- Industria: 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.
N<sub>2</sub>O Colorless, sweet-tasting gas, boiling at_90_C; slightly soluble in water, soluble in alcohol; used as a food aerosol, and as an anesthetic in dentistry and surgery. Also known as laughing gas; nitrogen monoxide.
Industry:Chemistry
Na<sub>2</sub> SO<sub>4</sub> Crystalline compound, melts at 888_C, soluble in water; used to make paperboard, kraft paper, glass, and freezing mixtures.
Industry:Chemistry
NH<sub>4</sub>NH<sub>2</sub>CO<sub>2</sub> A salt that forms colorless, rhombic crystals, which are very soluble in cold water; an important, unstable intermediate in the manufacture of urea; found in commercial ammonium carbonate.
Industry:Chemistry
FeF<sub>3</sub> Green, rhombohedral crystals, soluble in water and acids; used in porcelain and pottery manufacture. Also known as iron fluoride.
Industry:Chemistry
OsO<sub>4</sub> Poisonous yellow crystals with disagreeable odor; melts at 40_C; soluble in water, alcohol, and ether; used in medicine, photography, and catalysis. Also known as osmium oxide; osmium tetroxide.
Industry:Chemistry
Na<sub>2</sub> S<sub>2</sub>O<sub>3</sub>_5H<sub>2</sub>O White, translucent crystals or powder with a melting point of 48_C; soluble in water and oil of turpentine; used as a fixing agent in photography, for extracting silver from ore, in medicine, and as a sequestrant in food. Also known as sodium hyposulfite; sodium subsulfite.
Industry:Chemistry
1. (NH<sub>4</sub>)<sub>2</sub>CO<sub>3</sub> The normal ammonium salt of carbonic acid, prepared by passing gaseous carbon dioxide into an aqueous solution of ammonia and allowing the vapors (ammonia, carbon dioxide, water) to crystallize. 2. NH<sub>4</sub>HCO<sub>3</sub>_NH<sub>2</sub>COONH<sub>4</sub> A white, crystalline double salt of ammonium bicarbonate and ammonium carbamate obtained commercially; the principal ingredient of smelling salts.
Industry:Chemistry
Fe(OH)<sub>3</sub> A brown powder, insoluble in water; used as arsenic poisoning antidote, in pigments, and in pharmaceutical preparations. Also known as ferric hydrate; iron hydroxide.
Industry:Chemistry
(COCl)<sub>2</sub> Toxic, colorless liquid boiling at 64_C; soluble in ether, benzene, and chloroform; used as a chlorinating agent and for military poison gas.
Industry:Chemistry
NH<sub>4</sub>Cl A white crystalline salt that occurs naturally as a sublimation product of volcanic action or is manufactured; used as an electrolyte in dry cells, as a flux for soldering, tinning, and galvanizing, and as an expectorant.
Industry:Chemistry
