Lawn products

Lawn furniture, lawn products, garden furniture, garden tools. .. 

Then, in 1996, came a major strategic shift. Monsanto sold its plastics business to Bayer for 5.8 billion and the rest of its chemical businesses were spun off as a new company, Solutia, with total equity of 3 billion. As a result its revenues in 1997 from bio-engineered agricultural products amounted to 3.1 billion, pharmaceuticals 2.4 billion, and food products (thickeners as well as sweeteners) 1.5 billion. By the end of that year it had put its lawn products up for sale. 

Many medicines, vitamins, household cleaners, and lawn products contain acids and bases or their salts. Identify some of these products at your local supermarket. Are the acids and bases involved strong or weak Some suggestions Maalox , Alka-Seltzer . 

Specialty Chemical Products, Product Bulletin, 5M 682 TGT, Lon2a Inc., Fair Lawn, N.J., 1987. 

Floor mats, carpet backing, and reHef mats have been traditional markets for ground mbber where the material adds resHiency at a lower cost compared to virgin compounds. Certain molded products have also been markets for ground mbber. An interesting use is the manufacture of lawn soaker... 

High product costs limit distribution to high value crop markets. This includes commercial ornamental production such as nurseries and greenhouses, citms production, and strawberry production. Limited amounts are sold to the consumer lawn and garden market. 

The salts content of soils may be markedly altered by man s activities. The effect of cathodic protection will be discussed later in this section. Fertiliser use, particularly the heavy doses used in lawn care, introduces many chemicals into the soil. Industrial wastes, salt brines from petroleum production, thawing salts on walks and roads, weed-killing salts at the base of metal structures, and many other situations could be cited as examples of alteration of the soil solution. In tidal areas or in soils near extensive salt deposits, depletion of fresh ground-water supplies has resulted in a flow of brackish or salty sea water into these soils, causing increased corrosion. 

Mass production parts bumpers, soundproofing shields, cross-pieces, inserts for dashboards, seat frames, containers, welding helmets, ventilator housings, base of lawn-mowers, taping of pipes, pipelines, tanks, long fibre reinforced injected parts. 

And at each point, the lawn was as much a vehicle for the creation and maintenance of social systems as it was a product of those systems. In every period it served to mediate broader ideologies of citizenship and property, interpellating urban subjects as it went. In the process, it became normalized into a predictable kind of aesthetic, one that is inherently cultural in that it came to be normal, expected, and desirable. A lawn, distinct simply from a grassy yard, was established specifically as smooth, unbroken, and homogeneous ecology. 

As lawn historian Virginia Scott Jenkins concludes, front lawns are the product of two elements the ability and the desire to grow and tend lawn grasses. To say that a coherent lawn aesthetic had been established in the late 1900s and that the land economics of the mid-twentieth century made available the space for its creation and the condition for its desire (Chapter 2) by no means assures... 

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