COVID-19 Impact on Inorganic Chemicals in Chemical and Materials Industry
INTRODUCTION
Inorganic chemicals represent the physical and chemical properties of inorganic compounds, which consist of various minerals, organometallic compounds and metals. Whereas, organic chemicals render the carbon-containing compounds and inorganic chemicals are the remaining subset of compounds other than organic compounds.
The inorganic chemicals are divided into bases, salt, acids. These categories have different applications in various industries. Inorganic chemicals are used as pigments, catalysts, coatings, fuels, medicines, surfactants, and more. They usually have specific electrical conductivity properties and high melting points, which enables various applications in different sectors. For instance:
Ammonia is used as a nitrogen source in fertilizers, and it is one of the major used inorganic chemicals used in the production of manufacture of plastics, explosives, textiles, pesticides, dyes, and other chemicals (used in adhesives, foams, and tough chemical-resistant coatings), hydrazine (used in jet and rocket fuels).
Chlorine is a greenish-yellow gas at room temperature and atmospheric pressure. Chlorine is used in the manufacture of polyvinyl chloride (used for pipes, clothing, furniture among others), agrochemicals (fertilizer, insecticide, or soil treatment), and pharmaceuticals, as well as chemicals for water treatment and sterilization.
Titanium dioxide, a white powder pigments, which occurs naturally as oxide of titanium, used in inks, fibers, food, paints, plastics, coatings, paper and cosmetics. It has good ultraviolet light resistance properties, also has an increasing demand for its use in photocatalysts.

FIGURE1: SEGMENTATION OF INORGANIC CHEMICALS MARKET
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