a colorless pungent liquid widely used in manufacturing plastics and pharmaceuticals
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a chemical substance that repels animals
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any of various water-soluble compounds having a sour taste and capable of turning litmus red and reacting with a base to form a salt
Used in the same subject area: Chemistry, General chemistry, Environmental science, Pollution.an unsaturated liquid carboxylic acid used in the manufacture of acrylic resins
Used in the same subject area: Chemistry, General chemistry, Environmental science, Pollution.a carboxylic acid used in the manufacture of nylon
Used in the same subject area: Chemistry, General chemistry, Environmental science, Pollution.acid used especially in the production of fertilizers and explosives and rocket fuels
Used in the same subject area: Chemistry, General chemistry, Environmental science, Pollution.a white crystalline acid derived from pyrimidine; used in preparing barbiturate drugs
Used in the same subject area: Chemistry, General chemistry, Environmental science, Pollution.a white crystalline solid occurring in many resins
Used in the same subject area: Chemistry, General chemistry, Environmental science, Pollution.an organic acid characterized by one or more carboxyl groups
Used in the same subject area: Chemistry, General chemistry, Environmental science, Pollution.valence characterized by the sharing of electrons in a chemical compound; the number of pairs of electrons an atom can share
Used in the same subject area: Chemistry, Environmental science, Pollution, Water and aquatic environments.valence characterized by the sharing of electrons in a chemical compound; the number of pairs of electrons an atom can share
Used in the same subject area: Chemistry, Environmental science, Pollution, Water and aquatic environments.a weak soluble dibasic acid (the parent acid of cyanamide salts)
Used in the same subject area: Chemistry, General chemistry, Environmental science, Pollution.a trimer of cyanic acid
Used in the same subject area: Chemistry, General chemistry, Environmental science, Pollution.a dicarboxylic acid used to make resins
Used in the same subject area: Chemistry, General chemistry, Environmental science, Pollution.an organic compound containing two carboxyl functional groups (-COOH).; "The most widely used dicarboxylic acid in the industry is adi…
Used in the same subject area: Chemistry, General chemistry, Environmental science, Pollution.a colorless pungent liquid widely used in manufacturing plastics and pharmaceuticals
Used in the same subject area: Chemistry, General chemistry, Environmental science, Pollution.any of a class of aliphatic monocarboxylic acids that form part of a lipid molecule and can be derived from fat by hydrolysis; fatty a…
Used in the same subject area: Chemistry, General chemistry, Environmental science, Pollution.a carboxylic acid used in the manufacture of nylon
Used in the same subject area: Chemistry, General chemistry, Environmental science, Pollution.a clear odorless hygroscopic syrupy carboxylic acid found in sour milk and in many fruits
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To separate, as the more volatile or soluble parts of a substance, by distillation or other chemical processes. In this sense extract…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: chemical, substance, repels, animals.The measurement of the strength of acids, especially by a chemical process based on the law of chemical combinations, or the fact that…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: chemical, substance, repels, animals.That attraction which takes place, at an insensible distance, between the heterogeneous particles of bodies, and unites them to form c…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: chemical, substance, repels, animals.A thick, viscous nitrogenous substance, which is the chief and characteristic constituent of white of eggs and of the serum of blood,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: chemical, substance, repels, animals.The separation of a compound substance, by chemical processes, into its constituents, with a view to ascertain either (a) what element…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: chemical, substance, repels, animals.a chemical substance derivable from a mold or bacterium that can kill microorganisms and cure bacterial infections; "when antibiotics…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: chemical, substance, repels, animals.(chemistry) a substance that retards a chemical reaction or diminishes the activity of a catalyst
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: chemical, substance, repels, animals.An elementary substance, resembling a metal in its appearance and physical properties, but in its chemical relations belonging to the…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: chemical, substance, repels, animals.A substance regarded as an element, contained in the atmosphere and remarkable for its chemical inertness.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: chemical, substance, repels, animals.One of the elements, a solid substance resembling a metal in its physical properties, but in its chemical relations ranking with the n…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: chemical, substance, repels, animals.A name given by Prof. Huxley to a gelatinous substance found in mud dredged from the Atlantic and preserved in alcohol. He supposed th…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: chemical, substance, repels, animals.An apparatus for measuring the amount of heat contained in bodies or developed by some mechanical or chemical process, as friction, ch…
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