- 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.
A compound that contains two NCO (isocyanate) groups; used to produce polyurethane foams, resins, and rubber.
Industry:Chemistry
HCHO The simplest aldehyde; a gas at room temperature, and a poisonous, clear, colorless liquid solution with pungent odor; used to make synthetic resins by reaction with phenols, urea, and melamine, as a chemical intermediate, as an embalming fluid, and as a disinfectant. Also known as formol; methanal; methylene oxide.
Industry:Chemistry
C<sub>6</sub>H<sub>4</sub>(COOH)<sub>2</sub> Colorless crystals subliming at 345_C; slightly soluble in water, soluble in alcohol and acetic acid, and insoluble in benzene; used as an intermediate for polyester and polyurethane resins, and as a plasticizer. Also known as meta-phthalic acid.
Industry:Chemistry
CH<sub>3</sub>HgCN A crystalline solid with a melting point of 95_C; soluble in water; used as a fungicide to treat seeds of cereals, flax, and cotton. Also known as methylmercury cyanide.
Industry:Chemistry
1. C<sub>6</sub>H<sub>5</sub>OH White, poisonous, corrosive crystals with sharp, burning taste; melts at 43_C, boils at 182_C; soluble in alcohol, water, ether, carbon disulfide, and other solvents; used to make resins and weed killers, and as a solvent and chemical intermediate. Also known as carbolic acid; phenylic acid. 2. A chemical compound based on the substitution product of phenol, for example, ethylphenol (C<sub>2</sub>H<sub>4</sub>C<sub>4</sub>H<sub>5</sub>OH), the ethyl substitute of phenol.
Industry:Chemistry
C(NO<sub>2</sub>)<sub>4</sub> A powerful oxidant; toxic, colorless liquid with a pungent aroma, insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and ether, boils at 126_C; used in rocket fuels and as an analytical reagent.
Industry:Chemistry
A product from reaction of a fatty acid with ammonium hydroxide; used in toiletry preparations such as soaps and in emulsions.
Industry:Chemistry
C<sub>23</sub>H<sub>26</sub>N<sub>2</sub>O<sub>4</sub> A poisonous alkaloid from the seeds of plant species such as Nux vomica; used in alcohol as a denaturant.
Industry:Chemistry
(CH<sub>3</sub>)<sub>3</sub>C<sub>5</sub>H<sub>2</sub>N A liquid boiling at 170.4_C; slightly soluble in water, soluble in alcohol; used as a chemical intermediate.
Industry:Chemistry
