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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.
C<sub>8</sub>H<sub>19</sub>O<sub>2</sub>PS<sub>2</sub> A pale yellow liquid compound, insoluble in water; used as an insecticide for soil insects and as a nematicide for plant parasitic nematodes.
Industry:Chemistry
A large molecule (of molecular weight greater than 10,000) usually composed of repeat units of low-molecular-weight species; for example, ethylene or propylene.
Industry:Chemistry
C<sub>10</sub>H<sub>18</sub> A colorless, water-insoluble, liquid hydrocarbon; used in organic synthesis.
Industry:Chemistry
A branched-chain molecule, that is, one whose atoms do not all lie along a straight line. Also known as isomolecule.
Industry:Chemistry
A synthetic polymer made by the reaction of sodium polysulfide with an organic dichloride; resistant to light, oxygen, oils, and solvents; impermeable to gases; poor tensile strength and abrasion resistance.
Industry:Chemistry
CH<sub>3</sub>(CH<sub>2</sub>)<sub>16</sub>COOH Nature’s most common fatty acid, derived from natural animal and vegetable fats; colorless, waxlike solid, insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol, ether, and chloroform; melts at 70_C; used as a lubricant and in pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, and food packaging.
Industry:Chemistry
The reaction of an aliphatic ester with metallic sodium to form intermediates converted by hydrolysis into aliphatic _-hydroxyketones called acyloins.
Industry:Chemistry
The six-carbon ring structure found in benzene, C<sub>6</sub>H<sub>6</sub>, and in organic compounds formed from benzene by replacement of one or more hydrogen atoms by other chemical atoms or radicals.
Industry:Chemistry
(CH<sub>3</sub>)<sub>2</sub>CHC<sub>6</sub>H<sub>3</sub>(CH<sub>3</sub>)OH A colorless liquid, boiling at 237_C; used in perfumes, flavorings, and fungicides.
Industry:Chemistry
One of a class of compounds that consists of esters such as depsides, but are also cyclic ethers.
Industry:Chemistry
