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- made by combining two or more different chemical substances (such as chemical ... * Chemical compound * Chemical element * Chemical substance ...5 KB (683 words) - 19:22, 9 November 2022
- are nonsuperimposable mirror images. A compound is said to be enantiomerically ... environment, enantiomers have identical chemical and physical properties ...6 KB (731 words) - 18:31, 13 February 2024
- == The chemical components of nucleosides == The nitrogen-containing ... lacks an oxygen atom present in ribose, the parent compound.) ...6 KB (865 words) - 10:10, 11 March 2023
- In chemistry, chemical synthesis is the purposeful execution of one ... A chemical synthesis begins by selection of compounds that are known ...10 KB (1,522 words) - 14:47, 5 December 2023
- A chemical reaction is a process that leads to the interconversion ... *Isomerisation, in which a chemical compound undergoes a structural ...12 KB (1,710 words) - 14:43, 5 December 2023
- A chemical element, often called simply element, is the class of atoms ... The elements and their periodic physical and chemical properties are ...10 KB (1,624 words) - 14:39, 5 December 2023
- pentose sugar ribose. Deoxyribose has the chemical formula ... A nucleotide is a chemical compound with three components: a nitrogen ...7 KB (1,045 words) - 05:24, 25 August 2020
- properties, and methods of syntheses of chemical compounds that are based ... synthesized the biologically significant compound urea by evaporating an aqueous ...8 KB (1,161 words) - 01:13, 18 November 2022
- Purine is a heterocyclic, aromatic, organic compound, consisting of ... compounds that are interconvertible by a chemical reaction). ...7 KB (928 words) - 23:49, 2 December 2022
- can be described as follows. An ionic compound is dissolved in a solvent ... electrical energy into hydrogen's chemical energy—the energy lost ...7 KB (1,039 words) - 04:29, 27 November 2020
- A hydrocarbon is any chemical compound that is constituted of just the elements carbon (C) and hydrogen (H). Each hydrocarbon molecule consists ...8 KB (1,193 words) - 13:34, 17 May 2021
- are responsible for the characteristic chemical reactions of those molecules ... They determine the characteristics and chemical reactivity of molecules ...13 KB (1,621 words) - 07:19, 15 April 2024
- Berkelium (chemical symbol Bk, atomic number 97) is a synthetic, radioactive ... time visible amounts of a pure berkelium compound were produced. ...7 KB (911 words) - 11:01, 28 September 2023
- Main article: Chemical compound A compound is a substance with a fixed ... * Chemical compound * Chemical element * Chemical engineering ...20 KB (2,886 words) - 14:48, 5 December 2023
- with a distinctive sweet tarry odor. Its chemical formula is C6H5OH and its ... The word phenol is also used to refer to any compound which contains ...8 KB (1,204 words) - 02:56, 24 November 2022
- of physics to calculate the speed of chemical reactions, and showed that ... dimensional arrangement of atoms in a chemical compound. ...10 KB (1,516 words) - 17:33, 9 March 2022
- A chemical equation is a symbolic representation of a chemical reaction ... The reactants and products are shown using their chemical formulas ...12 KB (1,989 words) - 14:40, 5 December 2023
- In 1993, Bakelite was designated an ACS National Historical Chemical ... Co., Condensite Corp. and Redmanol Chemical Products Company, an early ...6 KB (839 words) - 05:49, 26 August 2023
- Astatine (chemical symbol At, atomic number 85) is the rarest naturally ... According to experiments done with a mass spectrometer, the chemical ...6 KB (808 words) - 05:08, 18 August 2023
- (O=C) linked to two other carbon atoms or a chemical compound that contains this functional group. A ketone can be generally represented by the formula: ...9 KB (1,318 words) - 03:31, 6 October 2022
- insoluble in water and in most other chemical reagents. It has a Mohs ... quot; metal, it is not considered a toxic chemical by most governments because ...4 KB (639 words) - 08:06, 20 September 2023
- In chemistry, a silicate is a compound containing an anion in which ... have linked tetrahedra, and their general chemical formula is (SixO3x)2n-. ...9 KB (1,269 words) - 22:04, 29 January 2023
- tetraborate, is an important boron compound, a mineral, and a salt of ... as a fire retardant, an anti-fungal compound for fiberglass insulation ...10 KB (1,388 words) - 19:37, 20 November 2023
- In chemistry, isomers are molecules that share the same chemical formula ... This finding challenged the prevailing chemical understanding of the time ...14 KB (2,096 words) - 05:56, 11 March 2024
- (C=O) linked to a nitrogen atom (N), or a compound that contains this functional ... for the carbonyl-nitrogen compound and ['æmɑɪd] for the anion ...10 KB (1,423 words) - 06:58, 25 July 2023
