Industry, WRE-ʿĀM
Industry, a group of productive enterprises or organizations that produce or supply goods, services, or sources of income. In economics, industries are customarily classified as primary, secondary, and tertiary; secondary industries are further classified as heavy and light.
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wrench, tool, usually operated by hand, for tightening bolts and nuts. Basically, a wrench consists of a stout......
wrought iron, one of the two forms in which iron is obtained by smelting; the other is cast iron (q.v.). Wrought......
yarn, continuous strand of fibres grouped or twisted together and used to construct textile fabrics. A brief treatment......
Ziegler-Natta catalyst, any of an important class of mixtures of chemical compounds remarkable for their ability......
zinc (Zn), chemical element, a low-melting metal of Group 12 (IIb, or zinc group) of the periodic table, that is......
zinc group element, any of the four chemical elements that constitute Group 12 (IIb) of the periodic table—namely,......
zinc processing, the extraction of zinc from its ores and the preparation of zinc metal or chemical compounds for......
Walter Henry Zinn was a Canadian-born nuclear physicist, who contributed to the U.S. atomic bomb project during......
zone melting, any of a group of techniques used to purify an element or a compound or control its composition by......
Al-ʿĀmiriyyah, industrial district of Al-Iskandariyyah (Alexandria) muḥāfaẓah (governorate), northern Egypt. The......