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  • Thumbnail for Properties of water
    capacity. Water is amphoteric, meaning that it can exhibit properties of an acid or a base, depending on the pH of the solution that it is in; it readily...
    88 KB (9,563 words) - 16:40, 31 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Lead-acid battery
    Compared to modern rechargeable batteries, lead–acid batteries have relatively low energy density. Despite this, they are able to supply high surge...
    58 KB (7,490 words) - 18:54, 13 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Nitric acid
    trihydrate HNO3·3H2O. An older density scale is occasionally seen, with concentrated nitric acid specified as 42 Baumé. Nitric acid is subject to thermal or...
    46 KB (5,165 words) - 06:31, 11 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Relative density
    weight (syrups, juices, honeys, brewers wort, must, etc.) and acids. Relative density ( R D {\displaystyle RD} ) or specific gravity ( S G {\displaystyle...
    38 KB (5,846 words) - 12:21, 7 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Hydrochloric acid
    Hydrochloric acid, also known as muriatic acid or spirits of salt, is an aqueous solution of hydrogen chloride (HCl). It is a colorless solution with...
    38 KB (4,077 words) - 20:03, 14 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Phosphoric acid
    Phosphoric acid (orthophosphoric acid, monophosphoric acid or phosphoric(V) acid) is a colorless, odorless phosphorus-containing solid, and inorganic...
    27 KB (2,328 words) - 17:27, 17 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Fluoroantimonic acid
    Fluoroantimonic acid is a mixture of hydrogen fluoride and antimony penta­fluoride, containing various cations and anions (the simplest being H 2F+ and...
    15 KB (1,505 words) - 17:12, 27 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Acetic acid
    Acetic acid /əˈsiːtɪk/, systematically named ethanoic acid /ˌɛθəˈnoʊɪk/, is an acidic, colourless liquid and organic compound with the chemical formula...
    62 KB (6,567 words) - 13:53, 22 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Fatty acid
    a fatty acid is a carboxylic acid with an aliphatic chain, which is either saturated or unsaturated. Most naturally occurring fatty acids have an unbranched...
    54 KB (5,037 words) - 00:57, 30 March 2024
  • Pyruvic acid (IUPAC name: 2-oxopropanoic acid, also called acetoic acid) (CH3COCOOH) is the simplest of the alpha-keto acids, with a carboxylic acid and a...
    16 KB (1,254 words) - 22:03, 10 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Polyethylene
    polymers of ethylene, with various values of n. It can be low-density or high-density and many variations thereof. Its properties can be modified further...
    58 KB (6,326 words) - 07:04, 13 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Sulfuric acid
    Sulfuric acid (American spelling and the preferred IUPAC name) or sulphuric acid (Commonwealth spelling), known in antiquity as oil of vitriol, is a mineral...
    65 KB (7,200 words) - 05:24, 17 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Boric acid
    Boric acid, more specifically orthoboric acid, is a compound of boron, oxygen, and hydrogen with formula B(OH)3. It may also be called hydrogen orthoborate...
    47 KB (4,988 words) - 17:09, 13 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Castor oil
    its density is 0.961 g/cm3. It includes a mixture of triglycerides in which about 90% of fatty acids are ricinoleates. Oleic acid and linoleic acid are...
    35 KB (3,518 words) - 03:27, 2 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Palmitic acid
    Palmitic acid (hexadecanoic acid in IUPAC nomenclature) is a fatty acid with a 16-carbon chain. It is the most common saturated fatty acid found in animals...
    14 KB (1,265 words) - 17:45, 27 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Sulfamic acid
    Sulfamic acid, also known as amidosulfonic acid, amidosulfuric acid, aminosulfonic acid, sulphamic acid and sulfamidic acid, is a molecular compound with...
    15 KB (1,483 words) - 20:01, 13 March 2024
  • specific energy, and energy density. Peukert's law describes how the amount of useful energy that can be obtained (for a lead-acid cell) depends on how quickly...
    59 KB (3,959 words) - 18:22, 21 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Low-density lipoprotein
    ULDL by the overall density naming convention), very low-density lipoprotein (VLDL), intermediate-density lipoprotein (IDL), low-density lipoprotein (LDL)...
    53 KB (5,992 words) - 14:30, 13 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Oleic acid
    decreased low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol, and possibly with increased high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol. Oleic acid may be responsible...
    21 KB (2,872 words) - 00:27, 24 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Lactic acid
    Lactic acid is an organic acid. It has the molecular formula CH3CH(OH)COOH. It is white in the solid state and it is miscible with water. When in the...
    38 KB (4,069 words) - 02:30, 12 May 2024
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