Tech24 Deals Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the Tech24 Deals Content Network
  2. Potassium chlorate - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potassium_chlorate

    Potassium chlorate is a compound containing potassium, chlorine and oxygen, with the molecular formula KClO 3. In its pure form, it is a white crystalline substance. After sodium chlorate, it is the second most common chlorate in industrial use. It is a strong oxidizing agent and its most important application is in safety matches. [6]

  3. Sulfuric acid - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulfuric_acid

    Infobox references. Sulfuric acid ( American spelling and the preferred IUPAC name) or sulphuric acid ( Commonwealth spelling ), known in antiquity as oil of vitriol, is a mineral acid composed of the elements sulfur, oxygen, and hydrogen, with the molecular formula H2SO4. It is a colorless, odorless, and viscous liquid that is miscible with water.

  4. Methyl salicylate - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methyl_salicylate

    Methyl salicylate (oil of wintergreen or wintergreen oil) is an organic compound with the formula C 8 H 8 O 3.It is the methyl ester of salicylic acid.It is a colorless, viscous liquid with a sweet, fruity odor reminiscent of root beer (in which it is used as a flavoring), but often associatively called "minty", as it is an ingredient in mint candies.

  5. Jacques Charles - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Charles

    Jacques Alexandre César Charles (12 November 1746 – 7 April 1823) was a French inventor, scientist, mathematician, and balloonist.Charles wrote almost nothing about mathematics, and most of what has been credited to him was due to mistaking him with another Jacques Charles (sometimes called Charles the Geometer), also a member of the Paris Academy of Sciences, entering on 12 May 1785.

  6. John Roebuck - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Roebuck

    John Roebuck. John Roebuck of Kinneil FRS FRSE (1718 – 17 July 1794) was an English industrialist, inventor, mechanical engineer, and physician who played an important role in the Industrial Revolution and who is known for developing the industrial-scale manufacture of sulfuric acid .

  7. Natural dye - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_dye

    Natural dye. Naturally dyed skeins made with madder root, Colonial Williamsburg, VA. Natural dyes are dyes or colorants derived from plants, invertebrates, or minerals. The majority of natural dyes are vegetable dyes from plant sources— roots, berries, bark, leaves, and wood —and other biological sources such as fungi. [1]

  8. Bernard Courtois - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Courtois

    Marie Blé Fairbanks. Bernard Courtois, also spelled Barnard Courtois, (8 February 1777 – 27 September 1838) [1] was a French chemist credited with first isolating iodine, making early photography possible. By 1811 the Napoleonic Wars had made the government-controlled saltpeter business taper off since there was by then a shortage of wood ...

  9. Sulfur compounds - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulfur_compounds

    Sulfuryl chloride and chlorosulfuric acid are derivatives of sulfuric acid; thionyl chloride (SOCl 2) is a common reagent in organic synthesis. Pseudohalides. Sulfur oxidizes cyanide and sulfite to give thiocyanate and thiosulfate, respectively. Metal sulfides. Sulfur reacts with many metals. Electropositive metals give polysulfide salts.