Nouns denoting substances
- alloy steel
- steel who characteristics are determined by the addition of other elements in addition to carbon
- carrier
- an inactive substance that is a vehicle for a radioactive tracer of the same substance and that assists in its recovery after some chemical reaction
- inducer
- an agent capable of activating specific genes
- bister
- a water-soluble brownish-yellow pigment made by boiling wood soot
- cassiterite
- a hard heavy dark mineral that is the chief source of tin
- cobalt ultramarine
- greenish-blue pigment consisting essentially of cobalt oxide and alumina
- CS gas
- a tear gas that is stronger than CN gas but wears off faster; can be deployed by grenades or cluster bombs; can cause skin burns and fatal pulmonary edema
- pyrophyllite
- a white or greenish aluminum silicate mineral (resembles talc)
- double salt
- a solution of two simple salts that forms a single substance on crystallization
- shale oil
- oil extracted from oil shale by heating
- hypochlorous acid
- a weak unstable acid known only in solution and in its salts; used as a bleaching agent and as an oxidizing agent
- vellum
- fine parchment prepared from the skin of a young animal e.g. a calf or lamb
- Persian lamb
- the fur of a karakul lamb
- glyceride
- an ester of glycerol and fatty acids that occurs naturally as fats and fatty oils
- printing ink
- a semisolid quick drying ink made especially for use in printing
- rhodolite
- a red or pink variety of garnet used as a gemstone
- organophosphate nerve agent
- any of a series of nerve agents containing organophosphate compounds first synthesized by German chemists in 1936; in World War II the Germans tested them in concentration camps but not on the battlefield; Iraq is alleged to have used them against Iran and against the Kurds
- xanthine
- crystalline oxidation product of the metabolism of nucleoproteins; precursor of uric acid; found in many organs and in urine
- Al
- a silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite
- smaltite
- a grey mineral consisting of cobalt arsenide and nickel; an important source of cobalt and nickel
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