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Although chemicals in the form of natural products have been used by mankind from prehistoric times, man-made chemicals, particularly man-made organic chemicals, came into common use only relatively recently. The first breakthrough occurred during the second half of the nineteenth century when synthetic dyes began to be manufactured on a large scale and synthetic pharmaceuticals came into use.
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Tolba, M.K., El-Kholy, O.A. (1992). Toxic chemicals and hazardous wastes. In: Tolba, M.K., El-Kholy, O.A. (eds) The World Environment 1972–1992. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2280-1_10
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