Leroy G. Wade
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LOCATION: Walla Walla, WA, United States
Professor of Chemistry, Whitman College, Walla Walla, Washington. Author of Organic Chemistry and others.
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Isopropyl alcohol, one of the most common members of the alcohol family of organic compounds. Isopropyl alcohol was the first commercial synthetic alcohol; chemists at the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey (later Exxon Mobil) first produced it in 1920 while studying petroleum by-products. It is…
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