Nouns denoting substances
- Dippel's oil
- dark-colored ill-smelling oil obtained by carbonizing bone; used especially in sheep dips and in denaturing alcohol
- sulfur oxide
- any of several oxides of sulphur
- yellow prussiate of potash
- a cyanide compound that is prepared by the reaction of potassium cyanide with ferrous salts; commonly used by gardeners
- acrylate
- a salt or ester of propenoic acid
- tetrasaccharide
- any of a variety of carbohydrates that yield four monosaccharide molecules on complete hydrolysis
- paper tape
- a long narrow strip of paper
- haem
- a complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds
- mucoid
- any of several glycoproteins similar to mucin
- ammonium carbamate
- a salt of carbamic acid that is used as a nitrogen fertilizer
- Glauber's salts
- (Na2SO4.10H2O) a colorless salt used as a cathartic
- threonine
- a colorless crystalline amino acid found in protein; occurs in the hydrolysates of certain proteins; an essential component of human nutrition
- Th
- a soft silvery-white tetravalent radioactive metallic element; isotope 232 is used as a power source in nuclear reactors; occurs in thorite and in monazite sands
- uranium 235
- a uranium isotope with mass number 235; capable of sustaining chain reactions
- wad
- a small mass of soft material
- phosgene
- a colorless poisonous gas that smells like new-mown hay; used in chemical warfare
- Sm
- a grey lustrous metallic element of the rare earth group; is used in special alloys; occurs in monazite and bastnasite
- ammonia water
- a water solution of ammonia
- zinnwaldite
- a mica containing iron and lithium
- ABS
- any of a class of composite plastics used to make car bodies and cases for computers and other appliances
- benzoyl radical
- the univalent radical derived from benzoic acid
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