Chemical

1. a chemical is a either a chemical element or a matter with a distinguished composition of such elements.

2. chemicals is the industry or trade of producing or manipulating such chemicals.

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Does chemicals include mining?

Should def 2 be moved to "chemical industry" or something like that? The idea with having this sort of an entry is to have a target to link to from descriptions of a nation's economy, such as Gabon/Economy.