- Industry: Printing & publishing
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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.
A group of organosulfur compounds that are derivatives of hydrogen sulfide in the same way that alcohols are derivatives of water; have a characteristically disagreeable odor, and are found with other sulfur compounds in crude petroleum; an example is methyl mercaptan. Also known as thiol.
Industry:Chemistry
C<sub>9</sub>H<sub>19</sub>C<sub>6</sub>H<sub>4</sub>OH Pale-yellow liquid boiling at 283–302_C; soluble in organic solvents, insoluble in water; a mixture of monoalkyl phenol isomers, mostly para-substituted; used to make surface-active agents, resins, and plasticizers.
Industry:Chemistry
(H<sub>2</sub>CCHOOCCH<sub>3</sub>)x A thermoplastic polymer; insoluble in water, gasoline, oils, and fats, soluble in ketones, alcohols, benzene, esters, and chlorinated hydrocarbons; used in adhesives, films, lacquers, inks, latex paints, and paper sizes. Abbreviated PVA; PVAc.
Industry:Chemistry
C<sub>2</sub>H<sub>5</sub>Cl A colorless gas, liquefying at 12.2_C, slightly soluble in water; used as a solvent, in medicine, and as an intermediate. Also known as chloroethane.
Industry:Chemistry
Compound with boiling point 8.1_C; insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol; used in organic synthesis.
Industry:Chemistry
Water-soluble polymer made by hydrolysis of a polyvinyl ester (such as polyvinyl acetate); used in adhesives, as textile and paper sizes, and for emulsifying, suspending, and thickening of solutions. Abbreviated PVA.
Industry:Chemistry
CH<sub>2</sub>ClCOOC<sub>2</sub>H<sub>5</sub> A colorless liquid, boiling at 145_C; used as a poison gas, solvent, and chemical intermediate.
Industry:Chemistry
An explanation of an abstract concept that is specific enough to allow a researcher to measure the concept.
Industry:Sociology
A social system in which the position of each individual is influenced by his or her achieved status.
Industry:Sociology
