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A sugar or saccharide containing three carbon atoms. Trioses are the smallest monosaccharides. Dihydroxyacetone and L-/D-glyceraldehyde are the only trioses.

A psychoactive medication, especially one administered by injection, which supposedly renders a person cooperative and disposed to respond honestly to questions.

A floccule; a soft or fluffy particle suspended in a liquid, or the fluffy mass of suspended particles so formed.

The energy required to separate the ions of an ionic solid (especially a crystal) to infinity

Methylated spirits.

Gum, starch, etc., used in stiffening or finishing silk, linen, and other fabrics.

A painkiller; a medicine which soothes or relieves pain.

A simple aliphatic alcohol formally derived from ethane by replacing one hydrogen atom with a hydroxyl group: CH3-CH2-OH.

To drip or slather; to apply a gooey substance to a surface.

A clear distilled alcoholic liquor made from grain mash.

A protein derived through partial hydrolysis of the collagen extracted from animal skin, bones, cartilage, ligaments, etc.

Any of a group of silicon hydrides that are analogous to alkanes (the paraffin hydrocarbons); especially the parent compound SiH4

Bile, especially that of an animal; the greenish, profoundly bitter-tasting fluid found in bile ducts and gall bladders, structures associated with the liver.

The ethyl ester of acetic acid; CH3COOCH2CH3

Any viscous liquid or paste, such as a lubricant, used in preparing a surface.

Any of a number of naturally occurring insecticides extracted from the pyrethrum plant; unusual in having a cyclopropane ring.

Fluid glass floating on iron in the puddling furnace, produced by the vitrification of oxides and earths which are present.

A mixture of cornstarch and water with unusual physical properties.

Any substance used to kill parasites.

Anything, especially a synthetic substance but also any substance (e.g. sulfur), or virus, bacterium, or other organism, which kills or suppresses the activities of pests.