Chemicals for use in polymeric, cementitious, construction, and ceramic compositions; drilling muds and proppants for use in oil well and gas well hydraulic fracturing operations; plastic and thermoset molding additive compounds for use in the manufacture of molded plastic articles, rubber articles, and other thermoplastic and thermoset articles made from synthetic and natural resins, rosins and polymers such as injection molded, blow molded, rotational molded, extruded and thermoformed plastic parts, reinforced and mineral filled thermoplastics and thermoset composites, insensitive munitions, paints, coatings, inks, adhesives, dispersions, master batches, concentrates, recycled polymers, cosmetics, magnetic recording media, rubber mechanical goods, tires, wire and cable compounds, copier toner, surface treated carbon black, surface treated mineral fillers and surface treated inorganic and organic pigments, reinforcing fillers, reinforcing fibers specific to use in the production of articles; antioxidants for use in the manufacture of rubber goods; chemicals, namely, accelerators used in the curing of thermoset elastomer compounds; curing agent dispersions for use in the manufacture of tires, mechanical goods and wire and cable compounds; plasticizers for use in the processing of rubber, polyvinyl chloride and thermoplastics and thermosets such as polyurethane and as reactive and non-reactive diluents for use in epoxy thermosets