This is the first example of a life form that can live with a different set of basic chemicals.
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So, the oil price rises and those basic chemicals that are tied to the oil price will also rise.
China, which sees basic chemicals as strategic, is undeterred by market signals.
In 1991, when the government started liberalizing, the brothers figured they could expand in basic chemicals or move into higher-value work for the drug and chemical industries.
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He has spent the past two years trying to sell the cyclical chunks of the group, especially basic chemicals, and to concentrate on research-intensive drugs, which produce higher margins and more stable profits.
Basic Plastics is the largest, responsible for 22.5% of sales, followed by Performance Products (20.9%), Performance Systems (12.4%), Health and Agricultural Sciences (10.2%), Hydrocarbons and Energy (9.6%), Electronic and Specialty Chemicals (9.4%), Coatings and Infrastructure (8.9%), and Basic Chemicals (5.3%).
The Midland, Michigan-based company still gets 40% of its revenues from basic commodity chemicals and plastics.
Scientists use at least 20 million rodents a year in experiments in the U.S., to test foods, drugs and chemicals and to unearth basic truths about the causation of disease and the functioning of the human immune system.
As is the case for many other industries, chemicals companies recognize the need to move beyond basic analytical applications to those than can enable predictive action, and move towards more real-time response.
It is probably fair to say that deep-sea research today is equally important to both pure and applied research, since the discovery of new species not only nurtures basic knowledge but is also likely to lead to the identification of new chemicals, which in turn tend to lead to new applications and new economic markets.
When you look at major parts of the economy like technology, health care, basic industries, energy and even raw materials producers of copper, iron ore and chemicals, you find them flooded with cash.
Here is item number 18 in the tables: bread, white, large loaf, with its values in protein, fat, calories and chemicals, which so impressed the Widdowson-McCance couple in their quest for a reliable basic diet.
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