Car

A loose quantity term sometimes used to describe the amount of a commodity underlying one commodity contract; e.g., "a car of bellies." Derived from the fact that quantities of the product specified in a contract once corresponded closely to the capacity of a railroad car.

Car

1. Informal; a loose term for the number of commodities underlying a single contract. The amount varies by commodity.

2. See: CARS.

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Doubles: Overall av PS100; Char to PS188; Jacob to PS168; Suffto PS154; Zwart to PS144; Belt to PS144; Mule to PS120; Speck to PS92; Welsh to PS76.

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Her victory has ensured that Char will live a long and happy life outside in Dartmoor, with Charlotte saying: "She's very special, she'll be well looked after looking out over Dartmoor."

This Morning viewers left baffled as Britain's Sexiest cow meets Holly and Phil; Char the Jersey cow appeared on the show

Rams - Langside (Char) PS130; Highholm (Suff ) PS120; Lochend (BTex) PS100; South Mid Frew (Tex) PS76.

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So in this paper, it adopts the new research direction of lignite pyrolysis char in the pyrolytic tar catalytic cracking.

The Catalytic Cracking Mechanism of Lignite Pyrolysis Char on Tar

And if the fruits of the ocean are more to your taste, Char Mausum can cater for that too with marvellous mussels, crab and cod creations all available for you to savour.

Cooking up a treat at the Char Mausum

All (bio)char samples exceed threshold values of chrome for premium (bio) char (Cr < 80 g/t).

Assessment of heavy metals leaching from (bio)char obtained from industrial sewage sludge/Is gamybinio nuoteku dumblo pagamintos bioanglies sunkiuju metalu isplovimo ivertinimas

The char formed after UL-94 test was first sputter-coated with a conductive layer, and then its surface morphology was observed by a scanning electron microscopy (Model JSM-7500F, Japan).

Influence of polyamide 6 as a charring agent on the flame retardancy, thermal, and mechanical properties of polypropylene composites

It was found that the fire protection and char structure of the coating was significantly improved by adding 7% EV (by mass) into the coating.

Influence of expanded vermiculite on fire protection of intumescent fireproof coatings for steel structures

Arctic char (Salvelinus alpinus) have a circumpolar distribution and are the most northerly distributed species of freshwater fish (Scott and Crossman, 1973).

Spawning, overwintering and summer feeding habitats used by anadromous Arctic char (Salvelinus alpinus) of the Hornaday River, Northwest Territories, Canada