- Industry: Printing & publishing
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- Company Profile:
McGraw Hill Financial, Inc. is an American publicly traded corporation headquartered in Rockefeller Center in New York City. Its primary areas of business are financial, publishing, and business services.
H(CHOH)<sub>4</sub>H A tetrahydric alcohol; occurs as tetragonal prisms, melting at 121_C, soluble in water; used in medicine as a vasodilator. Also known as erythrite; erythrol.
Industry:Chemistry
CCl<sub>3</sub>CCl:CCl<sub>2</sub> A water-white liquid boiling at 210_C, soluble in alcohol, ether, and chlorinated solvents, insoluble in water; used as a solvent, plasticizer, and hydraulic fluid.
Industry:Chemistry
C<sub>6</sub>H<sub>6</sub>O<sub>3</sub> Crystalline substance with a melting point of 161–162_C and a fragrant caramellike odor; used as a flavoring agent in bread and cakes. Also known as larixinic acid.
Industry:Chemistry
Explosive compound containing one or more NO<sub>2</sub> _ groups, such as nitroglycerine, C<sub>3</sub>H<sub>5</sub>(ONO<sub>2</sub>)<sub>3</sub>, or trinitrotoluene, C<sub>6</sub>H<sub>2</sub>(CH<sub>3</sub>)(NO<sub>2</sub>)<sub>3</sub>.
Industry:Chemistry
CH<sub>3</sub>CH<sub>2</sub>COONa Deliquescent, transparent crystals; soluble in water, slightly soluble in alcohol; used as a fungicide, and mold preventive.
Industry:Chemistry
A dye with an affinity for nucleic acids; the complexes of nucleic acid and dye fluoresce orange with RNA and green with DNA when observed in the fluorescence microscope.
Industry:Chemistry
Ba<sub>3</sub> (C<sub>6</sub>H<sub>5</sub>O<sub>7</sub>)<sub>2</sub>_2H<sub>2</sub>O A grayish-white, toxic, crystalline powder; used as a stabilizer for latex paints.
Industry: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 cellulose.
Industry:Chemistry
