Question

5. which one of the following categories of
chemical industries has smallet rolume?​

Answer 1

Answer:

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. The plastics industry contains some overlap, as some chemical companies produce plastics as well as chemicals.

Oil refinery in Louisiana - an example of chemical industry

Various professionals are involved in the chemical industry including chemical engineers, chemists and lab technicians. As of 2018, the chemical industry comprises approximately 15% of the US manufacturing economic sector.

Answer 2

Answer:

The scale of chemical manufacturing tends to be organized from largest in volume (petrochemicals and commodity chemicals), to specialty chemicals, and the smallest, fine chemicals. The petrochemical and commodity chemical manufacturing units are on the whole single product continuous processing plants.

Parent Industry: Manufacturing