- atmosphere have changed over time and the chemical processes that create and ... may tell us that more of a chemical compound exists than previously ...11 KB (1,481 words) - 06:25, 21 August 2023
- A covalent bond is a type of chemical bond characterized by the sharing ... of organic molecules. Moreover, numerous chemical reactions, in both living ...15 KB (2,401 words) - 06:13, 11 January 2024
- Dynamite is the first safely manageable chemical explosive stronger ... operated by AECI (African Explosives and Chemical Industries). The demand ...6 KB (937 words) - 01:17, 16 January 2023
- Protactinium (chemical symbol Pa, atomic number 91) is a member of ... * Chemical element * Inner transition metal * Metal * Periodic table ...9 KB (1,150 words) - 08:16, 2 December 2022
- Pyridine is a fundamentally important chemical compound with the formula C5H5N. It is a liquid with a distinctively putrid, fishy odor. Its molecules ...11 KB (1,458 words) - 03:38, 7 December 2022
- with additional terms involving the chemical potential and the number ... where \mu_i is the chemical potential for an i-type particle, and ...18 KB (2,941 words) - 18:57, 13 February 2024
- For a chemical reaction to take place, it requires a certain minimum ... A catalyst may react with one or more reactants to form a chemical ...12 KB (1,789 words) - 17:49, 30 November 2023
- human body from other compounds through chemical reactions and thus has to ... Threonine has the chemical formula CH3-CH(OH)-CH(NH2)-COOH, or more ...9 KB (1,271 words) - 23:04, 30 April 2023
- A bleach is a chemical that can remove or lighten the color of an ... Household bleach, also known as chlorine bleach, has the chemical ...7 KB (964 words) - 18:12, 31 October 2023
- Chloroethane or monochloroethane, commonly known by its old name ethyl chloride, is a chemical compound once widely used in producing tetra-ethyl ...7 KB (906 words) - 17:08, 10 December 2023
- Even as a child Baeyer was interested in chemical experiments and ... associated with his ingenious theories of chemical structure. Baeyer's ...9 KB (1,376 words) - 06:04, 15 June 2023
- Palladium (chemical symbol Pd, atomic number 46) is a rare, silver ... are unsure if this is a true chemical compound. Common oxidation states ...13 KB (1,749 words) - 06:25, 18 November 2022
- Hydrogen cyanide is a chemical compound with the formula HCN. It is a colorless, very poisonous, and highly volatile liquid that boils slightly ...12 KB (1,685 words) - 13:19, 4 February 2023
- Around this time, he discovered the compound phenylhydrazine, which he ... to a group of compounds that shared a chemical base. They could all be ...7 KB (1,041 words) - 23:02, 22 June 2023
- A nucleotide is a chemical compound with three components: a nitrogen-containing base, a pentose (five-carbon) sugar (relatively simple carbohydrates ...18 KB (2,589 words) - 10:10, 11 March 2023
- Phosgene is the chemical compound with the formula COCl2. This highly toxic gas gained infamy as a chemical weapon during World War I, but it ...10 KB (1,416 words) - 22:44, 28 March 2023
- Acetaldehyde, sometimes known as ethanal, is an organic chemical compound with the formula CH3CHO (or MeCHO). It is a flammable liquid with a ...10 KB (1,279 words) - 07:33, 14 June 2023
- In organic chemistry, an alkene, olefin, or olefine is an unsaturated chemical compound containing at least one carbon-to-carbon double bond ...13 KB (1,908 words) - 22:30, 4 January 2023
- Silane is a chemical compound with the chemical formula SiH4. It is the silicon analog of methane and, like methane, it is a gas at ordinary ...8 KB (1,184 words) - 22:02, 29 January 2023
- Ether is the general name for a class of organic chemical compounds ... == Chemical reactions == [[Image:Diethylether peroxide chemical structure ...15 KB (2,285 words) - 04:31, 22 March 2024
- The process of forming diazoniums compound is called diazotation, ... in an aqueous solution of the diazonium compound, then a solution of the coupler. ...7 KB (1,048 words) - 13:34, 15 July 2020
- and various co-enzymes. Ribose has the chemical formula ... atom and double-bonded to an oxygen atom (chemical formula O=CH-). ...7 KB (1,027 words) - 09:19, 10 August 2022
- "ground state"). Given that a chemical element may exist as various ... atomic weights, which are ubiquitous in chemical laboratories. ...13 KB (2,025 words) - 06:26, 21 August 2023
- Ruthenium (chemical symbol Ru, atomic number 44) is a rare, hard, ... are versatile catalysts for diverse chemical reactions. ...13 KB (1,814 words) - 18:24, 22 December 2022
- Chlorine (chemical symbol Cl, atomic number 17) is a nonmetal that ... waters. Common salt or table salt is the compound sodium chloride (NaCl). ...15 KB (2,040 words) - 17:07, 10 December 2023
