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  2. List of dry communities by U.S. state - Wikipedia

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    Arkansas specifically allows local jurisdictions to elect to go dry by public referendum. [ 3 ] California specifically allows local jurisdictions to enact liquor laws that are stricter than state law. [ 4 ] Colorado specifically allows cities and counties to exercise a local option by public referendum whether to go dry.

  3. List of Jim Crow law examples by state - Wikipedia

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    List of Jim Crow law examples by state. A Black American drinks from a segregated water cooler in 1939 at a streetcar terminal in Oklahoma City. This is a list of examples of Jim Crow laws, which were state, territorial, and local laws in the United States enacted between 1877 and 1965. Jim Crow laws existed throughout the United States and ...

  4. Dry county - Wikipedia

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    Dry county. In the United States, a dry county is a county whose government forbids the sale of any kind of alcoholic beverages. Some prohibit off-premises sale, some prohibit on-premises sale, and some prohibit both. The vast majority of counties now permit the sale of alcohol in at least some circumstances, but some dry counties remain ...

  5. Freon - Wikipedia

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    'Freon' is the brand name for the refrigerants R-12, R-13B1, R-22, R-410A, R-502, and R-503 manufactured by The Chemours Company, and so is not used to label all refrigerants of this type. They emit a strong smell similar to acetone. [2] Freon has been found to cause damage to human health when inhaled in large amounts.

  6. Dichlorodifluoromethane - Wikipedia

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    Dichlorodifluoromethane (R-12) is a colorless gas usually sold under the brand name Freon-12, and a chlorofluorocarbon halomethane (CFC) used as a refrigerant and aerosol spray propellant. In compliance with the Montreal Protocol, its manufacture was banned in developed countries (non-article 5 countries) in 1996, and in developing countries ...

  7. List of Superfund sites in California - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of Superfund sites in California designated under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) environmental law. The CERCLA federal law of 1980 authorized the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to create a list of polluted locations requiring a long-term response to clean up ...

  8. List of refrigerants - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of refrigerants, ... Refrigerant concentration limit / immediately dangerous to life or health in parts per million (volume per volume) ...

  9. List of municipalities in Maryland - Wikipedia

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    As of the 2020 United States census, Maryland is the 18th-most populous state with 6,177,224 inhabitants and the ninth-smallest by land area, spanning 9,707.24 square miles (25,141.6 km 2) of land. [2] The state is divided into 23 counties and contains 157 municipalities consisting of cities, towns, or villages. [3]