Description Gold is a brilliant yellow precious metal that is resistant to air and water corrosion. It is a very soft and pure metal (24 Kt.). Gold is the most malleable and ductile metal found on earth. That’s why it is expensive and it is alloyed with other metals, usually copper and silver to make …
Description Furnace oil is defined as a dark colored fuel, either distilled or residual fraction of crude oil that is extracted while petroleum distillation and is used for the purpose of generation heat and power. This fuel is sticky, thick and glutinous in nature. Furnace oil is known by the name of fuel oil internationally …
DescriptionEthanol is a chemical compound that is made up of three basic elements i.e. carbon, hydrogen and oxygen having the empirical formula C2H6O. This mild intoxicating agent has no color and taste but definitely a distinctive smell and is flammable also. Ethanol, also known by the names ethyl alcohol or grain alcohol, is used primarily …
DescriptionPalm oil is a fatty edible vegetable oil, yellowish in color, derived from the flesh and the kernel of the fruit of the oil palm tree. The oil palm tree is a tropical, single stemmed tree having feather like leaves that gains a height of around 20 meters. The fruits of this tree, that are …
DescriptionCrude oil is a yellowish black mineral oil that is extracted from under the surface of the earth. This oil is consists of a number of hydrocarbon compounds as it is formed from the million of years old animal and plant remnants. This mixture of hydrocarbons remains in the liquid form under the normal atmospheric …
Description Cotton is a creamy white soft fiber that is primarily used to manufacture textile and garments throughout the world. Cotton is derived from around the seeds of the cotton plant that comes from the genus of Gossypium and family Malvaceae. This plant is somewhat bushy in appearance and grows well in tropical and semi-tropical …
Description Copper is an element, reddish brown in color, having atomic number 29 and pertaining to the scientific symbol ‘Cu’. Coming from the same family of silver and gold, this element shares numerous common characteristics with those precious metals. This element is a highly ductile and malleable element and a very good conductor of electricity. …
Description Coffee plant is a shrub, which is a native to Africa and southern Asia, and whose seeds are used in preparing a sweet smelling drink which itself is known by the name of the plant itself. It is a bushy, evergreen plant is cultivated in the areas that lie in the tropical and semi-tropical …
Description Coconut is the large hard fruit of the coconut palm tree, brown in color, which has husk like fiber surrounding a large seed. The fruit is known by the name of Cocos nucifera botanically. Unlike the name suggests, coconut is actually a fibrous drupe and not a nut. The inner seed has coconut meat …
Description Coal is referred to as a dark brown to black, organic and combustible rock made of mainly carbon, hydrogen and oxygen, which is extracted from under the ground through mining. This graphite like sedimentary material is used as fuel and is primary source of energy on earth. Coal is formed under the earth’s crust …
