chemical

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This may have led to a buildup of heat in a pressurized tank filled with 7,000 gallons of a chemical called methyl methacrylate, a highly flammable liquid monomer used to manufacture plastics.

From Los Angeles Times • May 26, 2026

Meanwhile, only two sectors have remained bucking this decline, with jobs in chemical and pharmaceutical industries slightly higher since 2019, the report finds.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 26, 2026

Thousands of evacuated residents still are not able to return to their homes after a chemical storage tank at an aerospace company in Garden Grove overheated, creating the possibility of an explosion.

From Los Angeles Times • May 26, 2026

The chemical is irritating to the skin, eyes, and mucous membranes in humans, and can cause respiratory and neurological symptoms with exposure, according to the Environmental Protection Agency.

From BBC • May 25, 2026

It had to possess chemical regularity—otherwise, routine processes such as copying and transmission would not work—but it also had to be capable of extraordinary irregularity—or else, the enormous diversity of inheritance could not be explained.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee