CHEMISTRY GLOSSARY

Results 151–160 of 215 for oxo compound

polyens → polieni

Polyens are unsaturated acyclic compounds with many conjugated double connections between atoms of carbon (CH₂=CH-CH=CH-CH=CH₂).

potassium fertilizer → kalijevo gnojivo

Potassium fertilizers are compounds of potassium used as an artificial manure e.g. potassium-chloride, potassium-sulphate, potassium-magnesium-sulphate, and ashes formed after wood burns out.

Proteins are natural organic compounds of animal or herbal origin, essential in diet. They are natural polymers developed from a crowd of interconnecting monomers of amino acids, with relative molecular masses amounting up to a few million.

iodine → jod

Iodine was discovered by Bernard Courtois (France) in 1811. The origin of the name comes from the Greek word iodes meaning violet. It is shiny, black, non-metallic solid with characteristic odour. Sublimes easily and as a gas it is violet and intensely irritating to the eyes, nose and throat. Iodine occurs on land and in the sea in sodium and potassium compounds. Required in small amounts by humans. Once used as an antiseptic, but no longer due to its poisonous nature.

ionic radius → ionski radijus

Ionic radius is the radius of anions and cations in crystalline ionic compounds, as determined by consistently partitioning the center-to-center distance of ions in those compounds. In general, negative ions have larger ionic radii than positive ions.

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ketal → ketal

Ketals are organic compounds formed by addition of an alcohol to a ketone. If one molecule of ketone (RR’CO) reacts with one molecule of alcohol (R"OH) then a hemiketal is formed. The rings of ketose sugars are hemiketals. Further reaction produces a full ketal (RR’C(OR")₂). This term, once abandoned, has been reinstated as a subclass of acetals.

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ketone → keton

Ketones are compounds in which a carbonyl group is bonded to two carbon atoms: R₁R₂C=O (neither R may be H). They are derived by oxidation of secondary alcohols. The simplest member of the series is acetone, (CH₃)₂CO.

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purification → pročišćavanje

Purification is the physical or chemical process of removing contaminants from a compound. The physical processes may include sublimation, distillation, filtration, crystallisation, or extraction. The chemical processes may involve formation of a derivative, purification of the derivative and recovery of the original material in a pure form of the derivative.

racemate → racemat

Racemate is a mixture of equal quantities of the d- and l-forms of an optically active compound. A racemic mixture is not optically active.

racemisation → racemizacija

Racemisation is a conversion, by heat or by chemical reaction, of an optically active compound into an optically inactive form which half of the optically active substance becomes its miror image (enantiomer).

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Generalic, Eni. "Oxo compound." Croatian-English Chemistry Dictionary & Glossary. 29 June 2022. KTF-Split. {Date of access}. <https://glossary.periodni.com>.