Chlorine: It Sort of Picked Me

摘要

To paraphrase Shakespeare, some are born to an element,some find an element, and some have an element thrust uponthem.When I made the transition to industry in 1978-specifi-cally into Rohm and Haas' business of additives for poly(vinylchloride) plastic-my die was cast. In a year or so I moved towhat eventually became OxyChem-a large manufacturer ofvinyl as well as chlorine; and thus, for the rest of my career, Iwould find myself studying and explaining the benefits and is-sues associated with the 17th square on the periodic table.