Central to the modern world economy, it converts raw materials (oil, natural gas, air, water, metals, and minerals) into more than 70,000 different products.

The nation therefore built up the manufacturing and processing industries to convert raw materials imported from abroad.

However, they rapidly convert soluble organic materials in the waste water into methane gas.

In early 2011, the school's directors chose to convert student texts and instructional materials to an exclusively electronic format.

The ship converted raw materials into warm, spicy, aromatic wonders of layered and moist richness.

Downcycling involves converting materials and products into new materials of lesser quality.

Most recycling involves converting or extracting useful materials from a product and creating a different product or material.

He said that grant-makers should use think tanks and political-action groups to convert intellectual raw materials into policy "products."

And this is possible only if they have control over the processes that convert raw materials to products of value.

Although it started as a bogus attempt to convert other materials into gold, it established the knowledge and procedures upon which modern chemistry operates on today.