Nouns denoting substances
- chromate
- any salt or ester of chromic acid
- Zn
- a bluish-white lustrous metallic element; brittle at ordinary temperatures but malleable when heated; used in a wide variety of alloys and in galvanizing iron; it occurs naturally as zinc sulphide in zinc blende
- ylem
- (cosmology) the original matter that (according to the big bang theory) existed before the formation of the chemical elements
- cytotoxin
- any substance that has a toxic effect on cells
- PVA
- a vinyl polymer used especially in paints or adhesives
- tubocurarine
- a toxic alkaloid found in certain tropical South American trees that is a powerful relaxant for striated muscles
- corn snow
- granular snow formed by alternate thawing and freezing
- bimetal
- material made by bonding together sheets of two different metals
- nickel bronze
- a bronze containing up to 30% nickel
- ammonium carbamate
- a salt of carbamic acid that is used as a nitrogen fertilizer
- thiodiphenylamine
- a compound used primarily in veterinary medicine to rid farm animals of internal parasites
- rocket propellent
- an explosive charge that propels a rocket
- milk glass
- a milky white translucent or opaque glass
- de-iodinase
- an enzyme that removes the iodine radical
- asphalt
- a dark bituminous substance found in natural beds and as residue from petroleum distillation; consists mainly of hydrocarbons
- nucleotide
- a phosphoric ester of a nucleoside; the basic structural unit of nucleic acids (DNA or RNA)
- Mg
- a light silver-white ductile bivalent metallic element; in pure form it burns with brilliant white flame; occurs naturally only in combination (as in magnesite and dolomite and carnallite and spinel and olivine)
- safranin
- any of a class of chiefly red organic dyes
- sorbate
- a material that has been or is capable of being taken up by another substance by either absorption or adsorption
- methacrylic acid
- an unsaturated acid (C4H6O2) used to make resins and plastics
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