Chemical industry
Chemical Industry
The Chemical Industry (pronunciation: /ˈkɛmɪkəl ˈɪndəstri/) is a branch of manufacturing that produces chemicals. It is a critical part of the modern economy and plays a significant role in numerous sectors, including agriculture, healthcare, and construction.
Etymology
The term "chemical industry" is derived from the words "chemical," which originates from the Latin word "chymia," meaning the art of extracting the essence of substances, and "industry," which comes from the Latin word "industria," meaning diligence or hard work.
Related Terms
- Chemical Engineering: A branch of engineering that applies physical sciences (physics and chemistry), life sciences (microbiology and biochemistry), together with applied mathematics and economics to produce, transform, transport, and properly use chemicals, materials and energy.
- Petrochemicals: Chemical products derived from petroleum. Some chemical compounds made from petroleum are also obtained from other fossil fuels, such as coal or natural gas, or renewable sources such as maize, palm fruit or sugar cane.
- Pharmaceutical Industry: This industry discovers, develops, produces, and markets drugs or pharmaceutical drugs for use as medications to be administered (or self-administered) to patients, with the aim to cure them, vaccinate them, or alleviate the symptoms.
- Biotechnology: A broad area of biology, involving the use of living systems and organisms to develop or make products.
- Plastics Industry: A sector of the chemical industry that produces plastic resins and plastic products.
- Chemical Plant: An industrial process plant that manufactures (or otherwise processes) chemicals, usually on a large scale.
- Chemical Reaction: A process that leads to the chemical transformation of one set of chemical substances to another.
- Chemical Substance: A form of matter having constant chemical composition and characteristic properties.
External links
- Medical encyclopedia article on Chemical industry
- Wikipedia's article - Chemical industry
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