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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.
MgSO<sub>3</sub>_6H<sub>2</sub>O A white, crystalline powder; insoluble in alcohol, slightly soluble in water; used in medicine and paper pulp.
Industry:Chemistry
AgNO<sub>3</sub> Poisonous, corrosive, colorless crystals; soluble in glycerol, water, and hot alcohol; melts at 212_C; used in external medicine, photography, hair dyeing, silver plating, ink manufacture, and mirror silvering, and as a chemical reagent.
Industry:Chemistry
ZnSO<sub>4</sub>_7H<sub>2</sub>O Efflorescent, water-soluble, colorless crystals with an astringent taste; used to preserve skins and wood and as a paper bleach, analytical reagent, feed additive, and fungicide. Also known as white copperas; white vitriol; zinc vitriol.
Industry:Chemistry
1. Also known as copper chloride. 2. CuCl<sub>2</sub> Yellowishbrown, deliquescent powder soluble in water, alcohol, and ammonium chloride. 3. CuCl<sub>2</sub>_ H<sub>2</sub>O A dihydrate of cupric chloride forming green crystals soluble in water; used as a mordant in dyeing and printing textile fabrics and in the refining of copper, gold, and silver.
Industry:Chemistry
Hg<sub>2</sub> I<sub>2</sub> Odorless, tasteless, poisonous yellow powder; darkens when heated; insoluble in water, alcohol, and ether; sublimes at 140_C; used as external medicine. Also known as mercury protoiodide.
Industry:Chemistry
NaF A poisonous, water-soluble, white powder, melting at 988_C; used as an insecticide and a wood and adhesive preservative, and in fungicides, vitreous enamels, and dentistry.
Industry:Chemistry
Cs<sub>2</sub> SO<sub>4</sub> Colorless crystals with a melting point of 1010_C; soluble in water; used for brewing and in mineral waters.
Industry:Chemistry
MgS<sub>2</sub>O<sub>3</sub>_6H<sub>2</sub>O Colorless crystals that lose water at 170_C; used in medicine. Also known as magnesium hyposulfite.
Industry:Chemistry
AgNO<sub>2</sub> Yellow or grayish-yellow needles which decompose at 140_C; soluble in hot water; used in organic synthesis and in testing for alcohols.
Industry:Chemistry
ZnS A yellowish powder that is insoluble in water, soluble in acids; exists in two crystalline forms (alpha, or wurtzite, and beta, or sphalerite); beta becomes alpha at 1020_C, and sublimes at 1180_C; used as a pigment for paints and linoleum, in opaque glass, rubber, and plastics, for hydrosulfite dyeing process, as x-ray and television screen phosphor, and as a fungicide.
Industry:Chemistry
