Chemical

The chemical industry covers the business that uses chemical reactions to turn raw materials, such as coal, oil, and salt into different products. Technological advances in the chemical industry have dramatically altered the world's economy.

Chemical processes have created pesticides and fertilizers for farmers, pharmaceuticals for the health care industry, synthetic dyes and fibres for the textile industry, soaps and beauty aids for the cosmetics industry, synthetic sweeteners and flavours for the food industry, plastics for the packaging industry, chemicals and celluloid for the motion picture industry, and artificial rubber for the automotive industry. The chemical industry includes makers of more than 70.000 different chemicals with global sales worth more than € 1.1 trillion.

Chemicals can be broken down into:

- basic and intermediatechemicals;

- agricultural chemicals;

- petrochemicals;

- plasticsandfibres;

- paints and coatings;

- specialty chemicals.

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Herbicide a chemical that kills weeds

Oxide any of various oxides

Methanol colourless, toxic, flammable liquid used as an

antifreeze, a general solvent, and a fuel

carbonate a derivative of carbon

propylene a flammable gas derived from petroleum hydrocarbon cracking and used in organic synthesis

olefin oil forming gas