routinely discarding up to 2.5 million tonnes of their waste materials (Chromate Ore Processing Residue, COPR) at locations around Rutherglen, Cambuslang...

did not know that the new synthetic yellow pigment, zinc yellow or zinc chromate, which he used in the light green lawns, was highly unstable and would...

than 70 per cent of the UK's chromate products including chromic acid, chromic oxide pigment, sodium and potassium chromate and dichromate. Today there...

French scientist Louis Vauquelin discovered the mineral crocoite, or lead chromate, which led in 1809 to the invention of the synthetic pigment chrome orange...

itself], the debts were kept concealed". During the Parliamentary process, Lord Saltoun succeeded in inserting a condition in the authorising Act, requiring...

the title of Earl of Wemyss was bestowed, but the heir to the title, David Lord Elcho engaged in the Rebellion of 1745, and was later attainted, and was...

sixteen months before the locomotive was repaired. In 1879 the chairman, Lord Provost Leslie, died and was replaced by William Ferguson of Kinmundy. The...

purchase the line at cost. The extension was authorised on 3 July 1860. Lord Elgin had declared that he would oppose the Bill unless the railway were...

himself): 67 shares Lady Harriet Margaret Bentinck (his daughter): 10 shares Lord Montgomerie: 1 share The Earl of Eglinton: 1 share Colonel John Boyle of...

significant issue for the company. Houston station was built only because Lord Douglas made that the price of his withdrawing opposition to the bill, and...