Commodity chemicals (or bulk commodities or bulk chemicals) are a group of chemicals that are made on a very large scale to satisfy global markets. The...
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Specialty chemicals (also called specialties or effect chemicals) are particular chemical products which provide a wide variety of effects on which many...
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materials (oil, natural gas, air, water, metals, and minerals) into commodity chemicals for industrial and consumer products. It includes industries for...
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of chemicals, chemicals produced by chemical industry can be divided essentially into three broad categories: commodity chemicals: are chemicals produced...
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Petrochemical (redirect from Petroleum chemicals)
petrochemicals. Like commodity chemicals, petrochemicals are made on a very large scale. Petrochemical manufacturing units differ from commodity chemical plants in...
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products such as chemicals and computer memory. Popular commodities include crude oil, corn, and gold. Other definitions of commodity include something...
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A chemical plant is an industrial process plant that manufactures (or otherwise processes) chemicals, usually on a large scale. The general objective of...
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acquisitions, the company had to sell off its commodity chemicals businesses: Disposals of bulk chemicals businesses at that time included the sale of...
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Methanol (category Commodity chemicals)
million tons produced annually, it is used as a precursor to other commodity chemicals, including formaldehyde, acetic acid, methyl tert-butyl ether, methyl...
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discipline. George E. Davis Chemical Industry Chemical plant commodity chemicals speciality chemicals fine chemicals Institution of Chemical Engineers Northeast...
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Materials 151010 Chemicals 15101010 Commodity Chemicals 15101020 Diversified Chemicals 15101030 Fertilizers & Agricultural Chemicals 15101040 Industrial...
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Calcium oxide (category Articles containing unverified chemical infoboxes)
Both it and the chemical derivative calcium hydroxide (of which quicklime is the base anhydride) are important commodity chemicals. Calcium oxide is...
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Hard commodities are mined, such as gold and oil. Futures contracts are the oldest way of investing in commodities.[citation needed] Commodity markets...
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Alkylation (category Chemical processes)
are repaired via the Base Excision Repair (BER) pathway. Several commodity chemicals are produced by alkylation. Included are several fundamental benzene-based...
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Ineos (category Chemical companies of the United Kingdom)
refining subsidiary of BP, in October 2005 for $9 billion, and ICI's commodity chemicals business in 2001. The second phase between 2008 and 2010 saw a period...
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energy. Petroleum is the dominant raw-material source for organic commodity chemicals such as solvents and polymers. Most anthropogenic (human-generated)...
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Ethylene glycol (category Commodity chemicals)
erected in 1925 at South Charleston, West Virginia, by Carbide and Carbon Chemicals Co. (now Union Carbide Corp.). By 1929, ethylene glycol was being used...
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used in hydrogenations, catalytic reforming and in the synthesis of commodity chemicals such as nitric acid and ammonia. Acids are an example of a homogeneous...
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Engineering (section Chemical engineering)
order to carry out chemical processes on a commercial scale, such as the manufacture of commodity chemicals, specialty chemicals, petroleum refining...
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Tritan copolyester (redirect from SK Chemicals Ecozen)
German Glaskoch [de] (Leonardo) Teqton since 2009 and the South-Korean SK Chemicals' Ecozen, a glycol-modified polyethylene terephthalate (PETG) since 2010/2011...
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Toluene (category Commodity chemicals)
->[t^o]C6H5CH3 + H2O}}} Toluene is one of the most abundantly produced chemicals. Its main uses are (1) as a precursor to benzene and xylenes, (2) as a...
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industrial fermentation has widespread applications in chemical industry. Commodity chemicals, such as acetic acid, citric acid, and ethanol are made...
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Ethanol (redirect from Chemical derivatives of ethanol)
laboratory and industrial applications, where water will react with other chemicals, and as fuel alcohol. Spectroscopic ethanol is an absolute ethanol with...
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Phenol (category Commodity chemicals)
year) from petroleum-derived feedstocks. It is an important industrial commodity as a precursor to many materials and useful compounds. It is primarily...
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Terephthalic acid (category Commodity chemicals)
organic compound with formula C6H4(CO2H)2. This white solid is a commodity chemical, used principally as a precursor to the polyester PET, used to make...
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Propylene (category Commodity chemicals)
Industrial Chemicals, Third edition, 2011, ISBN 978-0-9522674-3-0, pages 7766-9 "Product Safety Assessment(PSA): Propylene". Dow Chemical Co. Archived...
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Acetone (category Commodity chemicals)
is cheap, volatile, and dissolves or decomposes with most laboratory chemicals, an acetone rinse is the standard technique to remove solid resides from...
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White spirit (category Commodity chemicals)
risk. White spirit has a characteristic unpleasant kerosene-like odor. Chemical manufacturers have developed a low odor version of mineral turpentine which...
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Xylene (category Commodity chemicals)
irritant and strips the skin of its oils, making it more permeable to other chemicals. The use of impervious gloves and masks, along with respirators where...
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Naphtha (category Commodity chemicals)
Richard P. (eds.). Sittig's Handbook of Pesticides and Agricultural Chemicals. William Andrew. p. 636. ISBN 9780815519034. "Slovenské slovníky". Slovnik...
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