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What does chemurgy mean?

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Noun
  1. (chemistry) a branch of applied chemistry that is concerned with preparing industrial products from agricultural raw materials.
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In the 1920s and 1930s there was a significant drive to help American farmers by making industrial products from agricultural byproducts, known as the chemurgy movement.
I think it's time to return to chemurgy, making plastics from cellulose and farm products.
Carver blazed a trail for the development of products from plants, a field known as chemurgy.
There is still opportunity to exploit the chemurgy of formalin and develop new and higher priced adhesives and resins.
The laboratories might not have been authorized at all were it not for the influence of the chemurgy movement.

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