chemical companies established in 1915

Love Canal

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