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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.
ICN Poisonous, colorless needles with pungent aroma and acrid taste; melts at 147_C; soluble in water, alcohol, and ether; used in taxidermy as a preservative. Also known as cyanogen iodide.
Industry:Chemistry
KIO<sub>3</sub> Odorless, white crystals; soluble in water, insoluble in alcohol; melts at 560_C; used as an analytical reagent and in medicine.
Industry:Chemistry
ThO<sub>2</sub> A heavy, white powder soluble in sulfuric acid, insoluble in water, melts at 3300_C; used in medicine, ceramics, flame spraying, and electrodes. Also known as thoria; thorium anhydride; thorium oxide.
Industry:Chemistry
A compound of bismuth in which the bismuth has a valence of _5; an example is sodium bismuthate, NaBiO<sub>3</sub>.
Industry:Chemistry
I<sub>2</sub>O<sub>5</sub> White crystals, decomposing at 275_C, very soluble in water, insoluble in absolute alcohol, ether, and chloroform; used as an oxidizing agent to oxidize carbon monoxide to dioxide at ordinary temperatures, and in organic synthesis. Also known as iodic acid anhydride.
Industry:Chemistry
KI Water- and alcohol-soluble, white crystals with saline taste; melts at 686_C; used in medicine and photography, and as an analytical reagent.
Industry:Chemistry
ThF<sub>4</sub> A white, toxic powder, melts at 1111_C; used to make thorium metal and magnesium-thorium alloys and in high-temperature ceramics.
Industry:Chemistry
BiCl<sub>3</sub> A deliquescent material that melts at 230–232_C and decomposes in water to form the oxychloride; used to make bismuth salts. Also known as bismuth trichloride.
Industry:Chemistry
A halonium ion such as H<sub>2</sub>I+ or R<sub>2</sub>I+; it may be open-chain or cyclic.
Industry:Chemistry
K<sub>2</sub>MnO<sub>4</sub> Water-soluble dark-green crystals, decomposing at 190_C; used as an analytical reagent, bleach, oxidizing agent, disinfectant, mordant for dyeing wool and in photography, printing, and water purification.
Industry:Chemistry
