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91organometallic compound — ▪ chemical compound Introduction any member of a class of substances containing at least one metal to carbon bond in which the carbon is part of an organic group. Organometallic compounds constitute a very large group of substances that have… …
92Chemical reactor — In chemical engineering, chemical reactors are vessels designed to contain chemical reactions. The design of a chemical reactor deals with multiple aspects of chemical engineering. Chemical engineers design reactors to maximize net present value… …
93Phase Boundary Catalysis — (PBC) in chemistry is a type of heterogeneous catalytic system which facilitates the chemical reaction of a particular chemical component in immiscible phase react on a catalytic active site located at phase boundary. The chemical component is… …
94William C. Pfefferle — (born Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American scientist and inventor. Nicknamed the father of catalytic combustion, he invented the original catalytic combustor for gas turbine engines in the early 1970s. Gas turbines work by mixing fuel with… …
95Cluster chemistry — In chemistry, a cluster is an ensemble of bound atoms intermediate in size between a molecule and a bulk solid. Clusters exist of diverse stoichiometries and nuclearities. For example, carbon and boron atoms form fullerene and borane clusters,… …
96alcohol — /al keuh hawl , hol /, n. 1. Also called ethyl alcohol, grain alcohol, ethanol, fermentation alcohol. a colorless, limpid, volatile, flammable, water miscible liquid, C2H5OH, having an etherlike odor and pungent, burning taste, the intoxicating… …
97Carbon nanotube — Not to be confused with Carbon fiber. Part of a series of articles on Nanomaterials Fullerenes …
98Aspartate transaminase — Aspartate aminotransferase from Escherichia coli bound with cofactor pyridoxal 5 phosphate.[1] Identifiers …
99cofactor — /koh fak teuhr/, n. 1. Biochem. any of various organic or inorganic substances necessary to the function of an enzyme. 2. Math. a. a prefactor or postfactor. b. the product of the minor of a given element of a matrix times 1 raised to the power… …
100Epoxide — A generic epoxide. An epoxide is a cyclic ether with three ring atoms. This ring approximately defines an equilateral triangle, which makes it highly strained. The strained ring makes epoxides more reactive than other ethers. Simple epoxides are… …
