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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.
BeF<sub>2</sub> A hygroscopic, amorphous solid with a melting point of 800_C; soluble in water; used in beryllium metallurgy.
Industry:Chemistry
An inorganic compound containing an element at its highest state of oxidation (such as perchloric acid, HClO<sub>4</sub>), or having the peroxy group, _O_O_ (such as perchromic acid, H<sub>3</sub>CrO<sub>8</sub>_2H<sub>2</sub>O).
Industry:Chemistry
KF orKF_2H<sub>2</sub>O Poisonous, white, deliquescent crystals with saline taste; soluble in water and hydrofluoric acid, insoluble in alcohol; melts at 846_C; used to etch glass and as a preservative and insecticide.
Industry:Chemistry
Be(NO<sub>3</sub>)<sub>2</sub>_3H<sub>2</sub>O A compound that forms colorless, deliquescent crystals that are soluble in water; used to introduce beryllium oxide into materials used in incandescent mantles.
Industry:Chemistry
A natural or synthetic metal oxide, sulfide, or other salt used as a coloring agent for paints, plastics, and inks.
Industry:Chemistry
K<sub>2</sub>SiF<sub>6</sub> An odorless, white crystalline compound; slightly soluble in water; used in vitreous frits, synthetic mica, metallurgy, and ceramics. Also known as potassium silicofluoride.
Industry:Chemistry
SOCl<sub>2</sub> A toxic, yellowish to red liquid with a pungent aroma, soluble in benzene, decomposes in water and at 140_C; boils at 79_C; used as a chemical intermediate and catalyst. Also known as sulfur oxychloride; sulfurous oxychloride.
Industry:Chemistry
Be<sub>3</sub> N<sub>2</sub> Refractory, white crystals with a melting point of 2200_40_C; used in the manufacture of radioactive carbon-14 and in experimental rocket fuels.
Industry:Chemistry
Large molecules, usually linear or branched chains with atoms other than carbon in their backbone; an example is glass, an inorganic polymer made up of rings and chains of repeating silicate units.
Industry:Chemistry
