List of articles in "Chemical Substance" category - Page 944

Acrolein (systematic name: propenal) is the simplest unsaturated aldehyde. It is a colourless liquid with a piercing disagreeable acrid smell. The smell of burnt fat (as when cooking oil is […]

Lithium chloride is a chemical compound with the formula LiCl. The salt is a typical ionic compound although the small size of the Li+ ion gives rise to properties not […]

Zirconium tungstate (Zr(WO4)2) is a metal oxide with unusual properties. The phase formed at ambient pressure by reaction of ZrO2 and WO3 is a metastable cubic phase which has negative […]

Terpyridine (22′;6’2-terpyridine often abbreviated to terpy or tpy) is a heterocyclic compound derived from pyridine. This colourless solid is used as a ligand in coordination chemistry.

Tantalum carbides form a family of binary chemical compounds of tantalum and carbon with the empirical formula TaCx where x usually varies between 0.4 and 1. They are extremely hard […]

Hübnerite or hubnerite is a mineral consisting of manganese tungsten oxide (chemical formula: MnWO4 it isn’t a tungstate). It is the manganese endmember of the manganese – iron wolframite solid […]

Androstenone (5α-androst-16-en-3-one) is a steroid found in both male and female sweat and urine. It is also found in boar’s saliva and in celery cytoplasm. Androstenone was the first mammalian […]

Cerberin is a part of the cardiac glycosides group also known as digitalis-like compounds which is a group that is used as a treatment for heart problems. In higher doses […]

Mercury(I) chloride is the chemical compound with the formula Hg2Cl2. Also known as calomel (a mineral form rarely found in nature) or mercurous chloride this dense white or yellowish-white odorless […]

Saxitoxin (STX) is the best-known paralytic shellfish toxin (PST) although other related compounds have been reported such as neosaxitoxin (NSTX) the 11-alpha and 11-beta-O-sulphates of saxitoxin and neosaxitoxin and carbonyl-N-sulphate […]