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Widnes

[ wid-nis ]

noun

  1. a city in NW England, just E of Liverpool, on the Mersey River.


Widnes

/ ˈwɪdnɪs /

noun

  1. a town in NW England, in Halton unitary authority, N Cheshire, on the River Mersey: chemical industry. Pop: 55 686 (2001)


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It ought not to have required much eloquence to convince us that Widnes is unlovely; the smell of it should have been enough.

Similarly we can make a Widnes fog by sulphureted hydrogen, chlorine, sulphuric acid, and a little steam.

Who knows, in a few years perhaps the whole place may be reduced to the desolation of another Widnes.

In the Widnes Copper Works the silver so extracted yields an annual profit of 3000.

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