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Chrysler Town & Country (minivan)

The Chrysler Town & Country was a luxury minivan built by Chrysler from 1990 through 2016, known for Stow 'n Go seating and replaced by the Pacifica.

Chrysler Turbine Car

The Chrysler Turbine Car is an experimental gas turbine coupe Chrysler built in 1963 and 1964, lending 50 cars with Ghia bodies to 203 motorists.

Chrysler turbine engine

The Chrysler turbine engine was a regenerative gas turbine developed by Chrysler from the late 1940s to 1979, powering 55 hand-built Turbine Cars loaned to 203 drivers.

Chrysler Valiant

The Chrysler Valiant was a family car built in Australia by Chrysler Australia from 1962 to 1981, beginning as a version of the American Plymouth Valiant.

Chrysler Voyager

The Chrysler Voyager, also sold as the Chrysler Grand Voyager, is a Chrysler minivan nameplate used since 1984 and revived in 2020 as a budget version of the Pacifica.

Chrysos PhotonAssay

Chrysos PhotonAssay is a commercial gold assaying technology, developed at Australia's CSIRO, that measures gold, silver, and copper in large ore samples in about two minutes without destroying them.

Chrysostomos L. Nikias

Chrysostomos L. Nikias, known as C. L. Max Nikias, is a Cypriot-born American engineer who served as the 11th president of USC from 2010 to 2018.

CHS Inc.

CHS Inc. is a farmer-owned agricultural cooperative based in Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota, describing itself as the largest in the United States, serving customers in 65 countries.

CHT Security

CHT Security is a Taiwanese cybersecurity company and subsidiary of Chunghwa Telecom, founded in 2017 and headquartered in Taipei, providing managed security services and consulting.

Chuanbin Mao

Chuanbin Mao (毛传斌) is a materials chemist and biomedical engineer, a professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong known for engineering filamentous phages for cancer therapy and diagnostics.

Chuancheng Duan

Chuancheng Duan is an associate professor of chemical engineering at the University of Utah known for protonic ceramic fuel cells, reversible electrolysis cells, and a 2015 Science paper.

Chuangyuan Smelter power station

Chuangyuan Smelter power station is a 1,980 MW captive coal-fired power station in Holingol, Inner Mongolia, China, supplying electricity and heat to an adjacent aluminum smelter since 2019.

Chuanxi Gas Field

Chuanxi Gas Field (川西气田, "West Sichuan Gas Field") is a natural gas field on the western margin of the Sichuan Basin, China, operated by Sinopec Southwest Petroleum Bureau.

Chuc Oil and Gas Field

The Chuc Oil and Gas Field is an offshore light crude and natural gas field in the Bay of Campeche off Tabasco and Campeche, Mexico, discovered in 1982.

Chuchupa Oil and Gas Field

Chuchupa is a giant offshore natural gas field off La Guajira in northern Colombia, discovered in 1972 and producing dry gas since 1979 into the national system.

Chuck (engineering)

A chuck is a clamping device that grips a workpiece or cutting tool on a machine tool's rotating spindle, most often a lathe, using radially moving jaws.

Chuck Lenzie generating station

The Chuck Lenzie generating station is a natural gas-fired combined-cycle power plant in Clark County, Nevada, about 30 miles north of Las Vegas, owned by NV Energy.

Chuck Yeager

Chuck Yeager, or Charles Elwood Yeager, was an American Air Force test pilot and World War II fighter ace who first broke the sound barrier in 1947.

Chugai Pharmaceutical

Chugai Pharmaceutical (中外製薬) is a Japanese research-driven pharmaceutical company headquartered in Tokyo, a member of the Roche Group since a 2002 alliance and creator of Actemra.

Chugoku Electric LNG Terminal

The Chugoku Electric LNG Terminal is an operating liquefied natural gas import terminal in northern Kyushu, Japan, wholly owned by Chugoku Electric Power since 2006.

Chugoku Expressway

The Chugoku Expressway (中国自動車道) is a tolled national expressway in western Japan, the second longest in the country at 540.1 km, running from Osaka Prefecture to Shimonoseki.

Chujiro Matano

Chujiro Matano (俣野仲次郎) was a Kyoto Imperial University metallurgist who died in 1947; his 1933 paper introduced the Matano Plane, still used to extract concentration-dependent diffusion coefficients.

Chukavin sniper rifle

The Chukavin sniper rifle (SVCh) is a Russian semi-automatic sniper rifle developed by Kalashnikov Concern in Izhevsk as a successor to the SVD Dragunov, accepted into service in 2023.

Chun Huh

Chun Huh is a retired research professor of petroleum engineering at the University of Texas at Austin, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2018 for work on ultralow interfacial tensions.

Chun‐Lin Jia

Chun-Lin Jia is a German-based Chinese materials scientist who leads a group at Forschungszentrum Jülich and is known for inventing negative spherical-aberration imaging, which made oxygen atoms directly visible in perovskite ceramics.

Chunbo

Chunbo Co., Ltd. is a South Korean fine-chemicals company, established in 2007 and headquartered in Chungju, that makes lithium salts and additives for battery electrolytes.

Chunfeng Oil Field

Chunfeng Oil Field (春风油田, "Spring Wind") is a shallow heavy-oil field on the Chepaizi Uplift in the Junggar Basin, Xinjiang, China, discovered in 2010 and operated by Sinopec's Shengli Oilfield.

Chung K. Law

Chung K. Law is a combustion scientist and the Robert H. Goddard Professor at Princeton University, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2002.

Chungju Dam

Chungju Dam (충주댐) is South Korea's largest concrete gravity dam, on the Namhan River near Chungju, supplying water to Seoul and generating the country's largest hydropower capacity.

Chungking Mansions (重庆大厦)

Chungking Mansions (重庆大厦) is a dilapidated seventeen-story commercial and residential building in Hong Kong's Tsim Sha Tsui, completed in 1961 and known for cheap guesthouses and global traders.