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the ability of a chemical compound to rotate the plane of plane polarized light This is found only in chemicals whose molecular structure does not have a plane of symmetry and is common in biochemical compounds...
Carbon
An elementary substance not metallic in its nature which is present in all organic compounds Atomic weight 1197 Symbol C it is combustible and forms the base of lampblack and charcoal and enters largely into mineral coals In its pure crystallized state it constitutes the diamond the hardest of known substances occuring in monometric crystals like the octahedron etc Another modification is graphite or blacklead and in this it is soft and occurs in hexagonal prisms or tables When united with oxygen it forms carbon dioxide commonly called carbonic acid or carbonic oxide according to the proportions of the oxygen when united with hydrogen it forms various compounds called hydrocarbons Compare Diamond and Graphite...
molecular formula
An expression representing the composition of elements in a chemical substance commonly consisting of a series of letters and numbers comprising the atomic symbols of each element present in a compound followed by the number of atoms of that element present in one molecule of the substance Thus the molecular formula for common alcohol ethyl alcohol is C2H6O meaning that each molecule contains two carbon atoms six hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom The molecular formula may be written to provide some indication of the actual structure of the molecule in which case structural units may be written separately Thus ethyl alcohol can also be written as CH3CH2OH or CH3 CH2 OH in which the period or dash between functional groups indicates a single bond between the principle atoms of each group This formula shows that in ethyl alcohol the carbon of a methyl group CH3 is attached to the carbon of a methylene group CH2 which is attached to the oxygen of a hydroxyl group OH A structural formula i...
ethanol
The organic compound C2H5OH the common alcohol which is the intoxicating agent in beer wine and other fermented and distilled liquors called also ethyl alcohol It is used pure or denatured as a solvent or in medicines and colognes and cleaning solutions or mixed in gasoline as a fuel for automobiles and as a rocket fuel as in the V 2 rocket...
Fool
A compound of gooseberries scalded and crushed with cream commonly called gooseberry fool...
lipid
Any of a variety of oily or greasy organic compounds found as major structural components of living cells they are insoluble in water but soluble in organic solvents such as alcohol and ether and include the common fats cholesterol and other steroids phospholipids sphingolipids waxes and fatty acids some of the lipids together with proteins and carbohydrates form an essential structural component of living cells as in the cell walls and membranes The term lipid refers to its solubility in nonpolar solvents and has no significance with regard to chemical structure...
King's silver
King's silver, the money which was paid to the King, in the Court of Common Pleas for a licence granted to a man to levy a fine of lands, tenements, or hereditaments to another person; and this must have been compounded, according to the value of the land, in the alienation office, before the fine would have passed, Inst. 511. see FINE....
Consideration
Consideration. Any act of the promisee (the person claiming the benefit of an obligation) from which the promisor (the person burdened with the obligation) or a stranger derives a benefit or advantage, or any labour detriment or inconvenience sustained or suffered by the promisee at the request, express or implied, of the promisor. See Laythoarp v. Bryant, 3 Scott 250; 2 Wms. Saund 137 h; Currie v. Misa, (1875) LR 10 Exch 153.Consideration is one of the facts which the courts require as evidence of intention, (a) that a person intends his promise to be binding on him, or (b) that he intends to divest himself of a beneficial interest in property. In its widest sense consideration is the price, motive or inducement for a promise or for a transfer of property from one person to another. The nature or quality of the consideration which will be sufficient for these purposes varies with the nature of the transaction and in the absence of consideration the Courts will, except in the case of s...
Plumbism
A diseased condition produced by the absorption of lead common among workers in this metal or in its compounds as among painters typesetters etc It is characterized by various symptoms as lead colic lead line and wrist drop See under Colic Lead and Wrist...
Pistil
The seed bearing organ of a flower It consists of an ovary containing the ovules or rudimentary seeds and a stigma which is commonly raised on an elongated portion called a style When composed of one carpel a pistil is simple when composed of several it is compound See Illust of Flower and Ovary...
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