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• Quinine
  ...gave colonists fresh opportunities to swarm into the [[Gold Coast (region)|Gold Coast]], [[Nigeria]] and other parts of west Africa".<ref name="clifford">{ [[Category:Bitter compounds]]
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• Sodium thiosulfate
  ...t is also used in estimating volumetrically, the concentrations of certain compounds in solution ([[hydrogen peroxide]], for instance), and in estimating the ch ===Gold extraction===
  12 KB (1,720 words) - 15:42, 27 September 2010
• Potassium iodide
  ...dide]] to [[iodine]].<ref name=Ullmann>Phyllis A. Lyday "Iodine and Iodine Compounds" in Ullmann's Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry, 2005, Wiley-VCH, Weinhe ...ub>, "[[Lugol's solution]]," are used as disinfectants and as etchants for gold surfaces.
  23 KB (3,281 words) - 15:44, 27 September 2010
• Activated carbon
  ...prove the adsorptive capacity for some inorganic (and problematic organic) compounds such as [[hydrogen sulfide]] (H₂S), ammonia (NH₃), fo ...ted carbon is used in [[air pollution|gas purification]], [[carbon in pulp|gold purification]], [[extractive metallurgy|metal extraction]], [[water purific
  41 KB (5,738 words) - 15:47, 27 September 2010
• Mercury (element)
  ...ercury. Those electrons are more easily removed and are shared between the gold atoms forming relatively strong [[metallic bonds]].<ref name="Norrby">{{cit ===Reactivity and compounds===
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• Morphine
  In clinical medicine, morphine is regarded as the gold standard, or benchmark, of analgesics used to relieve severe or agonizing [ ...ound some 1,443 times more potent than morphine, stronger than the Bentley compounds such as [[etorphine]].
  87 KB (12,376 words) - 15:51, 27 September 2010
• Diamondoid
  ...then [[pyrolysis]] at 400 to 450 °C in order to remove all non-diamondoid compounds <ref>Diamondoids are thermodynamically very stable and will survive this py ...a gold surface and formation of [[self-assembled monolayer]]s (diamond-on-gold).
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• Coordination polymers
  ...exhibit multiple [[coordination geometry]]s, particularly [[copper]] and [[gold]] ions which as neutral atoms have full d-orbitals in their outer shells. ...[ground state]], resulting in the emission of [[light]]. Most luminescent compounds require organic chromophoric ligands, which absorb light and then pass the
  23 KB (3,302 words) - 09:11, 20 September 2010
• Petroleum
  ...cloalkane]]s and various [[aromatic hydrocarbon]]s while the other organic compounds contain [[nitrogen]], [[oxygen]] and [[sulfur]], and trace amounts of metal ...ellin Berthelot]] and [[Dmitri Mendeleev]], as well as astronomer [[Thomas Gold]] championed the theory in the [[Western world]] by supporting the work don
  69 KB (9,885 words) - 09:12, 20 September 2010
• Mixture
  ...al substance]]s like [[chemical element|elements]] and [[chemical compound|compounds]], without chemical bonding or other chemical change, so that each ingredie ...ution: [[amalgam (chemistry)|amalgam]] ([[mercury (element)|mercury]] in [[gold]]), [[hexane]] in [[paraffin wax]] || [[Gel]]: [[agar]], [[gelatin]], [[sil
  8 KB (1,156 words) - 09:12, 20 September 2010
• Metal
  |data17 = [[Gold]], [[Mercury (element)|Mercury]], [[Rutherfordium]], ...ake much longer to oxidize. Others, like [[palladium]], [[platinum]] and [[gold]], do not react with the atmosphere at all. Some metals form a barrier laye
  24 KB (3,311 words) - 09:13, 20 September 2010
• Depleted uranium
  ...mes as dense as [[lead]], only slightly less dense than [[tungsten]] and [[gold]], and 84% as dense as [[osmium]] or [[iridium]], which are the densest kno ...9}}</ref> Besides its residual radioactivity, U-238 is a heavy metal whose compounds are known from laboratory studies to be toxic to [[mammal]]s.
  80 KB (11,721 words) - 09:13, 20 September 2010
• Metallic bond
  ...s became accessible. Despite all this progress the nature of intermetallic compounds and alloys largely remained a mystery and their study was often empirical. ...nction as cleavage points may get blocked and the material becomes harder. Gold for example is very soft in pure form (24 [[Carat (purity)|kt]]), which is
  26 KB (4,024 words) - 09:13, 20 September 2010
• Metallurgy
  ...l]]lic [[Chemical element|elements]], their [[intermetallics|intermetallic compounds]], and their mixtures, which are called [[alloy]]s. It is also the [[techno [[Image:GoldThebes750.jpg|thumb|right|Gold headband from Thebes 750-700 BC]]
  14 KB (1,922 words) - 09:13, 20 September 2010
• Ruthenium
  ...Osmium, ruthenium, rhodium and iridium can be separated from platinum and gold and base metals by their insolubility in aqua regia, leaving a solid residu ==Chemical compounds==
  39 KB (5,430 words) - 09:13, 20 September 2010
• Sugar
  ...se]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://goldbook.iupac.org/S06088.html |title=IUPAC Gold Book - sugars |publisher=Goldbook.iupac.org |date=2009-09-07 |accessdate=20 ...drolysis|hydrolyse]] or otherwise break these glycosidic bonds before such compounds become [[metabolism|metabolised]]. After digestion and absorption. the prin
  21 KB (2,875 words) - 09:14, 20 September 2010
• Chemical substance
  ...e in a [[laboratory]]. Some typical chemical substances are [[diamond]], [[gold]], [[Edible salt|salt]] ([[sodium chloride]]) and [[sugar]] ([[sucrose]]). ...analytical chemistry]] used for isolation and purification of elements and compounds from chemicals that led to the establishment of modern [[chemistry]], the c
  15 KB (2,242 words) - 09:17, 20 September 2010
• Ski wax
  Beginning around 1854, California gold rush miners held organized downhill ski races [[History of skiing#Ski racin Hertel invented White Gold a high performance racing wax by formulating perfluoropolyether diol with t
  20 KB (3,247 words) - 09:17, 20 September 2010
• Wax
  ...s are components of fossil fuels or are synthesized from petroleum-derived compounds, such as [[paraffin]]. ''[[Earwax]]'' is an oily substance found in the hum ...and isoalkanes, naphthenes, and alkyl- and naphthene-substituted aromatic compounds. The degree of branching has an important influence on the properties. Mil
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• Nye Lubricants
  ...orked at an ice house in [[Calcutta]] and went to [[California]] for the [[Gold Rush]], where he built a profitable business as a stair builder after the [ ...ulates, manufactures, and sells [[synthetic lubricants]], thermal coupling compounds, index-matching optical gels and fluids. Its headquarters are in [[Fairhave
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