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Dow Inc., et al. – ‘8-K’ for 3/25/21 – ‘EX-101.DEF’

On:  Thursday, 3/25/21, at 8:31am ET   ·   For:  3/25/21   ·   Accession #:  1193125-21-93471   ·   File #s:  1-03433, 1-38646

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  As Of               Filer                 Filing    For·On·As Docs:Size             Issuer                      Filing Agent

 3/25/21  Dow Inc.                          8-K:1       3/25/21   12:233K                                   Donnelley … Solutions/FA
          Dow Chemical Co./DE

Current Report   —   Form 8-K
Filing Table of Contents

Document/Exhibit                   Description                      Pages   Size 

 1: 8-K         Current Report                                      HTML     41K 
 8: R1          Cover Page                                          HTML     62K 
10: XML         IDEA XML File -- Filing Summary                      XML     13K 
 7: XML         XBRL Instance -- d28732d8k_htm                       XML     30K 
 9: EXCEL       IDEA Workbook of Financial Reports                  XLSX      7K 
 3: EX-101.CAL  XBRL Calculations -- dow-20210324_cal                XML      7K 
 4: EX-101.DEF  XBRL Definitions -- dow-20210324_def                 XML     44K 
 5: EX-101.LAB  XBRL Labels -- dow-20210324_lab                      XML     60K 
 6: EX-101.PRE  XBRL Presentations -- dow-20210324_pre               XML     44K 
 2: EX-101.SCH  XBRL Schema -- dow-20210324                          XSD     21K 
11: JSON        XBRL Instance as JSON Data -- MetaLinks               15±    21K 
12: ZIP         XBRL Zipped Folder -- 0001193125-21-093471-xbrl      Zip     16K

‘EX-101.DEF’   —   XBRL Definitions — dow-20210324_def

This Exhibit is an XBRL XML File.

                                                                                                                                                                                
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