Chemistry in a new key: Surplus, soy, and the history of sustainable enterprise in the United States, 1934-1950

In the mid-1930s, a prominent group of industrialists, politicians, and farmers in the United States rallied around chemurgy, an emergent field of applied chemistry that sought to transform post-World War I agricultural surplus into industrial commodities. Ephemeral but wide-ranging in its scope, th...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: La Rock, Zachary
Other Authors: Paxson, Heather
Format: Thesis
Published: Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2023
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/152666