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Revenue from Contracts with Customers (Details)	12 Months Ended
	Dec. 31, 2019
Revenue from Contract with Customers [Abstract]
Revenue, Performance Obligation, Description of Payment Terms	50 days

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Revenue from Contract with Customers [Abstract]

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Description of payment terms in contract with customer. Includes, but is not limited to, timing of payment, existence of financing component, variability of consideration and constraint on variable consideration.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/disclosureRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 606
-SubTopic 10
-Section 50
-Paragraph 12
-Subparagraph (b)
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=118956577&loc=SL49130554-203045

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