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This page gives the common name of a chemical and asks for its chemical name.
| Q: What's the chemical name for ... (or, which chemical substance is sometimes known as ...)? | ||
| Speed, base, billy, dexies, paste, sulph and whizz are all slang names for (class of drugs, used for recreational purposes) |
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Amphetamines |
| 'Black damp' is a miners' term for air where the oxygen has been replaced by |
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Carbon dioxide |
| White damp (particularly to miners) |
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Carbon monoxide |
| Blue stone, blue vitriol |
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Copper sulphate |
| Spirits of wine |
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Ethyl alcohol (ethanol) |
| Grape–sugar or corn sugar |
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Glucose or dextrose |
| 'Milk of magnesia' is the common name for a suspension in water of |
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Magnesium hydroxide |
Marsh gas or firedamp
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Methane |
| Aqua fortis |
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Nitric acid |
| Laughing gas, or sweet air (first used as an anaesthetic in 1844) |
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Nitrous oxide |
| Saltpetre (or nitre) |
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Potassium nitrate |
| Common (table) salt |
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Sodium chloride |
| Caustic soda |
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Sodium hydroxide |
| Chile saltpetre |
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Sodium nitrate |
| 'Glauber('s) salt' is (hydrated) |
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Sodium sulphate |
| Cane sugar |
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Sucrose |
| 'Oil of vitriol' is an archaic name for |
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Sulphuric acid |
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