Natural resources occur naturally within environments that exist relatively
undistributed in natural form. It serves as raw materials to feed most
industries. Natural economic products offer a vast, virtually untapped reservoir
of chemical compounds with diverse potential uses and provide fundamental life
support, essentially for the survival and for satisfying the wants of man-kind.
Natural economic products provide wealth that is exported to other nations to
earn foreign exchange. The book entitled "Natural Economic Products: An
Encyclopaedia" compiled and arranged alphabetically (set of 11 volumes) and
attempts to create a glossary of such products. This book covers Economic
Botany, Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry, Plant Science, Geochemistry,
Material Science,