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Peracetic acid

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Peracetic acid (also known as peroxyacetic acid, or PAA), is an organic compound with the formula CH3CO3H. [1]

34 relations: Acetaldehyde, Acetic acid, Acetic anhydride, Acetyl chloride, Acid dissociation constant, Alkali, Alkene, Antimicrobial, Chemical formula, Cooling tower, Corrosive substance, Disinfectant, Epoxide, Formaldehyde, Hydrogen peroxide, Hydroxy group, Journal of Hospital Infection, Journal of the American Oil Chemists' Society, Laundry detergent, Legionella, Mechanistic organic photochemistry, Meta-Chloroperoxybenzoic acid, Organic compound, Organic peroxide, Oxidizing agent, Peroxy acid, Pinene, Poise (unit), Radical (chemistry), Royal Society of Chemistry, Tetraacetylethylenediamine, Trade name, Trifluoroperacetic acid, United States Environmental Protection Agency.

Acetaldehyde

Acetaldehyde (systematic name ethanal) is an organic chemical compound with the formula CH3CHO, sometimes abbreviated by chemists as MeCHO (Me.

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Acetic acid

Acetic acid, systematically named ethanoic acid, is a colourless liquid organic compound with the chemical formula CH3COOH (also written as CH3CO2H or C2H4O2).

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Acetic anhydride

Acetic anhydride, or ethanoic anhydride, is the chemical compound with the formula (CH3CO)2O.

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Acetyl chloride

Acetyl chloride, CH3COCl is an acid chloride derived from acetic acid.

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Acid dissociation constant

An acid dissociation constant, Ka, (also known as acidity constant, or acid-ionization constant) is a quantitative measure of the strength of an acid in solution.

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Alkali

In chemistry, an alkali (from Arabic: al-qaly “ashes of the saltwort”) is a basic, ionic salt of an alkali metal or alkaline earth metal chemical element.

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Alkene

In organic chemistry, an alkene is an unsaturated hydrocarbon that contains at least one carbon–carbon double bond.

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Antimicrobial

An antimicrobial is an agent that kills microorganisms or stops their growth.

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Chemical formula

A chemical formula is a way of presenting information about the chemical proportions of atoms that constitute a particular chemical compound or molecule, using chemical element symbols, numbers, and sometimes also other symbols, such as parentheses, dashes, brackets, commas and plus (+) and minus (−) signs.

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Cooling tower

A cooling tower is a heat rejection device that rejects waste heat to the atmosphere through the cooling of a water stream to a lower temperature.

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Corrosive substance

A corrosive substance is one that will destroy and damage other substances with which it comes into contact.

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Disinfectant

Disinfectants are antimicrobial agents that are applied to the surface of non-living objects to destroy microorganisms that are living on the objects.

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Epoxide

An epoxide is a cyclic ether with a three-atom ring.

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Formaldehyde

No description.

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Hydrogen peroxide

Hydrogen peroxide is a chemical compound with the formula.

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Hydroxy group

A hydroxy or hydroxyl group is the entity with the formula OH.

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Journal of Hospital Infection

The Journal of Hospital Infection is a peer-reviewed medical journal published by Elsevier on behalf of the Healthcare Infection Society.

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Journal of the American Oil Chemists' Society

The Journal of the American Oil Chemists’ Society is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Wiley and the American Oil Chemists' Society.

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Laundry detergent

Laundry detergent, or washing powder, is a type of detergent (cleaning agent) that is added for cleaning laundry.

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Legionella

The genus Legionella is a pathogenic group of Gram-negative bacteria that includes the species L. pneumophila, causing legionellosis (all illnesses caused by Legionella) including a pneumonia-type illness called Legionnaires' disease and a mild flu-like illness called Pontiac fever.

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Mechanistic organic photochemistry

Mechanistic organic photochemistry is that aspect of organic photochemistry which seeks to explain the mechanisms of organic photochemical reactions.

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Meta-Chloroperoxybenzoic acid

meta-Chloroperoxybenzoic acid (mCPBA) is a peroxycarboxylic acid used widely as an oxidant in organic synthesis.

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Organic compound

In chemistry, an organic compound is generally any chemical compound that contains carbon.

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Organic peroxide

Organic peroxides are organic compounds containing the peroxide functional group (ROOR′).

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Oxidizing agent

In chemistry, an oxidizing agent (oxidant, oxidizer) is a substance that has the ability to oxidize other substances — in other words to cause them to lose electrons.

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Peroxy acid

A peroxy acid (often spelled as one word, peroxyacid, and sometimes called peracid) is an acid which contains an acidic –OOH group.

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Pinene

Pinene (C10H16) is a bicyclic monoterpene chemical compound.

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Poise (unit)

The poise (symbol P) is the unit of dynamic viscosity (absolute viscosity) in the centimetre–gram–second system of units.

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Radical (chemistry)

In chemistry, a radical (more precisely, a free radical) is an atom, molecule, or ion that has an unpaired valence electron.

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Royal Society of Chemistry

The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) is a learned society (professional association) in the United Kingdom with the goal of "advancing the chemical sciences".

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Tetraacetylethylenediamine

Tetraacetylethylenediamine, commonly abbreviated as TAED, is an organic compound with the formula (CH3C(O))2NCH2CH2N(C(O)CH3)2.

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Trade name

A trade name, trading name, or business name is a pseudonym frequently used by companies to operate under a name different from their registered, legal name.

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Trifluoroperacetic acid

Trifluoroperacetic acid (trifluoroperoxyacetic acid, TFPAA) is the peroxy acid analog of trifluoroacetic acid and has the condensed structural formula.

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United States Environmental Protection Agency

The Environmental Protection Agency is an independent agency of the United States federal government for environmental protection.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peracetic_acid

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