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Defined Benefit Plan, Plan Assets, Required Notice of Redemption, Period

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Discount rate that pharmaceutical companies must proficde for Medicare Act-eligible prescription drugs.

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Excise Tax, Percent

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Amount of actuarial present value of benefits attributed to employee service rendered, excluding assumptions about future compensation level.

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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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Amount of contribution expected to be received by defined benefit plan from employer in next fiscal year following current fiscal year.

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Assumed rate, for next fiscal year, based on annual change in cost of health care cost benefits used to measure expected cost of benefits covered by defined benefit postretirement plan. Factors include, but are not limited to, estimate of health care inflation, change in health care utilization or delivery pattern, technological advances, and change in health status of participant. Excludes factors for change in composition of plan population by age and dependency status.

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Maximum percentage of employee gross pay the employee may contribute to a defined contribution plan.

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The amount of unfunded commitments for which the entity is obligated, to those certain investments for which net asset value per share is calculated (including by unit, membership interest, or other equity (ownership interest) unit measure) (alternative investments).

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Amount, before tax, of gain (loss) for (increase) decrease in value of benefit obligation for change in actuarial assumptions and increase (decrease) in value of plan assets from experience different from that assumed of defined benefit plan, that has not been recognized in net periodic benefit (cost) credit.

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Retirement Benefits - Narrative (Details) - USD ($) $ in Millions		12 Months Ended
	Apr. 01, 2020	Dec. 31, 2020	Dec. 31, 2019
Defined Benefit Plan Disclosure [Line Items]
Estimated contributions		$ 10.3
Discount percent		50.00%
Defined contribution plan maximum annual contribution per employee percent	2.00%
Pension plan
Defined Benefit Plan Disclosure [Line Items]
UMWA obligation increase due to Cadillac plan excise tax		$ (59.4)	$ (53.0)
Retirement benefits other than pension
Defined Benefit Plan Disclosure [Line Items]
UMWA obligation increase due to Cadillac plan excise tax		$ (39.2)	15.2
Energy debt(k) (l)
Defined Benefit Plan Disclosure [Line Items]
Required notice		95 days
Private Equity Funds
Defined Benefit Plan Disclosure [Line Items]
Unfunded commitments		$ 5.0
Structured credit(h) (l)
Defined Benefit Plan Disclosure [Line Items]
Required notice		65 days
Hedge fund of funds
Defined Benefit Plan Disclosure [Line Items]
Required notice		95 days
U.S. Plans
Defined Benefit Plan Disclosure [Line Items]
Accumulated benefit obligation		$ 908.0	826.8
UMWA obligation increase due to Cadillac plan excise tax		(53.5)	(29.5)
Non-U.S. Plans
Defined Benefit Plan Disclosure [Line Items]
Accumulated benefit obligation		318.6	280.9
Estimated contributions		9.2
UMWA obligation increase due to Cadillac plan excise tax		$ (5.9)	$ (23.5)
UMWA Plans
Defined Benefit Plan Disclosure [Line Items]
Black lung health care cost trend rate		5.90%	6.50%
Black lung health care cost ultimate rate		5.00%	5.00%
UMWA obligation increase due to Cadillac plan excise tax		$ (27.4)
UMWA Plans \| Energy debt(k) (l)
Defined Benefit Plan Disclosure [Line Items]
Lockup provision		3 years
Black Lung and Other Plans
Defined Benefit Plan Disclosure [Line Items]
Black lung health care cost ultimate rate		5.00%
UMWA obligation increase due to Cadillac plan excise tax		$ (11.8)
Nonqualified U.S. pension plan
Defined Benefit Plan Disclosure [Line Items]
Estimated contributions		$ 0.6
Canada Plan
Defined Benefit Plan Disclosure [Line Items]
Black lung health care cost trend rate		5.90%
Black lung health care cost ultimate rate		5.00%
Brazil Plan
Defined Benefit Plan Disclosure [Line Items]
Black lung health care cost trend rate		3.80%
UMWA Excise Tax
Defined Benefit Plan Disclosure [Line Items]
Excise tax percent		40.00%