sentences:  It is also a starting material for pharmaceuticals and agrochemicals manufacturing.In the rubber and plastics industries, it is an antioxidant, vulcanization accelerator, and radical scavenger.It is also used as a fixative for textile dyes, auxiliary in some dyeing processes, as a metal extraction and flotation aid, as an antioxidant in fatty acids and soaps, and as a color stabilizer and emulsion additive in color films.