- Industry: Energy
- Number of terms: 18218
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The American Gas Association represents local energy companies that deliver natural gas throughout the United States.
This refers to certain approved methods of computing depreciation allowance for federal and/or state income tax purposes. These methods permit relatively larger depreciation charges during the earlier years, in contrast to the straight-line method, under which the annual charges are the same for each year. This is sometimes referred to as accelerated depreciation.
Industry:Energy
Abnormally acidic rainfall, most often containing dilute concentrations of sulfuric acid or nitric acid.
Industry:Energy
Destruction of a metal by chemical or electrochemical reaction with its environment.
Industry:Energy
Natural gas consumed in the operation of a natural gas pipeline, primarily in compressors.
Industry:Energy
A friction coupling adjusted to slip at a predetermined torque to protect the rest of the system from overload.
Industry:Energy
A polymer prepared by the polymerization of propylene as the sole monomer.
Industry:Energy
Account(s) shown on a corporation's balance sheet, typically a net liability, that represents a future (deferred) claim by the government against the corporation's assets. Deferred income taxes arise from the use of accelerated or liberalized depreciation for tax purposes instead of straight-line or other non-liberalized depreciation methods used for book purposes, and from other temporary differences in the recognition of revenue and expense items for income tax purposes and for financial reporting purposes.
Industry:Energy
Those costs (e.g., supervisory costs) not directly assignable to either construction or operation accounts which are accumulated in clearing accounts to be distributed to appropriate accounts on some reasonable basis. Compare COSTS, COMMON.
Industry:Energy
A fuel-air control system that operates by means of mechanical linkage of related valves, common in industrial combustion systems.
Industry:Energy
