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                                                                   Exhibit 24

                                                            MEDIUM TERM NOTES
                                                                     SERIES D

                               POWER OF ATTORNEY

        KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature
appears below constitutes and appoints HAROLD A. WAGNER or GERALD A. WHITE or
JAMES H. AGGER, acting severally, his/her true and lawful attorney-in-fact and
agent, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for him/her and in
his/her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign a
Registration Statement for the registration of up to $400,000,000 aggregate
principal amount of debt securities of Air Products and Chemicals, Inc., and
any and all amendments thereto, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto
and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange
Commission, granting unto said attorney-in-fact and agent full power and
authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and
necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and
purposes as he/she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming
all that said attorney-in-fact and agent, or his substitute or substitutes, may
lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

        Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities and Exchange Act of
1933, this Power of Attorney has been signed below by the following persons in
the capacities and on the dates indicated.




        SIGNATURE                             TITLE                              DATE
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 /s/ Harold A. Wagner                         Director and Chairman              October 20, 1994 
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    (Harold A. Wagner)                        (Principal Executive Officer)

  /s/ Dexter F. Baker                         Director                           October 20, 1994 
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     (Dexter F. Baker)

  /s/ Tom H. Barrett                          Director                           October 20, 1994
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     (Tom H. Barrett)

  /s/ L. Paul Bremer, III                     Director                           October 20, 1994 
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     (L. Paul Bremer, III)

  /s/ Will M. Caldwell                        Director                           October 20, 1994
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     (Will M. Caldwell)

  /s/ Robert Cizik                            Director                           October 20, 1994
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     (Robert Cizik)

  /s/ Ruth M. Davis                           Director                           October 20, 1994
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     (Ruth M. Davis)

  /s/ Robert F. Dee                           Director                           October 20, 1994
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     (Robert F. Dee)

  /s/ Terry R. Lautenbach                     Director                           October 20, 1994
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      (Terry R. Lautenbach)

  /s/ Walter F. Raab                          Director                           October 20, 1994
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     (Walter F. Raab)

  /s/ Judith Rodin                            Director                           October 20, 1994
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     (Judith Rodin)

  /s/ Takeo Shiina                            Director                           October 20, 1994
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     (Takeo Shiina)