Basic & Industrial Chemicals
Basic & Industrial Chemicals
Basic chemicals produced in large quantities are mostly sold to the chemical industry and other industries before becoming products for the general public.
There are units on major organic and inorganic compounds.
The organic compounds are either building blocks such as ethene, propene, butadiene and benzene and how they are used to make plastics and pharmaceuticals, or compounds made from these building blocks, such as ethane-1,2-diol, ethanoic acid and methanal, useful in their own right or are used to make other useful compounds.
The inorganic chemicals included in this website are compounds such as calcium carbonate, chlorine, hydrogen chloride, nitric acid, sodium hydroxide, sodium carbonate and sulfuric acid, which are used to make other compounds, including plastics, fertilizers, soaps and surfactants, and building materials.
Inorganic Basic Chemicals
ammonia
bromine
Calcium carbonate
chlorine
fluorine
Hydrogen
Hydrogen chloride
Hydrogen fluoride
Hydrogen peroxide
iodine
nitric acid
Oxygen, nitrogen and the rare gases
Phosphoric acid
Phosphorus
sodium carbonate
sodium hydroxide
Sulfur
Sulfuric acid
Titanium dioxide
Organic Basic Chemicals
Benzene and methylbenzenes
Buta-1,3-diene
Epoxyethane (Ethylene oxide)
Ethane-1,2-diol (Ethylene glycol)
Ethanoic acid (Acetic acid)
ethanol
Ethene (Ethylene)
Methanal (Formaldehyde)
Methanol
Methyl tertiary-butyl ether
Phenol
Propanone (Acetone)
Propene (Propylene)
Urea
