- Industry: 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.
UF<sub>6</sub> Highly toxic, radioactive, corrosive, colorless crystals; soluble in carbon tetrachloride, fluorocarbons, and liquid halogens; it reacts vigorously with alcohol, water, ether, and most metals, and it sublimes; used to separate uranium isotopes in the gaseous-diffusion process.
Industry:Chemistry
CdWO<sub>4</sub> White or yellow crystals or powder; soluble in ammonium hydroxide and alkali cyanides; used in fluorescent paint, x-ray screens, and scintillation counters.
Industry:Chemistry
Pb(SCN)<sub>2</sub> Yellow, monoclinic crystals, soluble in potassium thiocyanate and slightly soluble in water; used in the powder mixture that primes small arm cartridges, in dyes, and in safety matches.
Industry:Chemistry
Rb<sub>2</sub>SO<sub>4</sub> Colorless, water-soluble rhomboid crystals, melting at 1060_C; used as a cathartic.
Industry:Chemistry
UH<sub>3</sub> A highly toxic, gray to black powder that ignites spontaneously in air, and that conducts electricity; used for making powdered uranium metal, for hydrogen-isotope separation, and as a reducing agent.
Industry:Chemistry
Ca<sub>3</sub> (AsO<sub>4</sub>)<sub>2</sub> An arsenic compound used as an insecticide to control cotton pests.
Industry:Chemistry
PbTiO<sub>3</sub> A water-insoluble, pale-yellow solid; used as coloring matter in paints.
Industry:Chemistry
RuCl<sub>3</sub> Black, deliquescent, water-insoluble solid that decomposes in hot water and above 500_C; used as a laboratory reagent. Also known as ruthenic chloride; ruthenium sesquichloride.
Industry:Chemistry
UCl<sub>4</sub> Poisonous, radioactive, hygroscopic, darkgreen crystals; soluble in alcohol and water; melts at 590_C, boils at 792_C. Also known as uranic chloride.
Industry:Chemistry
Ca<sub>3</sub> (AsO<sub>3</sub>)<sub>2</sub> White granules that are soluble in water; used as an insecticide.
Industry:Chemistry
