Rhodia.

Rhodia The word Rhodia has several uses. It may refer to:

Rhodia (fictional planet) a fictional planet in Asimov's Foundation Series
437 Rhodia an asteroid.
Rhodia (company), a French chemical company.

, Paris, France, completed its acquisition of Venezuela-based precipitated silica silica or silicon dioxide, chemical compound, SiO₂. It is insoluble in water, slightly soluble in alkalies, and soluble in dilute hydrofluoric acid. Pure silica is colorless to white. producer Venesil, located 400 km west of Caracas Caracas (kəră`kəs, kərä`–, Span. kärä`käs), city (1990 pop. 1,824,892), Federal Dist., N Venezuela, the capital and largest city of the country, near the Caribbean Sea. Its port is La Guaira. in Barquisimento, Venezuela. As part of Rhodia's development of its precipitated silica business, Venesil's modern production unit for precipitated silica and sodium silicate sodium silicate, any one of several compounds containing sodium oxide, Na₂O, and silica, Si₂O, or a mixture of sodium silicates. Sodium orthosilicate is Na₄SiO₄ (or 2Na₂O·SiO₂); sodium (the raw material for silica) brings to Rhodia an additional annual precipitated silica production capacity of Tover 20,000 tons, and 50,000 tons of sodium silicate to serve the Americas markets.

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Title Annotation:	acquires Venesil
Publication:	Rubber World
Article Type:	Brief Article
Geographic Code:	4EUFR
Date:	Jul 1, 2001
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