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Other Non-Operating Expense (Tables) | 3 Months Ended
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Mar. 31, 2013
Other Non Operating Expense Tables [Abstract] |
Schedule Of Other Nonoperating Expense By Component [Table Text Block] |
|  | Three Months Ended March 31,
|  | 2012
|  | (in millions)
China generation |  | $ | 31
InnoVent |  |  | 17
Other |  |  | 1
Total other-non operating expense |  | $ | 49

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- Definition Tabular disclosure of the detailed components of other nonoperating expenses. This disclosure may include methodology, assumptions and amounts for : (a) losses on securities (net of profits) and (b) miscellaneous income deductions. + References No definition available. + Details
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