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WD-40 is a penetrating oil manufactured by the WD-40 Company, based in San Diego, California. Its formula was invented for the Rocket Chemical Company in 1953 and became available as a commercial product in 1958, acting as a lubricant, rust preventive, penetrant and moisture displacer. In 2014 it was inducted into the International Air and Space Hall of Fame at the San Diego Air and Space Museum.

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Materials 1
Offering Kind
Product 1
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1953 2
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Entity identity for the business product-service.sector GICS enum value this member already carries, per the phase 3 entity-backed browse bucket pilot (docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md, owner decision 2026-09-28 on business product-service.sector, w-bucketpilot-gics-0929). The sector fact itself, with its own citation, remains on the member entity unchanged; this edge only adds the durable entity identity the enum value already names.

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1. Wikipedia: WD-40
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  • Introduction, GICS sector classification
    WD-40 is a penetrating oil manufactured by the WD-40 Company based in San Diego, California.
  • Introduction, offering kind classification
    WD-40 is a penetrating oil manufactured by the WD-40 Company based in San Diego, California.
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2. Wikidata: WD-40
Wikidata Q898762 P571 (inception), matched by label plus product/brand/service class (w-bbfill-business-other-0926, manual resolve after WDQS 504 timeouts)View the Source
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