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C<sub>6</sub>H<sub>11</sub>NHSO<sub>3</sub>Na White, water-soluble crystals; sweetness 30 times that of sucrose; formerly used as an artificial sweetener for foods, but now prohibited.
Industry:Chemistry
CH<sub>3</sub>CONHCHCH<sub>2</sub>COOH Long, needlelike crystals with a melting point of 206–208_C; soluble in water and alcohol; forms stable salts with organic bases; used in medicine.
Industry:Chemistry
A compound formed from a metal and an aryl group, for example, PbR<sub>4</sub>, where R is the aryl group.
Industry:Chemistry
C<sub>10</sub>H<sub>16</sub>O A bicyclic saturated terpene ketone that exists in optically active dextro and levo forms and as a racemate; the dextro form is obtained from the wood and bark of the camphor tree, the levo form is found in some essential oils, and the inactive form is obtained from an Asiatic chrysanthemum or made synthetically from certain terpenes.
Industry:Chemistry
C<sub>11</sub>H<sub>21</sub>NOS A yellow liquid with limited solubility in water; boiling point is 145–146_C; used as an herbicide to control weeds in sugarbeets, spinach, and table beets.
Industry:Chemistry
C<sub>14</sub>H<sub>4</sub>O<sub>2</sub>(OH)<sub>3</sub>CH<sub>3</sub> Orange needles crystallizing from alcohol solution, melting point 256–257_C, practically insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and aqueous alkali hydroxide solutions, occurs as the rhamnoside in plants such as rhubarb root and alder buckthorn; used as a laxative.
Industry:Chemistry
A chemical process or reaction in which a halogen element is introduced into a substance, generally by the use of the element itself.
Industry:Chemistry
C<sub>10</sub>H<sub>16</sub> A terpene with a lemon odor that is optically active and is found in oils from citrus fruits and in oils from peppermint and spearmint; a colorless, water-insoluble liquid that boils at 176_C.
Industry:Chemistry
Any of the cycloparaffin derivatives of cyclopentane (C<sub>5</sub>H<sub>10</sub>) or cyclohexane (C<sub>6</sub>H<sub>12</sub>) found in crude petroleum.
Industry:Chemistry
C<sub>4</sub>H<sub>10</sub>N<sub>2</sub> A cyclic compound; colorless, deliquescent crystals, melting at 104–107_C; soluble in water, alcohol, glycerol, and glycols; absorbs carbon dioxide from air; used in medicine.
Industry:Chemistry
