Definition of Chemical industry

1. Noun. The manufacturers of chemicals considered collectively.

Generic synonyms: Industry

Medical Definition of Chemical industry

1. The aggregate enterprise of manufacturing and technically producing chemicals. (12 Dec 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Chemical Industry

chemical engineers
chemical equation
chemical equilibrium
chemical evolution
chemical eye injuries
chemical fingerprint
chemical flux
chemical formula
chemical group
chemical hazard
chemical hood
chemical horn
chemical imbalance
chemical imbalances
chemical indicator
chemical industry (current term)
chemical irritant
chemical kinetics
chemical knife
chemical laser
chemical law
chemical lithosphere
chemical mechanism
chemical messenger
chemical nomenclature
chemical notation
chemical oceanography
chemical operations
chemical oxygen demand
chemical pathology

Literary usage of Chemical industry

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. South African Journal of Science by South African association for the advancement of science (1904)
"chemical industry is at present represented by the Dynamite Factory and the ... Outside these two concerns there is practically no other chemical industry. ..."

2. The Mineral Industry (1897)
"The situation of the German chemical industry during the year 1895 was on the whole ... The quantity of raw materials used in the chemical industry and of ..."

3. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1893)
"THE chemical industry of the United States, in common with the 'other leading branches of manufactures, shows a remarkable increase in the decade between ..."

4. The Continental System: An Economic Interpretation by Eli Filip Heckscher, Harald Westergaard (1922)
"chemical industry There was one department, however, ... This is the chemical industry, or, to put it better, all processes where the results of chemical ..."

5. Contrasts in Scientific Style: Research Groups in the Chemical and by Joseph S. Fruton (1990)
"The Baeyer Research School and the German chemical industry Although a considerable proportion of the members of the Baeyer research school sought academic ..."

6. A History of Commerce by Clive Day (1914)
"Development of the modern chemical industry. ... To guard against that error let us consider briefly the development of the chemical industry, which, ..."

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