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        Chapter 9 
         I Introduction 
         II The Australian Chemical Industry 
        i Beginnings 1865-1919 
        ii Fertilisers 
        iii Raw materials from gasworks and coke ovens 
        iv The beginnings of industrial chemical research - in the sugar industry 
        v Explosives 
         III Pharmaceuticals 
         IV Chemists In Other Industries 
         V The Dawn Of Modern Chemical Industry - High Pressure Synthesis 
         VI The Growth Of Synthetic Chemicals - Concentration, Rationalisation And International Links 
         VII Australian Industrial Chemical Research Laboratories 
         VIII The Plastics Industry 
         IX The Paint Industry 
         X Acknowledgements 
        
         
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        3 Alfred Nobel's Australian Patent 556, on Gelignite, 1876.
          
         
         
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