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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
CH<sub>2</sub>I<sub>2</sub> Yellow liquid boiling at 180_C; soluble in ether and alcohol, insoluble in water; used as a chemical intermediate and to separate mineral mixtures. Also known as diiodomethane.
Industry:Chemistry
CH<sub>3</sub>(CH<sub>2</sub>)<sub>10</sub>COOH A fatty acid melting at 44_C, boiling at 225_C (100 mmHg; 13,332 pascals); colorless needles soluble in alcohol and ether, insoluble in water; found as the glyceride in vegetable fats, such as coconut and laurel oils; used for wetting agents, in cosmetics, soaps, resins, and insecticides, and as a chemical intermediate.
Industry:Chemistry
A reaction product of zinc with an alkali metal or with ammonia; for example, sodium zincate, Na<sub>2</sub>ZnO<sub>2</sub>.
Industry:Chemistry
H<sub>3</sub>AsO<sub>4</sub>_<sub>1</sub>/<sub>2</sub>H<sub>2</sub>O White, poisonous crystals, soluble in water and alcohol; used in manufacturing insecticides, glass, and arsenates and as a defoliant. Also known as orthoarsenic acid.
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
CH<sub>3</sub>COOAg A white powder, moderately soluble in water and nitric acid; used in medicine.
Industry:Chemistry
S<sub>2</sub>Br<sub>2</sub> A toxic, irritating, yellow liquid that reddens in air, soluble in carbon disulfide, decomposes in water, boils at 54_C. Also known as sulfur monobromide.
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
