Business Combination, Consideration Transferred, Equity Interests Issued And Issuable, Conversion Ratio

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Business Combination, Consideration Transferred, Equity Interests Issued And Issuable, Converted But Not Yet Earned

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Business Combination, Consideration Transferred, Equity Interests Issued and Issuable Including Converted But Not Yet Earned

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Amount of equity interests of the acquirer, including instruments or interests issued or issuable in consideration for the business combination.

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-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 805
-SubTopic 30
-Section 30
-Paragraph 7
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6911251&loc=d3e6578-128477

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Weighted average period over which unrecognized compensation is expected to be recognized for equity-based compensation plans, in 'PnYnMnDTnHnMnS' format, for example, 'P1Y5M13D' represents the reported fact of one year, five months, and thirteen days.

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-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 718
-SubTopic 10
-Section 50
-Paragraph 2
-Subparagraph (i)
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Unrecognized cost of unvested share-based awards, other than options, awarded to employees as compensation.

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An excess of the fair value of the modified award over the fair value of the award immediately before the modification.

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Stock-Based Compensation (Narrative) (Details) - USD ($) $ in Millions		1 Months Ended
	Aug. 31, 2017	Sep. 30, 2017
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Amortized to Stock Compensation Expense	$ 144
Equity and Incentive Plan [Member] \| Deferred Compensation, Share-based Payments [Member]
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Incremental Expense	23
Successor \| Equity and Incentive Plan [Member]
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Unrecognized Pre-tax Compensation Expense Relate to Stock Options		$ 24
Successor \| Equity and Incentive Plan [Member] \| Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) [Member]
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Unrecognized Pre-tax Compensation Expense Relate to RSUs		$ 110
Weighted-Average Recognition Period		1 year 332 days
Successor \| Equity and Incentive Plan [Member] \| Employee Stock Option [Member]
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Weighted-Average Recognition Period		1 year 292 days
Merger with Dow [Domain] \| Equity and Incentive Plan [Member]
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Fair value of DuPont Equity Awards	629
Amortized to Stock Compensation Expense	$ 144
Merger with Dow [Domain] \| Common Stock [Member] \| Equity and Incentive Plan [Member]
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
DuPont to DowDuPont share exchange ratio	1.2820
Merger with Dow [Domain] \| Equity Awards [Member] \| Equity and Incentive Plan [Member]
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Fair Value of DuPont Equity Awards, Consideration exchanged	$ 485