Linzhou

Lin·zhou
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proper noun

A county-level city of Anyang, Henan, China.

Scrabble 19

Meanings

proper noun
  1. A county-level city of Anyang, Henan, China.

    Linfeng Aluminium, based in Linzhou in Henan province, also produces aluminium bars and aluminium alloy bars, and has installed electric power generating capacity of 110 megawatts.

    2007 November 6, “China's Zhongfu to buy mid-sized aluminium producer”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 13 May 2022, Oil Report
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    Further evidence comes from Linzhou County, Henan Province, in north China, however, whose boundaries encompass an area of about 2,000km² of dry, hilly country with a rapidly industrialising city at its core, and a population of about a million.

    2008 June, Oliver Tickell, “Nitrates and cancer”, in The Ecologist, volume 38, number 5, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 14, column 2

    The relationship between nitrate concentration in drinking water and esophageal cancer has been inconclusive. We investigated this association in the representative high-risk areas of Linzhou and Anyang City.

    2010, T.T. Yu, A.G. Zhou, X.Q. Li, H.S. Cai, Y.D. Liu, “Nitrate in drinking water in relation to the incidence and mortality of esophageal cancer, Linzhou-Anyang area, China”, in Water-Rock Interaction XIII, CRC Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 497

Origin

  1. Mandarin林州
  2. EnglishLinzhou

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 林州 (Línzhōu).

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Translations

Chinese Cantonese 林州
  • 林州 (lam⁴ zau¹)county-level city
Chinese Mandarin 林州
  • 林州 (Línzhōu)county-level city
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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

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