Gluon's lab

N-nitrourea, or N-nitrocarbamide, is an interesting compound with a variety of uses in organic synthesis. It is also a powerful secondary ex...

Nitric acid, or hydrogen nitrate, is a very common laboratory acid with a wide array of uses. One of the main uses is for nitrating various ...

Urea nitrate, or more correctly, uronium nitrate, is an intriguing organic compound consisting of a protonated urea cation coordinated to a ...

Boron nitride is an interesting compound used in ceramics and cosmetics. It's moderately heat resistant and can withstand temperatures u...

Myristic acid, or tetradecanoic acid, is a fatty acid with very few common uses. It is however, a useful organic building block. Under stand...

Benzoic acid is an aromatic carboxylic acid used as an organic building block. It occurs naturally in a wide range of plants, and is used as...

Trimyristin, or glyceryl trimyristate, is an interesting triglyceride that occurs naturally in nutmeg. It doesn't have many uses except ...