- 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.
WC A hard, gray powder; insoluble in water; readily attacked by nitric-hydrofluoric acid mixture; melts at 2780_C; used in tools, dies, ceramics, cermets, and wear-resistant mechanical parts, and as an abrasive.
Industry:Chemistry
CdBr<sub>2</sub> A compound produced as a yellow crystalline powder, soluble in water and alcohol; used in photography, process engraving, and lithography.
Industry:Chemistry
PbI<sub>2</sub> Poisonous, water- and alcohol-insoluble golden-yellow crystals melting at 402_C, boiling at 954_C; used in photography, medicine, printing, mosaic gold, and bronzing.
Industry:Chemistry
RaCl<sub>2</sub> Water- and alcohol-soluble, poisonous, radioactive, yellow-white crystals; corrosive effect on skin and flesh; melts at 1000_C; used in medicine, physical research, and luminous paint.
Industry:Chemistry
PbMoO<sub>4</sub> Poisonous, acid-soluble yellow powder; insoluble in water and alcohol; used in pigments and as an analytical reagent.
Industry:Chemistry
RaSO<sub>4</sub> Water-insoluble, radioactive, poisonous, white crystals; used in medicine.
Industry:Chemistry
PbO Yellow, tetragonal crystals that melt at 888_C and are soluble in alkalies and acids; used in storage batteries, ceramics, pigments, and paints. Also known as litharge; plumbous oxide; yellow lead oxide.
Industry:Chemistry
Salts derived from monazite, and with rare earths in similar proportions as in monazite; contains La, Ce, Pr, Nd, Sm, Gd, and Y as acetates, carbonates, chlorides, fluorides, nitrates, sulfates, and so on.
Industry:Chemistry
CdCl<sub>2</sub> A cadmium halide in the form of colorless crystals, soluble in water, methanol, and ethanol; used in photography, in dyeing and calico printing, and as a solution to precipitate sulfides.
Industry:Chemistry
Pb(NO<sub>3</sub>)<sub>2</sub> Strongly oxidizing, poisonous, water- and alcoholsoluble white crystals that decompose at 205–223_C; used as a textile mordant, paint pigment, and photographic sensitizer and in medicines, matches, explosives, tanning, and engraving.
Industry:Chemistry
