George Washington Carver and Chemurgy

Chemurgy, a word coined in 1935 and used until the early 1940s, is little known today. Today, a more modern name is biochemical engineering. Chemurgy is simply the use of farm products, specifically plant carbohydrates, as feedstocks for the industrial production of plastics, paints, gasohol and other products.

George Washington Carver created an interesting array of synthetic by-products from agricultural plants that largely impacted society, for he saw industrial potential for plant- based waste products in southern agriculture.

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