Calcium carbide, a raw material for acetylene, however, has other uses.
Natural gas has a variety of important industrial uses, like serving as a raw material for fertilizer and generating electricity.
Nancy Azara's "Passages" complements Judith Barrington's poems by emphasizing the use of wood as a raw material for paper.
Such deposits are mined as a raw material for refractories and porcelain used in spark plugs and other products.
Turkmenistan oil is of a very high grade, both as a fuel and as a raw material for chemical production.
Chromite is used as a refractory and as a raw material for the production of chromium chemicals.
"African culture is only a raw material for the West," said an official who worked at the Ministry of Culture at the time.
Key to finding these solutions will be a shift in perception so that used nets aren't seen as a waste product but a raw material for something else.
"We are even making tests with cocoa skin as a raw material for fibre in pulp, but that is still in a very early stage".
They would also generate useful by-products, such as pure lignin, a raw material for bulk chemicals, and a form of cellulose used in high-value chemicals.
Methanol is used as a solvent, as a raw material for the manufacture of formaldehyde and special resins, in special fuels, in antifreeze, and for cleaning metals.
