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The chemical industry comprises the companies that produce industrial chemicals. Central to the modern world economy, it converts raw materials (oil, natural gas, air, water, metals, and minerals) into more than 70,000 different products.
Polymers and plastics, especially polyethylene, polypropylene, polyvinyl chloride, polyethylene terephthalate, polystyrene and polycarbonate comprise about 80% of the industry’s output worldwide.[citation needed] Chemicals are used to make a wide variety of consumer goods, as well as thousands inputs to agriculture, manufacturing, construction, and service industries. The chemical industry itself consumes 26 percent of its own output.[citation needed] Major industrial customers include rubber and plastic products, textiles, apparel, petroleum refining, pulp and paper, and primary metals. Chemicals is nearly a $3 trillion global enterprise, and the EU and U.S. chemical companies are the world's largest producers.[citation needed]
Sales of the chemical business can be divided into a few broad categories, including basic chemicals (about 35 to 37 percent of the dollar output), life sciences (30 percent), specialty chemicals (20 to 25 percent) and consumer products (about 10 percent).[citation needed]
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Pumps for Chemical Industry
(Verse)
Wide open skies, poisoned,
A paradise of progress, profit’s gain.
White parking lots, asphalt, traffic, exhaust,
Taste the acid rain.
(Verse)
I hope you know, who’ll reap what we sow,
Our children’s children’s kids.
We wanna to breathe in clean air,
We wanna swim in oceans blue and clear.
(Bridge)
Too busy turning blood to gold.
(Chorus)
Chemicals, chemicals, fall softly in the rain,
But I cannot find words to ease the pain.
Chemicals, chemicals, in each and every thing,
Take your chemicals now to ease the pain.
(Verse)
Drill baby drill, nevermind BP’s spill,
Sealife looks slick in black.
Trash islands float, fish kills soar, ice caps go,
Stocks rise, break out champagne!
(Verse)
We’ve just got one, ride around the sun,
It’s not your own trash can.
We’ve got to seize the moment, turn this around,
Take back the future now.
(Bridge)
Too busy turning blood to gold.
(Chorus)
Chemicals, chemicals, fall softly in the rain,
But I cannot find words to ease the pain.
Chemicals, chemicals, in each and every thing,