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Commodity chemicals
Summary
Commodity chemicals (or bulk commodities or bulk chemicals) are a group of chemicals that are made on a very large scale to satisfy global markets. The average prices of commodity chemicals are regularly published in the chemical trade magazines and web sites such as Chemical Week and ICIS. There have been several studies of the scale and complexity of this market for example in the USA.
Commodity chemicals are a sub-sector of the chemical industry (other sub sectors are fine chemicals, specialty chemicals, inorganic chemicals, petrochemicals, pharmaceuticals, renewable energy (e.g. biofuels) and materials (e.g. biopolymers)) Commodity chemicals are differentiated primarily by the bulk of their manufacture.
Chemical compounds are often classified into two classes, inorganic and organic.
aluminium sulfate
ammonia
ammonium nitrate
ammonium sulfate
carbon black
chlorine
diammonium phosphate
monoammonium phosphate
hydrochloric acid
hydrogen fluoride
hydrogen peroxide
nitric acid
oxygen
phosphoric acid
sodium carbonate
sodium chlorate
sodium hydroxide
sodium silicate
sulfuric acid
titanium dioxide
Commonly traded commodity organic chemicals include:
acetic acid
acetone
acrylic acid
acrylonitrile
adipic acid
benzene
butadiene
butanol
caprolactam
cumene
cyclohexane
dioctyl phthalate
ethanol
ethylene
ethylene oxide
ethylene glycol
formaldehyde
methanol
octanol
phenol
phthalic anhydride
polypropylene
polystyrene
polyvinyl chloride
propylene
polypropylene glycol
propylene oxide
styrene
terephthalic acid
toluene
toluene diisocyanate
urea
vinyl chloride
xylenes
Commodity chemicals are produced to supply diverse but usually well-defined industrial needs.
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