- Industrie: Printing & publishing
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McGraw Hill Financial, Inc. is an American publicly traded corporation headquartered in Rockefeller Center in New York City. Its primary areas of business are financial, publishing, and business services.
C<sub>6</sub>H<sub>11</sub>OH An oily, colorless, hygroscopic liquid with a camphorlike odor and a boiling point of 160.9_C; used in soapmaking, insecticides, dry cleaning, plasticizers, and germicides. Also known as hexahydrophenol.
Industry:Chemistry
C<sub>9</sub>H<sub>6</sub>Cl<sub>6</sub>O<sub>3</sub>S A tan solid that melts between _10 and 100_C; used as an insecticide and miticide on vegetable and forage crops, on ornamental flowers, and in controlling termites and tsetse flies.
Industry:Chemistry
A class of compounds that have the grouping C(OH)_(OR) and that result from the reaction of an aldehyde and alcohol.
Industry:Chemistry
LiC<sub>18</sub>H<sub>35</sub>O<sub>2</sub> A white, crystalline compound with a melting point of 220_C; used in cosmetics, plastics, and greases, and as a corrosion inhibitor in petroleum.
Industry:Chemistry
C<sub>10</sub>H<sub>7</sub>NHCSNH<sub>2</sub> A crystalline compound with a melting point of 198_C; soluble in water, acetone, triethylene glycol, and hot alcohol; used as a poison to control the adult Norway rat.
Industry:Chemistry
A chemical prefix meaning many; for example, a polymer is made of a number of single molecules known as monomers, as polyethylene is made from ethylene.
Industry:Chemistry
Na<sub>2</sub> U<sub>2</sub>O<sub>7</sub>_6H<sub>2</sub>O A yellow-orange solid, soluble in dilute acids; used for colored glazes on ceramics and in the manufacture of fluorescent uranium glass. Also known as uranium yellow.
Industry:Chemistry
C<sub>2</sub>H<sub>2</sub> A colorless, highly flammable gas that is explosive when compressed; the simplest compound containing a triple bond; used in organic synthesis and as a welding fuel. Also known as ethyne.
Industry:Chemistry
One of two conformations of a molecule whose interconversion is slow enough to allow separation and isolation under predetermined conditions.
Industry:Chemistry
CH<sub>3</sub>(CH<sub>2</sub>)<sub>8</sub>COOH A fatty acid found in oils and animal fats.
Industry:Chemistry
