Weakness in the performance chemical unit had to do with weak market demand across the globe.

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More recently, at the Americans' request, the Czechs have been quick to beef up a 250-strong chemical-warfare unit in Kuwait.

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By roughly 2008, carbon microfilament capacitive storage devices were able to match the amount of energy stored per unit volume and per unit weight that chemical batteries were capable of.

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"By linking up computer technology with the science of olfaction, we can speed up the creation of new compounds, and it can take us into areas we've never dreamed of, " says Rahman Ansari, vice president of technical affairs at Quest International, a unit of British chemical giant ICI that developed Este Lauder's blockbuster Tommy Girl.

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