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The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
Branche: Printing & publishing
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Company Profile:
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.
Red ferric oxide made by heating ferrous sulfate in the air; used as a pigment and as an abrasive in polishing glass.
Industry:Chemistry
Hg<sub>3</sub> (PO<sub>4</sub>)<sub>2</sub> Poisonous yellowish or white powder; insoluble in alcohol and water, soluble in acids; used in medicine. Also known as mercury phosphate; trimercuric orthophosphate.
Industry:Chemistry
Na<sub>2</sub> PtCl<sub>6</sub>_4H<sub>2</sub>O A yellow powder, soluble in alcohol and water; used for zinc etching, indelible ink, plating, and mirrors, and in photography and medicine. Also known as platinic sodium chloride; platinum sodium chloride; sodium platinichloride.
Industry:Chemistry
Ce(SO<sub>4</sub>)<sub>2</sub>_4H<sub>2</sub>O Yellow needles forming a basic salt with excess water; used in waterproofing, mildew-proofing, and in dyeing and printing textiles.
Industry:Chemistry
MgI<sub>2</sub>_8H<sub>2</sub>O Crystalline powder, white and deliquescent, discoloring in air; soluble in water, alcohol, and ether; used in medicine.
Industry:Chemistry
Ag<sub>2</sub> CO<sub>3</sub> Yellowish, light-sensitive crystals; insoluble in water and alcohol, soluble in alkalies and acids; decomposes at 220_C; used as a reagent.
Industry:Chemistry
ZnF<sub>2</sub> A toxic white powder that is slightly soluble in water and melts at 872_C; used in enamels, ceramic glazes, and galvanizing.
Industry:Chemistry
A class of salts in which there are no detectable quantities of each of the metal ions existing in solution; an example is K<sub>3</sub>Fe(CN)<sub>6</sub>, which in solution has K+ but no Fe<sub>3</sub>+ because Fe is strongly bound in the complex ion, Fe(CN)<sub>6</sub> <sub>3</sub>_.
Industry:Chemistry
HgSO<sub>4</sub> A toxic, white, crystalline powder, soluble in acids; used in medicine, as a catalyst, and for galvanic batteries. Also known as mercury persulfate; mercury sulfate.
Industry:Chemistry
Na<sub>2</sub> CrO<sub>4</sub>_10H<sub>2</sub>O Water-soluble, translucent, yellow, efflorescent crystals that melt at 20_C; used as a rust preventive and in inks, dyeing, and leather tanning.
Industry:Chemistry