Overview: In the twentieth century, dyes, pharmaceuticals, photographicproducts, explosives, insecticides, fertilizers, synthetic rubber,fuels, and fibers, plastics, and other products have flowed out of thechemical industry and into the consumer economies, war machines,farms, and medical practices of industrial societies. The Germanchemical industry has been a major site for the development andapplication of the science-based technologies that gave rise to theseproducts, and has had an important role as exemplar, stimulus, andcompetitor in the international chemical industry. .This volume exp
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