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chemicals and raw materials; namely, sodium silicate used in the manufacture of adhesives, detergents and soaps, cement, steel, ceramics, coatings; used in the oil industry for consolidation of fluids, mud drilling, catalyst and cracking process; used in the textile industry as a bleaching bath catalyzer; used in the paper industry, as an agent to remove ink from paper and as a deflocculating agent; and as a soil stabilizing agent; precipated silica used in the manufacture of tires and rubber goods, insecticides and herbicides, detergents and toothpastes; finely divided aluminum silicate used in the manufacture of paints and rubber products