- 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.
K<sub>3</sub>C<sub>6</sub>H<sub>5</sub>O<sub>7</sub>_H<sub>2</sub>O Odorless crystals with saline taste; soluble in water and glycerol, deliquesent and insoluble in alcohol; decomposes about 230_C; used in medicine.
Industry:Chemistry
(Cl(CH<sub>3</sub>)<sub>3</sub>N(CH<sub>2</sub>)<sub>2</sub>OOCH<sub>2</sub>)<sub>2</sub>_2H<sub>2</sub>O Water-soluble white crystals with a bitter taste, melts at 162_C; used in medicine.
Industry:Chemistry
A colorless liquid, boiling at 15_C, water-soluble; used as a solvent, as a dye intermediate, and in organic synthesis. Also known as aminoethane; ethamine.
Industry:Chemistry
An insoluble pigment formed in the acid hydrolysis of a protein that contains tryptophan.
Industry:Chemistry
HSCH<sub>2</sub>CH<sub>2</sub>OH Mobile liquid, water-white; soluble in water, benzene, ether, and most organic solvents; boils at 157_C; used as a solvent, chemical intermediate, and reducing agent.
Industry:Chemistry
A reaction in which a nucleophile bonds to a carbon atom in a molecule, displacing a leaving group. Also known as nucleophilic displacement.
Industry:Chemistry
(H<sub>2</sub>CCHCl)x Polymer of vinyl chloride; tasteless, odorless; insoluble in most organic solvents; a member of the family of vinyl resins; used in soft flexible films for food packaging and in molded rigid products such as pipes, fibers, upholstery, and bristles. Abbreviated PVC.
Industry:Chemistry
The prevention or retardation of chemical reaction because of neighboring groups on the same molecule; for example, ortho-substituted aromatic acids are more difficult to esterify than are the meta and para substitutions.
Industry:Chemistry
CH<sub>3</sub>CHCHCO<sub>2</sub>C<sub>2</sub>H<sub>5</sub> A compound with a pungent aroma; boiling point of 143–147_C, soluble in water, soluble in ether; one of two isomeric forms used as an organic intermediate, a solvent for cellulose esters, and as a plasticizer for acrylic resins.
Industry:Chemistry
Unsaturated liquid vegetable oil that has had hydrogen catalytically added so as to convert the oil to a hydrogen-saturated solid.
Industry:Chemistry
