Encyclopedia of Chemistry

tropism 269–270
troposphere 270
Trouton’s rule 270
trytophan 131
tuberculosis 88
tungsten 86
tunneling 270
turgor pressure 270
Tyndall effect 270
type 1 copper 10, 22, 30
type 1,2,3 copper 270
typhus 83
tyrosinase 270
tyrosine kinase 270
tyrosine kinase receptor 270

U
ulcers 73
ultrasound 271
ultraviolet light 90
ultraviolet radiation 271
ultraviolet spectrum 271
umpolung 271
unified atomic mass unit 271
unimolecular. See
molecularity
unit cell 271
United Kingdom 57, 75
unreactive 271
unsaturated fatty acids 272
unsaturated hydrocarbon
272
unsaturated solution 272
unstable 272
upfield. Seechemical shift
uranium 122, 143
urea 272
urea cycle 156
urease 272
Urey, Harold C. 74, 272–273
uric acid 273

V

valence 275

valence bond theory 32,

275

valence electrons 275

valence isomer 275

valence shell 275

valence-shell electron-pair

repulsion theory 275

valence tautomerization 275,

275

van der Waals equation 275

van der Waals forces 183,

275–276

in inclusion compounds

138

van der Waals radius 276

vapor 276

vaporization 125

vapor pressure 276

V.D. Mattia Award 26

Veksler, V. I. 174

ventilation 276

vibration, molecular 194

visible light 276

vitamin 276

vitamin B 88

vitamin B 12129

vitamin C 276

Vitamin C and the Common

Cold(Pauling) 208

vitamin E 70

vitamin K 70, 83

vitamins 131

volt 276

voltage 276

voltage-gated channel 277

voltaic cells 277

volume of activation 277

Vonnegut, Bernard 160

Vonnegut, Kurt 160

VSEPR 277

W

Waksman, Selman Abraham

279

Warburg, Otto Heinrich

279–280

warm blooded. See

endothermic

water 16, 124, 280

water cycle 280

water equivalent 280

water of crystallization 280

water potential 280

water table 280

water vapor 280

Watson, James 183

Watson-Crick model 280

wave function 59, 182, 280

wavelength 90, 280

weak acid/base 280

weak electrolyte 280

weather 24

weight

chemical 48, 49

equivalent 100

wetting agent 280–281

Wheland intermediates 175

Whipple, George Hoyt 281

White Cliffs of Dover 75

Willard Gibbs Medal 18, 71,

160, 164

Wilson’s disease 281

wine 108

Winstein-Holness Avalues.

SeeA value

Wolf, Christian 106

Woodward-Hoffmann rules.

Seeorbital symmetry

work 281

work function 281

Worlds in the Making

(Arrhenius) 18

World War I 24, 57, 60

World War II 57

X

XANES. Seeextended X-ray

absorption fine structure

(EXAFS)

xenobiotic 27, 283

xenon 194

X ray(s) 33, 76, 90, 283

absorption spectrum

102–103

X-ray absorption near-edge

structure. Seeextended X-

ray absorption fine

structure (EXAFS)

X-ray crystallography 183

X-ray diffraction 283

X-ray photography 129

Y

yeast 27, 108, 285

yew tree 57

yield 285

ylide 285

Yukawa-Tsuno equation 285

Z

Zeeman splitting 171

Zeeman sublevels 171

zeolite 287

zero-order reaction 287

zero-point energy 149, 287

Ziegler-Natta catalyst 287

zinc 115, 124, 133, 172

zinc finger 287

zone refining 287

zoology 27, 28, 32–33, 54,

69

Zucker-Hammett hypothesis

287

Z-value 287

zwitterionic compound 288

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