Organic chemistry

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barium citrate

Chemistry; Organic chemistry

Ba 3 (C 6 H 5 O 7 ) 2 _2H 2 O A grayish-white, toxic, crystalline powder; used as a stabilizer for latex paints.

carbohydrate gum

Chemistry; Organic chemistry

A polysaccharide which produces a gel of a viscous solution when it is dispersed in water at low concentrations; examples are agar, guar gum, xanthan gum, gum arabic, and sodium carboxymethyl ...

decahydronaphthalene

Chemistry; Organic chemistry

C 10 H 18 A liquid hydrocarbon, used in some paints and lacquers as a solvent.

erythroidine

Chemistry; Organic chemistry

C 16 H 19 NO 3 An alkaloid existing in two forms: _-erythroidine and _-erythroidine, isolated from Erythrina species; _-erythroidine has an action similar to that of curare as a skeletal muscle ...

hexacontane

Chemistry; Organic chemistry

C 60 H 122 Solid, saturated hydrocarbon of the methane series; melts at 101_C.

mandelic acid

Chemistry; Organic chemistry

C 6 H 5 CHOHCOOH A white, crystalline compound, melting at 117–119_C, darkening upon exposure to light; used in organic synthesis.

nitrogen mustard

Chemistry; Organic chemistry

Any of the substituted mustard gases in which the sulfur is replaced by an amino nitrogen, such as for methyl bis(2-chlorethyl)amine, (CH 2 ClCH 2 ) 2 NCH 3 ; useful in cancer research.