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Abrasive

Chemistry; General chemistry

A very hard, brittle, heat-resistant substance that is used to grind the edges or rough surfaces of an object. boron carbide, diamond, and corundum are abrasives.

Stereoisomers which are not mirror images of each other. Diastereomers are chemically similar but distinguishable; they have different melting points and boiling points and they react at different ...

Medicinal chemistry

Chemistry; General chemistry

A branch of chemistry concerned with the discovery, design, synthesis , and investigation of biologically active compounds and reactions that these compounds undergo in living things.

Standard state

Chemistry; General chemistry

A set of conditions defined to allow convenient comparison of thermodynamic properties. The standard state for a gas is the the state of the pure substance in the gaseous phase at the standard ...