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E. Shelton, U.S. Bureau of Mines, and T. K. Wiewiorowski, Freeport Minerals Co. 

Aristech Chemical Corp. Pasadena, Texas BASF Corp. Freeport, Texas Eastman Kodak Co. Longview, Texas Hoechst Celanese Bay City, Texas Union Carbide Corp. Texas City, Texas 114 99 284 136 330 11.4 19.5 166 13.6 33 Rli Rli Co " Rli Rli... 

BASF Corp., Chemicals Division Freeport, Texas 180... 

Freeport-Me MoRan IMC Agrico Indo Gulf (India)... 

Exxon Mobil Chemical Freeport-Me Moran Georgia Gulf Sulfur Goldschmidt (Germany)... 

Freeport-Me MoRan GFS Chemicals Floneywell International IMC Global Noah Technologies Rio Tinto (UK)... 

Aiago, F. (1972). Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men, tr. W H. Smyth, B. Powell, and R. Grant. Freeport, NY Books for Libraries Press. 

In 1808, Sir Humphry Davy reported the production of Mg in the form of an amalgam by electrolytic reduction of its oxide using a Hg cathode. In 1828, the Fr scientist A. Bussy fused Mg chloride with metallic K and became the first to produce free metallic Mg. Michael Faraday, in 1833, was the first to produce free metallic Mg by electrolysis, using Mg chloride. For many years, however, the metal remained a laboratory curiosity. In 1886, manuf of Mg was undertaken on a production scale in Ger, using electrolysis of fused Mg chloride. Until 1915, Ger remained the sole producer of Mg. However, when a scarcity of Mg arose in the USA as a result of the Brit blockade of Ger in 1915, and the price of Mg soared from 1.65 to 5.00 per lb, three producers initiated operations and thus started a Mg industry in the USA. Subsequently, additional companies attempted production of Mg, but by 1920 only two producers remained — The Dow Chemical Co (one of the original three producers) and. the American Magnesium Corn. In 1927. the latter ceased production, and Dow continued to be the sole domestic producer until 1941. The source of Mg chloride was brine pumped from deep wells. In 1941, Dow put a plant into operation at Freeport, Texas, obtaining Mg chloride from sea-... 

CH3C = CH, mw 40.07, colorl liquified gas bp —23.1°, fr p —101.5° flammable, dangerous fire and expl risk. It is self-reactive, and can decomp explosively at 4.5 to 5.6 atms press (Ref 2). An expin occurred at Dow s Freeport, Texas plant in 1960 while workers were loading a small tank of methyl acetylene. Following this expln, a 2000 gal tank blew up and burned for hours. The cause of the blasts were not detd (Ref 1)... 

DuPont Dow Elastomers, Product Information Literature, Freeport, TX, 1999. 

Analytical and Engineering Sciences, The Dow Chemical Company, Freeport,... 

The only U.S. manufaeturers of trichloroethylene are DOW Chemical in Freeport, Texas, and PPG Industries in Lake Charles, Louisiana (CMR 1986 SRI 1987). These two manufaeturers have a eombined annual production capacity of 320 million pounds (SRI 1987). Prior to 1982, Ethyl Corporation, Diamond Shamrock, and Hooker Chemieal manufactured triehloroethylene (CMR 1983 Mannsville 1992). 

Hitchcock, Ethan Allen.Fifty years in camp and field diary of Major-General Ethan Allen Hitchcock, U.S.A. Edited by W. A. Croffut. Edited by W.A. Croffut. New York Putnam, 1909 reprint, Freeport (NY) Books for Libraries P, 1971. 514p. 

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