Home > Earth and the Environment > Minerals, Mining, and Metallurgy > Mineralogy and Crystallography

Topic:emery

Visit our new topic page about emery

emery

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition | Date: 2008

emery see corundum .

Author not available, EMERY., The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition 2008

Related newspaper, magazine, and journal articles from HighBeam Research

	Emery, CF AirFreight merger forms air cargo heavyweight. (Consolidated Freightways Inc. to purchase Emery Air Freight Corp to form Emery Worldwide - a CF Company) Purchasing; 3/23/1989; 566 words ; Emery, CF AirFreight merger forms air cargo heavyweight Consolidated ... Consolidated's agreement to buy troubled airfreight giant Emery Airfreight Corp. comes as no surprise. Industry observers ... overcapacity drive down rates. Consolidated has been wooing Emery for years, planning to expand its airfreight ... Read more
	Emery Telcom receives state recognition for superior service.(Brief Article) The Exchange; 4/1/2002; Jenkins, Tennille; 547 words ; Emery Telcom has been recognized by the Utah Department of Community ... Productions for delivering superior service to its customers. Emery Telcom recently was recognized as a leader in business development ... tremendous honor, said Greg Killpack, general manager of Emery Telcom, Utah is a great place to live ... Read more
	Long time coming Colleagues say morals, respect critical parts of Emery's work The Pantagraph Bloomington, IL; 12/10/2006; Greg Cima; 974 words ; Mike Emery didnt tell his father he applied to be a ... influence - I wanted to get it on my own," Emery said. "I knew my dad could pick up the phone ... get me the job." His father, Albert "Butch" Emery, was an officer with the Bloomington Police ... Read more
	Emery Battles On and Off the Court; W.T. Woodson's No. 1 Singles Player First Defeated Mysterious Lyme Disease The Washington Post; 5/12/1999; Tara Finnegan; 831 words ; Please forgive Katie Emery if she gets sentimental when she watches her 16-year-old son, David Emery, play tennis. Don't be shocked if her eyes ... task for David, but things have changed. David Emery, a sophomore at W.T. Woodson in Fairfax, is ... Read more
	EMERY FINED $6M IN CARGO CASE Dayton Daily News; 12/20/2003; Wes Hills whills@DaytonDailyNews.com; 657 words ; ... Chief U.S. District Judge Walter H. Rice also placed Emery on three years probation during which it must remain ... Resources Division. Roger Makley, an attorney for Emery, declined comment after the sentencing. Rice noted that Emery has no record of prior misconduct and that there ... defendant will be ... Read more
	Growth through diversity: Illinois entrepreneur develops an airpark, then grows FBO, airline services.(BUSINESS PROFILE)(Steve Thomas, Emery Air Inc.)(Biography) Airport Business; 5/1/2005; 1006 words ; ROCKFORD, IL -- Steve Thomas, CEO and chairman, Emery Air Inc. says he left the family dairy farm because ... operations at the private airport, Thomas approached John Emery, owner of Emery Air Charter based at RFD, for a solution that would ... Read more
	David Emery: Staking out the center with decades of experience [Corrected 02/07/06] ; The question is whether voters will regard the former congressman as a throwback. Portland Press Herald (Maine); 2/5/2006; MARK PETERS Staff Writer; 896 words ; ... Portland Press Herald (Maine) 02-05-2006 David Emery: Staking out the center with decades of ... should have included thefact that David Emery ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. House ofRepresentatives ... to Tom Andrews. YARMOUTH -- When David Emery graduated from college in 1970 with a degree ... Read more
	David Emery: Staking out the center with decades of experience ; The question is whether voters will regard the former congressman as a throwback. Portland Press Herald (Maine); 2/5/2006; MARK PETERS Staff Writer; 853 words ; ... Portland Press Herald (Maine) 02-05-2006 David Emery: Staking out the center with decades of ... FINAL Section: FRONT YARMOUTH -- When David Emery graduated from college in 1970 with a degree ... working in the profession he trained for. But Emery hasn't lost his technical side. His campaign ... Read more
	REPORT ALLEGES EMERY IGNORED PROBLEMS- Dayton Daily News; 3/7/2002; Wes Hills and Timothy R. Gaffney (C) 2002 Dayton Daily News; 883 words ; ... part of a corporate restructuring that consolidated Emery and other operations into a new unit, Menlo Worldwide ... The FAA report said the same shop that worked on Emery's DC- 8 engines also overhauled its 727 engines ... raised questions of maintenance oversight by both Emery and the FAA after NTSB ... Read more
	REPORT: EMERY IGNORED WOES Dayton Daily News; 3/7/2002; Wes Hills and Timothy R. Gaffney (C) 2002 Dayton Daily News; 883 words ; ... part of a corporate restructuring that consolidated Emery and other operations into a new unit, Menlo Worldwide ... The FAA report said the same shop that worked on Emery's DC- 8 engines also overhauled its 727 engines ... raised questions of maintenance oversight by both Emery and the FAA after NTSB ... Read more

See all related premium articles

Related entries from encyclopedias, dictionaries, and thesauruses

	Patrice Emery Lumumba Encyclopedia of World Biography Patrice Emery Lumumba Patrice Emery Lumumba (1925-1961) was the first prime minister of the Republic ... 1959 on charges of inciting riots in Stanleyville, but he was set free in time to attend the Round Table Conference in Brussels, where ... Read more
	emery The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English ... magnetite, used in powdered form as an abrasive. ∎ [as adj. ] denoting materials coated with emery for polishing, smoothing, or grinding: emery paper. ORIGIN: late 15th cent. : from French émeri , from Old French esmeri , from Italian smeriglio ... Read more
	emery board The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English em·er·y board • n. a strip of thin wood or card coated with emery or another abrasive and used as a nail file. Read more
	emery Britannica Concise Encyclopedia ... as an abrasive or polishing material, particularly in sandpapers, it has largely been replaced by synthetic materials such as alumina. Its largest application now is as a nonskid material in floors, stair treads, and pavements. emery emery emery Read more
	emery The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology emery coarse corundum for polishing. XV. — F. émeri(l) , var. of † esmeril — It. smeriglio :- Rom. * smericulum , f. medGr. smērí , Gr. smúris polishing powder (see SMEAR ). Read more