Organic Compound
An organic compound is a compound containing carbon in combination with one or more elements. Organic compounds are generally characterized by chains of connected carbon atoms. Hydroc...
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C:n Ratio
Organic materials are composed of a mixture of carbohydrates, lignins, tannins, fats, oils, waxes, resins, proteins, minerals, and other assorted compounds. With the exception of the miner...
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Polycyclic Organic Compounds
In organic chemistry, a cyclic compound is one whose molecules consist of three or more atoms joined in a closed ring. A polycyclic compound is one whose molecules contain...
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All organic compounds are based on the element carbon (C). The four organic molecules that we studied are carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, and nucleic acids. A living organism uses carbohydrates for...
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WHAT IS MELAMINE?Melamine is an organic compound, which is 67 percent nitrogen, but also contains hydrogen and carbon, said John Groves, professor of chemistry at Princeton University. It can be pr...
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An environmental research institute has urged the government to
take measures to deal with ozone concentrations near the earth's
surface, which have been increasing in Japan for 25 years and ...
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The government decided Friday to give the Order of Culture award
to five people including kyogen actor Shigeyama Sensaku, while
selecting 15 people as Persons of Cultural Merits for their
co...
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Kyogen actor Shigeyama Sensaku and four others were awarded the
Order of Culture during a Culture Day ceremony at the Imperial Palace
on Saturday.
The four other recipients who received th...
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Sinclair Oil Corp., has agreed to pay $2.45 million in civil penalties and reduce emissions from three of its refineries in Wyoming and Oklahoma as part of a clean air settlement with the governmen...
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A robotic dirt and ice digger rocketed toward Mars on Saturday, beginning a 422 million-mile journey that NASA hopes will culminate next spring in the first ever landing within the red planet's Arc...
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The Environmental Protection Agency, following a congressional mandate, finalized plans Tuesday for new standards to boost the use of renewable fuels such as ethanol and biodiesel.Refiners will be ...
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Scientists have discovered what appear to be sea-size bodies of liquid, probably methane or ethane, on the surface of Saturn's largest moon, including one about as big as Montana.The discovery by t...
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A three-year study into a cluster of childhood leukemia cases in Sierra Vista detected no toxic exposures that could have caused the illnesses, federal health officials said.
"We don't kno...
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Japan's customs-cleared trade surplus widened 51.8 percent in
April from a year earlier to 926.7 billion yen for the sixth straight
monthly increase, while exports to the ...
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Organic Compound
C:n Ratio
Organic Compounds
A look at the additive melamine
