CHEMICAL INDUSTRY
Urea is a
raw material forthe manufacture of twomain classes of materials:urea-formaldehyde resins
and
urea-melamine-formaldehyde used in marineplywood.
AGRICULTURE
More than
9O% of world industrial production of urea is destined for useas a nitrogen-release fertilizer.
Urea has the
highest nitrogen con-tent of all solid nitrogenous fertilizersin common use.
Therefore,
it has the lowest transpor-tation costs per unit of nitrogen nutri-ent.
