- Industry: Printing & publishing
- Number of terms: 178089
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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 social position attained by a person largely through his or her own efforts.
Industry:Sociology
An interactionist theory of aging that argues that elderly people who remain active will be best-adjusted.
Industry:Sociology
In a legal sense, a process that allows for the transfer of the legal rights, responsibilities, and privileges of parenthood to a new legal parent or parents.
Industry:Sociology
A standard of poverty based on a minimum level of subsistence below which families should not be expected to exist.
Industry:Sociology
CH<sub>3</sub>(CH<sub>2</sub>)<sub>4</sub>COCH<sub>3</sub> Stable, water-white liquid; miscible with organic lacquer solvents, slightly soluble in water; used as an inert reaction medium and as a solvent for nitrocellulose lacquers. Also known as 2-heptanone.
Industry:Chemistry
C<sub>14</sub>H<sub>12</sub>O<sub>3</sub> A crystalline substance with a melting point of 66_C; used as a sunscreen agent. Also known as 4-methoxy-2-hydroxybenzophenone.
Industry:Chemistry
C<sub>4</sub>H<sub>10</sub>O<sub>2</sub> A colorless liquid with a boiling point of 120.1_C; soluble in water, methanol, and ether; used as a solvent for cellulose, dyes, and inks.
Industry:Chemistry
C<sub>6</sub>H<sub>4</sub>(COOH)<sub>2</sub> A combustible white powder, insoluble in water, soluble in alkalies, sublimes above 300_C; used to make polyester resins for fibers and films and as an analytical reagent and poultry-feed additive. Also known as para-phthalic acid; TPA.
Industry:Chemistry
A reaction occurring at position 1 of an allylic system (with the double bond between positions 2 and 3) in which the incoming group is attached to the same atom (position 1) as the leaving group, or the incoming group is attached at position 3, with the double bond moving from positions 2 and 3 to positions 1 and 2.
Industry:Chemistry
A synthetic compound that can simulate the mode of action of a natural enzyme by catalyzing a reaction at ambient conditions.
Industry:Chemistry
