too like silicon or sulfur. The point is though that everything we have we fashioned from the raw earth. Because this book was written on the foundations of scientific research it brings about its points in a very logical and systematicall order. After conducting the history of chemistry, then how we use it, then where we get it from, a next step would probably lead us to who does it. The chemical industry is one of the largest, most complex array of products and people. From paper production to iron ore strip mining the chemical world encompasses it all. But the primary purpose of the chemistry is what it has always been, the pursuit of knowledge. The consumer products that come as a result are just beneficial and lucky offspring of one giant academic birth mother known as chemistry. Approximately two-thirds of this mammoth industry are those that refine produce or manufacture petrochemicals in some way. Petrochemicals are used to produce eight different hydrocarbons, which are then used to create an amazing amount of organic compounds from plastics to pharmasuiticals. There are also a lot of production plants that use inorganic chemicals to produce an equally large amount of materials. After these production plant a much larger network of plants know as chemical process industries. They use the products made by the chemical industry to manufacture the goods we use everyday. These two industries are combined to account for a third of the national domestic gross product. Tow of the largest producers of these chemicals and products are E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. or du Pont and Dow chemical Co. In just on year these two chemical beamoths made thirty-seven billion and eighteen billion dollars respectively. Over the course of about 150 years the chemical industry grew to quite remarkable proportions. When World War One hit the chemical industry had become very important to the opposing sides. With out it we would have seen little or no a...
