CHEMICAL INDUSTRY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does chemical industry mean? 

• CHEMICAL INDUSTRY (noun)
  The noun CHEMICAL INDUSTRY has 1 sense:

1. the manufacturers of chemicals considered collectively

  Familiarity information: CHEMICAL INDUSTRY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHEMICAL INDUSTRY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The manufacturers of chemicals considered collectively

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("chemical industry" is a kind of...):

industry (the people or companies engaged in a particular kind of commercial enterprise)

 Context examples 

Benzaldehyde is found in many foods and is widely used in the chemical industry.

(Benzaldehyde, NCI Thesaurus)

A chemical that is used widely by the chemical industry, and is also found in tobacco smoke, vehicle emissions, and gasoline fumes.

(Benzene, NCI Dictionary)

In the chemical industry, this agent is used in the preparation of various aniline dyes, perfumes, flavorings, and pharmaceuticals.

(Benzaldehyde, NCI Thesaurus)