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Du Pont de Nemours

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Du Pont de Ne·mours  (d pnt d n-mr, dü pô), Pierre Samuel 1739-1817.
French-born economist and politician who took part in negotiations after the American Revolution (1783) and in the acquisition of the Louisiana Territory (1803). His son Éleuthère Irénée (1771-1834) established a gunpowder works in Delaware (1802) that developed into the chemical firm of E.I. Du Pont de Nemours and Company. His grandson Samuel Francis (1803-1865) was a Union admiral during the Civil War.


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du Pont de Nemours and Company has received a patent for an improved flexible polyvinyl chloride composition that resists UV light induced yellowing and mechanical degradation, the polyvinyl chloride composition having a coated titanium dioxide white pigment in an amount ranging from 0.
du Pont de Nemours and Company (Wilmington, DE) has patented an isolated nucleic acid fragment encoding an enzyme involved in lipid biosynthesis.
du Pont de Nemours founded the company that bears his name to the present day.
 
 
 
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