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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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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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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/disclosureRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 715
-SubTopic 20
-Section 50
-Paragraph 1
-Subparagraph (g)
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-Publisher FASB
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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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Ultimate trend rate for health care cost for defined benefit postretirement plan.

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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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Retirement Benefits - Narrative (Details) - USD ($) $ in Millions		12 Months Ended
	Apr. 01, 2020	Dec. 31, 2022	Dec. 31, 2021
Defined Benefit Plan Disclosure [Line Items]
Estimated contributions		$ 9.6
Discount percent		50.00%
Defined contribution plan maximum annual contribution per employee percent	2.00%		2.00%
Private Equity Funds
Defined Benefit Plan Disclosure [Line Items]
Unfunded commitments		$ 4.0
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		$ 627.2	$ 839.5
Non-U.S. Plans
Defined Benefit Plan Disclosure [Line Items]
Accumulated benefit obligation		304.2	$ 448.2
Estimated contributions		8.1
Nonqualified U.S. pension plan
Defined Benefit Plan Disclosure [Line Items]
Estimated contributions		$ 0.6
UMWA Plans
Defined Benefit Plan Disclosure [Line Items]
Black lung health care cost trend rate		7.00%	5.80%
Black lung health care cost ultimate rate		5.00%	5.00%
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%
Canada Plan
Defined Benefit Plan Disclosure [Line Items]
Black lung health care cost trend rate		7.00%
Black lung health care cost ultimate rate		5.00%
Brazil Plan
Defined Benefit Plan Disclosure [Line Items]
Black lung health care cost trend rate		4.80%