By Richard L. Myers
What's a chemical compound? Compounds are ingredients which are or extra components mixed jointly chemically in a regular percentage by means of weight. Compounds are throughout us - they contain general issues, comparable to water, and extra esoteric components, similar to triuranium octaoxide, the main more often than not taking place common resource for uranium. This reference advisor provides us a travel of a hundred of crucial, universal, strange, and interesting compounds identified to technology. every one access supplies an intensive clarification of the composition, molecular formulation, and chemical homes of the compound. furthermore, each one access experiences the suitable chemistry, historical past, and makes use of of the compound, with discussions of the beginning of the compound's identify, the invention or first synthesis of the compound, construction information, and makes use of of the compound.
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Fiber 66 became known as nylon 66. It is produced when adipic acid and hexamethylenediamine are combined under the proper conditions: HOOC(CH2)4COOH + H2N(CH2)6NH2 → nylon salt From 1936 to 1939, DuPont developed the production methods and marketing strategies for nylon. Unfortunately, Carothers never lived to reap the rewards as the inventor of nylon. He committed suicide in April 1937. Nylon’s first popular use was as replacement for silk in women hosiery. It was introduced as a great technological advance at the 1939 World’s Fair in New York City, although it was being used in toothbrush bristles more than a year before then.
NADH is a substance present in all cells that is synthesized from niacin. NADH is produced in the Krebs cycle (see Citric Acid). When NADH is oxidized, it produces hydrogen ions (protons) and electrons. The electrons enter the electron transport chain. The electron transport chain is a series of reactions that takes place in steps within the inner membrane of the mitochondria. In the chain, an electron passes between chemical groups in a series of oxidation and reduction reactions. At the end of the chain the electrons reduce molecular oxygen, which then combines with hydrogen ions to form water.
He was attempting to produce calcium in order to reduce aluminum in aluminum oxide, Al2O3. Willson combined coal tar and quicklime in an electric furnace and, instead of producing metallic calcium, he produced a brittle gray substance. The substance was calcium carbide, CaC2, which when reacted with water, produced acetylene. Willson’s work led to the establishment of a number of acetylene plants in the United States and Europe during the next decade. The triple bond in acetylene results in a high energy content that is released when acetylene is burned.