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Most plastics are made from chemicals that come from petrol, gas or coal. They are made by heating these chemicals at a high temperature. When the plastic is soft it can be poured into a mould. Once ...

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Westlake Corp. is closing four U.S. chemical production units and cutting 295 jobs by year-end as it retreats from underperforming chlorovinyl and styrene operations amid a global PVC market downturn.

Abstract: Coherent optical communication systems have many options in schemes of multilevel modulation and compensation of transmission related impairments in silicon photonics technology. Silicon ...