Nouns denoting substances
- carboxylic acid
- an organic acid characterized by one or more carboxyl groups
- ballast
- coarse gravel laid to form a bed for streets and railroads
- amino plastic
- a plastic (synthetic resin) made from amino compounds; used as an adhesive and as a coating for paper and textiles
- porpoise oil
- a yellow fatty oil obtained from porpoises and used as a fine lubricant
- Payne's grey
- any pigment that produces a greyish to dark greyish blue
- almandine
- a purple variety of the ruby spinel
- box calf
- black calfskin leather tanned with chromium salts
- Gd
- a ductile silvery-white ductile ferromagnetic trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group
- cetrimide
- a cationic detergent that is a powerful disinfectant
- animal starch
- one form in which body fuel is stored; stored primarily in the liver and broken down into glucose when needed by the body
- litter
- rubbish carelessly dropped or left about (especially in public places)
- red coral
- the hard stony skeleton of a Mediterranean coral that has a delicate red or pink color and is used for jewelry
- china clay
- a fine usually white clay formed by the weathering of aluminous minerals (as feldspar); used in ceramics and as an absorbent and as a filler (e.g., in paper)
- cordwood
- firewood cut and stacked in cords; wood sold by the cord
- radiopaque dye
- dye that does not allow the passage of X rays or other radiation; used to outline certain organs during X-ray examination
- sulphuric acid
- (H2SO4) a highly corrosive acid made from sulfur dioxide; widely used in the chemical industry
- Swedish iron
- wrought iron of high purity made in Sweden
- dodecanoic acid
- a crystalline fatty acid occurring as glycerides in natural fats and oils (especially coconut oil and palm-kernel oil)
- phenyl salicylate
- a white powder with a pleasant taste and odor; used to absorb light in sun tan lotions or as a preservative or an antiseptic or a coating for pills in which the medicine is intended for enteric release
- brown coal
- intermediate between peat and bituminous coal
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