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General Chemistry Principles, Patterns, and Applications, 2011

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4. Name each compound.<br />

a. H 2 SO 4<br />

b. HNO 2<br />

c. K 2 HPO 4<br />

d. H 3 PO 3<br />

e. Ca(H 2 PO 4 ) 2·H 2 O<br />

2.6 Industrially Important Chemicals<br />

L E A R N I N G O B JE C T I V E<br />

1. To appreciate the scope of the chemical industry <strong>and</strong> its contributions to modern<br />

society.<br />

It isn’t easy to comprehend the scale on which the chemical industry must operate to supply the huge amounts of<br />

chemicals required in modern industrial societies. Figure 2.22 "Top 25 Chemicals Produced in the United States in<br />

2002*" lists the names <strong>and</strong> formulas of the chemical industry’s “top 25” for 2002—the 25 chemicals produced in the<br />

largest quantity in the United States that year—along with the amounts produced, inbillions of pounds. To put these<br />

numbers in perspective, consider that the 88.80 billion pounds of sulfuric acid produced in the United States in 2002<br />

has a volume of 21.90 million cubic meters (2.19 × 10 7 m 3 ), enough to fill the Pentagon, probably the largest office<br />

building in the world, about 22 times.<br />

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