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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.
A binary compound containing a chalcogen and a more electropositive element or radical.
Industry:Chemistry
AgMnO<sub>4</sub> Water-soluble, violet crystals that decompose in alcohol; used in medicine and in gas masks.
Industry:Chemistry
CuF<sub>2</sub> White crystalline powder used in ceramics and in the preparation of brazing and soldering fluxes. Also known as copper fluoride.
Industry:Chemistry
Hg<sub>2</sub> SO<sub>4</sub> Poisonous yellow-to-white powder; soluble in hot sulfuric acid or dilute nitric acid, insoluble in water; used as a catalyst and in laboratory batteries.
Industry:Chemistry
1. Salts that have manganese in the anion. 2. In particular, a salt of manganic acid formed by fusion of manganese dioxide with an alkali.
Industry:Chemistry
Cu(OH)<sub>2</sub> Blue macro- or microscopic crystals; used as a mordant and pigment, in manufacture of many copper salts, and for staining paper. Also known as copper hydroxide.
Industry:Chemistry
Na<sub>2</sub> SiF<sub>6</sub> A poisonous, white, amorphous powder; slightly soluble in water; decomposes at red heat; used to fluoridate drinking water and to kill rodents and insects. Also known as sodium silicofluoride.
Industry:Chemistry
Ag<sub>3</sub> PO<sub>4</sub> A poisonous, yellow powder; darkens when heated or exposed to light; soluble in acids and in ammonium carbonate, very slightly soluble in water; melts at 849_C; used in photographic emulsions and in pharmaceuticals, and as a catalyst. Also known as silver orthophosphate.
Industry:Chemistry
ClO<sub>3</sub> _ 1. A negative ion derived from chloric acid. 2. A salt of chloric acid.
Industry:Chemistry
MnB<sub>4</sub>O<sub>7</sub> Water-insoluble, reddish-white powder; used as a varnish and oil drier.
Industry:Chemistry
