Gluon's lab

5-Sulphosalicylic acid is an organic compound possessing both sulphonic and carboxylic acid functional groups. It's used in integral col...

Copper is possibly the oldest metal known to mankind. It was the first metal cast into a shape and even the first to be smelted from ore. I ...

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...