Chemical products including organic chelating and/or sequestering agents, industrial chemical products, chemical products useful in softening water, in preventing the formation of metalic soaps, inscale removal, and in metal cleaning and finishing operations; chemical products useful in the preparation and manufacture of drugs, cosmetics, soaps, and detergents; chemical products useful as ingredients of foods and of biological and pharmaceutical products; chemical products useful in agriculture and horticulture and as constituents of insecticides, germicides and herbicides; chemical products useful in sugar treatment and in meat treating and packing, in petroleum treatment and rrefining, in pulp and paper treatment, in rubber treatment, in processing leather, in the treatment of textiles, including scouring, bleaching, dyeing, colour stripping, and the like, and in radio active decontamination,