CHEMISTRY GLOSSARY
Curie → Curie
Maria Sklodowska-Curie (1867-1934) Polish-born French chemist who went to Paris in 1891. She married the physicist Pierre Curie (1859-1906) in 1985 and soon began work on seeking radioactive elements other than uranium in pitchblende (to account for its unexpectedly high radioactivity). By 1898 she had discovered radium and polonium although it took her years to purify them. In 1903 the Curies shared the Nobel Prize for physics with Henri Becquerel, who had discovered radioactivity.
hydrophobic → hidrofoban
Hydrophobic is antagonistic to water, incapable of dissolving in water. This property is characteristic of oils, fats, waxes, and many resins.
petroleum ether → petroleter
Petroleum ether is the petroleum fraction consisting of C5 and C6 hydrocarbons and boiling in the range 35 °C to 60 °C; commonly used as a laboratory solvent.
ion exchanger → ionski izmjenjivač
Ion-exchanger is a solid or liquid material containing ions that are exchangeable with other ions with a like charge that are present in a solution in which the material is insoluble. Ion-exchange resins consist of various copolymers having a cross-linked three-dimensional structure to which ionic groups have been attached.
plexiglas → pleksi-staklo
Plexiglas is a hard, highly resistant, transparent, and almost unbreakable glass made from polyakryl resins. It is used for making windows for cars, planes etc.
uranium → uranij
Uranium was discovered by Martin Heinrich Klaproth (Germany) in 1789. Named after the planet Uranus. It is silvery-white, dense, ductile, malleable, radioactive metal. Resists alkalis; tarnishes in air; attacked by steam and acids. Radiotoxic. Uranium occurs in many rocks, but in large amounts only in such minerals as pitchblende and carnotite. For many centuries it was used as a pigment for glass. Now it is used as a fuel in nuclear reactors and in bombs.
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Generalic, Eni. "Epoksi smola." Croatian-English Chemistry Dictionary & Glossary. 29 June 2022. KTF-Split. {Date of access}. <https://glossary.periodni.com>.
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