11 Facts About Chemical industry

1.

The plastics industry contains some overlap, as some chemical companies produce plastics as well as chemicals.

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2.

Various professionals are involved in the chemical industry including chemical engineers, chemists and lab technicians.

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3.

Chemical industry's powder was made by reacting chlorine with dry slaked lime and proved to be a cheap and successful product.

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4.

Chemical industry opened a factory in St Rollox, north of Glasgow, and production went from just 52 tons in 1799 to almost 10,000 tons just five years later.

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5.

Chemical industry was denied his prize money because of the French Revolution.

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6.

Chemical industry made several refinements between 1873 and 1880 that removed byproducts that could inhibit the production of sodium carbonate in the process.

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7.

Chemical industry partly transformed aniline into a crude mixture which, when extracted with alcohol, produced a substance with an intense purple colour.

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8.

German Chemical industry quickly began to dominate the field of synthetic dyes.

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9.

Petrochemical industry can be traced back to the oil works of James Young in Scotland and Abraham Pineo Gesner in Canada.

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10.

The chemical industry is the second largest consumer of energy in manufacturing and spends over $5 billion annually on pollution abatement.

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11.

Chemical industry has seen growth in China, India, Korea, the Middle East, South East Asia, Nigeria and Brazil.

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