List of articles in "Chemical Substance" category - Page 1051

Uraninite is a radioactive uranium-rich mineral and ore with a chemical composition that is largely UO2 but also contains UO3 and oxides of lead thorium and rare earth elements. It […]

Rutile is a mineral composed primarily of titanium dioxide TiO2.Rutile is the most common natural form of TiO2. Two rarer polymorphs of TiO2 are known:Anatase (sometimes known by the obsolete […]

Guar gum also called guaran is a galactomannan. It is primarily the ground endosperm of guar beans. The guar seeds are dehusked milled and screened to obtain the guar gum. […]

Pentaerythritol tetranitrate (PETN) also known as PENT PENTA TEN corpent penthrite (or—rarely and primarily in German—as nitropenta) is the nitrate ester of pentaerythritol and is structurally very similar to nitroglycerin. […]

Potassium ferrocyanide is the inorganic compound with formula K4[Fe(CN)6] · 3H2O. It is the potassium salt of the coordination complex [Fe(CN)6]4−. This salt forms lemon-yellow monoclinic crystals.

Hydrogen cyanide (HCN) sometimes called prussic acid is an inorganic compound with chemical formula HCN. It is a colorless extremely poisonous liquid that boils slightly above room temperature at 25.6 […]

Prehnite is a inosilicate of calcium and aluminium with the formula: Ca2Al(AlSi3O10)(OH)2. Limited Fe3+ substitutes for aluminium in the structure. Prehnite crystallizes in the orthorhombic crystal system and most oftens […]

Lead azide (Pb(N3)2) is an inorganic compound. More so than other azides Pb(N3)2 is explosive. It is used in detonators to initiate secondary explosives. In a commercially usable form it […]

Uracil /ˈjʊərəsɪl/ (U) is one of the four nucleobases in the nucleic acid of RNA that are represented by the letters A G C and U. The others are adenine […]

Proline (abbreviated as Pro or P) is an α-amino acid one of the twenty DNA-encoded amino acids. Its codons are CCU CCC CCA and CCG. It is not an essential […]