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HALOGEN ACID [4 records]

Record 1 2011-01-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Biological Sciences
DEF

Colourless, volatile, chemically reactive, lacrimatory(tearproducing), highly poisonous compound which contains the cyano group(-CN) linked to the halogen element bromine. It is formed by the reaction of bromine with salts of hydrocyanic acid; it is a solid that has been used as a reagent for the study of the structure of proteins.

OBS

Chemical formula: CNBr.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sciences biologiques
DEF

Cristaux blancs à odeur très forte; suffocante; extrêmement toxique; il se sublime et est soluble dans l'eau froide; il est utilisé en chimie organique comme agent de synthèse.

Spanish

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Record 2 2003-11-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Chemistry
DEF

Any of a broad array of organic acids comprised chiefly of alkyl (hydrocarbon) groups ..., usually in a straight chain (aliphatic), terminating in a carboxyl group (COOH).

OBS

Exceptions to this structure are formic acid(HCOOH) and oxalic acid(HOOCCOOH). The number of carbon atoms ranges from 1(formic) to 26(cerotic), the carbon of the terminal group being counted as part of the chain. Carboxylic acids include the large and important class of fatty acids..., and may be either saturated or unsaturated. A few contain halogen atoms(chloroacetic). There are also some natural aromatic carboxylic acids(benzoic, salicylic) as well as alicyclic types(abietic, chaulmoogric).

OBS

Many carboxylic acids are found in nature as free acids or in the form of esters or salts.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Chimie
DEF

acides carboxyliques : Acides organiques contenant le groupe fonctionnel -COOH.

OBS

Les acides carboxyliques, libres ou sous forme de sels ou d'esters, sont très répandus dans le règne vivant. Faciles à extraire et à purifier, ils ont longtemps constitué la majorité des composés organiques définis connus.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Química
DEF

Cualquiera de una serie de ácidos orgánicos formados sobre todo por grupos alquílicos, generalmente en cadena recta, y terminados en un radical carboxilo. Aquí se incluyen los ácidos grasos.

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Record 3 2003-02-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Chemical Elements and Compounds
CONT

With the halogens, fluorine, chlorine, bromine, and iodine, hydrogen forms hydrides containing 1 atom of hydrogen per atom of halogen. These compounds are usually referred to as hydrogen halides, for example, hydrogen chloride, HCl, or as hydrohalic acids, for example hydrochloric acid. The hydrogen halides are gases at room temperature.

CONT

Electrochemical conversion of anhydrous hydrogen halide to halogen gas using an ionically conducting membrane.

CONT

hydrohalic acid: An aqueous solution of a hydrogen halide.

CONT

Reactions of alkenes and alkynes (at the double bond site). A. Addition of halides (chlorine, bromine, iodine) -- yields dihalogen substituted alkane. B. Addition of hydrogen halides (HCl, HBr, HI) -- yields monohalogen alkanes CH3CH2-Cl.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Éléments et composés chimiques
CONT

Les halogénures d'hydrogène sont des composés des halogènes avec l'hydrogène. Leurs solutions aqueuses sont acides et portent alors, et alors seulement, le nom d'hydracide (acide fluorhydrique, acide chlorhydrique, acide bromhydrique, acide iodhydrique). Les sels sont les halogénures métalliques [...]

CONT

L'hydrogène peut [...] donner lieu à une réaction explosive avec certains halogènes (dont le chlore), laquelle produit un halogénure d'hydrogène.

Spanish

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Record 4 1976-06-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Chemistry

French

Domaine(s)
  • Chimie
OBS

voc. de la pollution

Spanish

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