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What are heavy chemicals?

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Actually word Heavy Chemicals use in a broad sense it means the chemicals that are widely used in a country or in a territory.

Also the product of chemical industries that are raw material of other industries are called heavy chemicals.

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A heavy metal is a member of an ill-defined subset of elements that exhibit metallic properties, which would mainly include the transition metals, some metalloids, lanthanides, and actinides. -http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy_Metals

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The expression "heavy metal" is not serious and it is not agreed by IUPAC; a correct definition is not possible.

But traditionally metals with an atomic number greater than then 21 were considered as heavy.

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