Tag: organic

Glycine oxalate

Formula: (NH3CH2COOH)2C2O4

Oxalic acid H2C2O4 is among the strongest inorganic acids, and can easily form salts with many weak bases such as amino-acid glycine. When one mole of oxalic acid is crystallized together with 2 moles of glycine, transparent sticks of glycine oxalate grows.

Different names: diglycine oxalate, glycinium oxalate.

Glycine oxalate


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Sodium saccharin

Formula: C7H4NNaO3S·?H2O Sodium saccharin

Saccharin is the first successful chemical sugar substitute; it gained its popularity during the time of WWII and is still in use nowadays, though to a much lesser extent: there are tastier and safer substitutes now. Strictly speaking, saccharin is a weak acid, that is almost insoluble in water. Soluble saccharin is its sodium salt: sodium saccharinate.


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