Acrylic acid (AA) is an important chemical intermediate in the manufacture of plastics, paint formulations, polymer solutions for coating applications, emulsion polymers, and paper coatings.
Chemicals derived from bovine tissue appear in plastics, paper coatings, rubber and asphalt.
It is used in the preparation of paper coatings, adhesives, and heat-seal coatings and is also employed as a starting material in the synthesis of many compounds.
Although it looks, feels and smells like any other potato, each one is actually a genetically engineered factory for amylopectin, a starch used to make glossy paper coatings, clothing finishes and adhesive cement.
It is chlorinated industrially to a mixture, polychlorinated biphenyl, known as PCB, which is now much restricted because of its toxicity but formerly was used in paper coatings and as a lubricant and a heat-transfer fluid.
The DOJ slammed companies in the businesses of billboards, school textbooks, rubbish collection, wireless telephony, parking lots, milk, radio stations, paper coatings, asphalt and concrete production, software, health care, grain purchases, banking and petroleum-drilling fluids.
