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Shock sensitivity is a comparative measure of the sensitivity to sudden compression (by impact or blast) of an explosive chemical compound. Determination...

The Poem of the End (Russian: поэма конца, 'poema kontsa') is the name of two poems by Russian poets of the early 20th century. Poem of the End (usually...

The binding constant, or affinity constant/association constant, is a special case of the equilibrium constant K, and is the inverse of the dissociation...

Stereoscopic spectroscopy is a type of imaging spectroscopy that can extract a few spectral parameters over a complete image plane simultaneously. A stereoscopic...

Look up char in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Char is the solid material that remains after light gases (e.g. coal gas) and tar have been driven out...

The root alk- is used in organic chemistry to form classification names for classes of organic compounds which contain a carbon skeleton but no aromatic...

In spectroscopy, hypsochromic shift (from Ancient Greek ὕψος (upsos) 'height', and χρῶμα (chrōma) 'color') is a change of spectral band position in the...

A halochromic material is a material which changes colour when pH changes occur. The term ‘chromic’ is defined for materials that can change colour reversibly...

Percent active chlorine is a unit of concentration used for hypochlorite-based bleaches. One gram of a 100% active chlorine bleach has the quantitative...

Polycide is a silicide formed over polysilicon. Widely used in DRAMs. In a polycide MOSFET transistor process, the silicide is formed only over the polysilicon...

Galvanoluminescence Is the emission of light produced by the passage of an electric current through an appropriate electrolyte in which an electrode, made...

Synthonia is short for Synthetic Ammonia, a product produced by chemical company I.C.I. ICI produced this product at one of its many plants in Billingham...

Perfect mixing is a term heavily used in relation to the definition of models that predict the behavior of chemical reactors. Perfect mixing assumes that...

A dasymeter was meant initially as a device to demonstrate the buoyant effect of gases like air (as shown in the adjacent pictures). A dasymeter which...

Laboratory sample tubes are used to hold small quantities of substances undergoing experimentation or testing. These tubes are usually made of glass, but...

A heatproof mat is a piece of apparatus commonly used in tabletop lab experiments that involve moderate temperatures (for example, when a Bunsen burner...

This is a partial list of molecules that contain 15 carbon atoms. Carbon number List of compounds with carbon number 14 List of compounds with carbon number...

Stanisław Kostanecki (born 16 April 1860 in Myszaków, now in Poland then Kingdom of Prussia – 15 November 1910 in Würzburg) was a Polish organic chemist...

This is a partial list of molecules that contain 23 carbon atoms. Carbon number List of compounds with carbon number 22 List of compounds with carbon number...

In quantum chemistry, a complete active space is a type of classification of molecular orbitals. Spatial orbitals are classified as belonging to three...