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  • ...during refining, it is used in candles, for coating paper, and for various other purposes. Chemically, paraffin is a mixture of high-molecular-weight alkane Contamination may occur from dirty pipes or leakage from other cargoes. Oxidisation may occur in tanks not fully loaded. This can cause di
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  • ...dust, or simply coir, is made from coconut husks, which are byproducts of other industries that use [[coconuts]]. [[Coir]] waste from coir fiber industries ...s around 1000 times more air than soil. Adding slow release fertilizers or organic fertilizers are highly advised when growing with coco peat.
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  • ...r filters in gas masks and respirators, filters in compressed air and many other applications.<br><br> ...ent and electrolytic reactions of anodic oxidation and cathodic reduction, organic additives generate unwanted break down products in solution. Their excessiv
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  • An organic colorant obtained from an animal or plant source. Few of these are now in m ...iety of methods to impart bright, permanent colours to textile [[fibres]]. Organic dyes were first synthesized by Perkin in England and were later developed b
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  • [[Category:Other organic material]]
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  • ...emperature required limited applications. It is insoluble in [[ether]] and other non-polar solvents. A sodium hydroxide solution will leave a yellow stain o ...anufactured. It reacts with fats to form soaps, dissolving fat and grease. Other uses of caustic soda are:<br><br>
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  • ...compounds in which an oxygen atom is interposed between two carbon atoms (organic groups) in the molecular structure giving the generic formula ROR. They may ...sub>-CH<sub>2</sub>-O-CH<sub>2</sub>-CH<sub>3</sub>). Ethers are common in organic chemistry and pervasive in biochemistry, as they are common linkages in car
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  • [[Ethylene]] glycol (IUPAC name: ethan-1,2-diol) is an organic compound widely used as an automotive antifreeze and a precursor to polymer ...c [[acids]], ethers, mercaptans, nitrate esters, nitriles, nitrite esters, organic esters, peroxides, phosphate esters and sulfate esters.
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  • ...ble amounts of water trapped in the mineral structure by polar attraction. Organic materials which do not impart plasticity may also be a part of clay deposit ...ocks, usually silicate-bearing, by low concentrations of carbonic acid and other diluted solvents. These solvents, usually acidic, migrate through the weath
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  • ...carrier. Barites, such as barium sulfate, provide an opaque lake pigment. Other compounds used as carriers are: chalk, clay, gypsum, tin oxide, zinc oxide, [[Category: Other organic material]]
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  • Styrene, also known as vinyl benzene, is an organic compound with the chemical formula C6H5CH=CH2. This derivative of benzene i
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  • ...important nucleotide. DNA and RNA (see nucleic acid) are complex polymeric organic phosphates.<br><br> ...hemistry, a phosphate, or organophosphate, is an ester of phosphoric acid. Organic phosphates are important in biochemistry and biogeochemistry or ecology. In
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  • ...wish to brownish red tint. Cresols have an odour characteristic to that of other simple phenols, reminiscent to some of a "[[Coal Tar]]" smell. The name cre Cresols are used to dissolve other [[chemicals]], as disinfectants and deodorizers, and to make specific chemi
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  • Citric acid is a weak organic acid. It is a natural preservative/conservative and is also used to add an In chemical structure, citric acid shares the properties of other carboxylic [[acids]]. When heated above 175°C, it decomposes through the l
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  • Contamination by inorganic [[acids]], organic substances and other oxidizable materials can bring about rapid decomposition. Localised heating
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  • ...ch as Pistacia palaestina, can also produce a resin similar to mastic. Yet other substances, such as pine tree resin and almond tree resin, are sometimes us <b>Other uses</b><br>
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  • Diisocyanate is an organic compound with two iso-cyanate groups (-NCO) formed by treating diamines (e.
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  • [[Category: Products]][[Category: Other organic material]]
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  • ...trade winds that batter the exposed coastal sites where it often grows. In other environments it grows into a low dome shape with a clear sub canopy space. [[Category:Other organic material]]
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  • ...sewhere are treated with the growth inducing plant hormone gibberellin. In other [[grapes]] gibberellin is released by the [[seeds]].<br><br>
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