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Appendix A: Chemistry in Industry: Tables
Appendix A: Chemistry in Industry: Tables
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Another 22, with chemical sales totalling $15B, are primarily in a wide variety of other manufacturing industries, including photographic equipment and supplies, steel, dairy products, machinery, rubber products, glass, alcoholic beverages, agricultural supplies, lumber and wood products, motor vehicle parts, processed foods, nonferrous base metals, specialty metals, aerospace, and nonmetallic minerals products. Each of these 22 companies classified outside the Chemicals and Allied Products industry had chemical sales exceeding $200M in 1982, and 5 had chemical sales exceeding $1B.
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TABLE A-1 The Chemicals and Allied Products Industry Drugs and related biomedical products Soap, other detergents, and cosmetics Industrial organic chemicals Plastics materials and resins Industrial inorganic chemicals Agricultural chemicals (e.g., fertilizers, pesticides) Paint and allied products Other chemical products (e.g., adhesives, sealants, explosives, printing ink, carbon black)
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1965 1970 1974 1976 1978 1980 1981 Machinery +5.1 +6.3 + 12.5 + 16.7 + 13.3 +25.0 +25.9 Chemicals + 1.6 + 2.3 + 4.8 + 5.2 + 6.2 + 12.1 + 11.8 Nonferrous base metals -0.7 -0.6 - 1.7 - 1.8 - 3.4 - 2.2 - 3.3 Iron and steelmill products -0.5 -0.8 - 2.3 - 2.0 - 5.1 - 3.7 - 7.5 Automobiles (nonmilitary) -0.3 -2.9 - 5.0 - 5.7 - 10.0 - 12.9 - 13.6 Mineral fuels and related materials -1.3 -1.5 -22.1 -29.8 -38.2 -74.9 -71.1 All merchandise + 5.8 + 2.6 - 3.3 - 7.3 - 30.9 - 28.2 - 32.2 TABLE A-4 Employed Scientists and Engineers in Selected Fields: Distribution by Type of Employer, 1980a b Chemical Biological Physicists and Chemistry Engineers Mathematicians Scientists Astronomers Business/industry 86,640 63,710 42,190 39,350 22,400 Academic (Ph.D.-granting)
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Pollak, NSF from "Research and Development in Industry, 1981. Funds, 1981; Scientists and Engineers, January, 1982." TABLE A-7 Federal Obligations for Basic Research in Chemistry: Total Fundinga (Parenthetical: Amounts to Universities and Colleges 1967-1983 Fiscal Total (All Major Supporting Agencies Year Federal Agencies)
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Organic Chemistry 20,175 Marketing and Economics 658 Analytical Chemistry 16,114 Fuel Chemistry 652 Biochemistry 9284 Chemical Information 640 Physical Chemistry 8563 Pesticide Chemistry 634 Inorganic Chemistry 6717 Rubber Chemistry 622 Industrial and Engineering 6000 Microbial Chemistry 412 Polymer Chemistry 5018 Geochemistry 376 Medicinal Chemistry 4064 Forensic Chemistry 314 Environmental Chemistry 3912 Carbohydrate Chemistry 273 Agriculture and Food Chemistry 2973 Fertilizer and Soil Chemistry 228 Organic Coatings and Plastics 2482 Fluorine Chemistry 119 Chemical Education 1496 Other 2327 Petroleum Chemistry 1464 Total 99,879 Computers in Chemistry 1054 Colloid and Surface Chemistry 994 Total Membership, ACS 134,019 Nuclear Chemistry 784 Chemical Health and Safety 773 Cellulose, Paper and Textile 757 Chemistry 331
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