6 sentences with 'compounds'
Example sentences and phrases with the word compounds and other words derived from it.
• « More than 2,000 synthetic barbiturate-type compounds are the basis of "sleeping pills" and sedatives. »
• « Steroids are a group of chemical compounds comprising sterols, bile acids, vitamin D, saponins, corticoadrenal and sex hormones, and certain carcinogens. »
• « The construction of Iraq's other major chemical weapons plant in Salman Pak, a little south of Baghdad, was also led by a German firm, Thyssen Rheinstahl Technik. According to the German weekly Stern, the Diyala project, the codename for the programme, in addition to chemical compounds, produced various biological weapons - capable of causing epidemics of cholera, typhoid and anthrax - in underground laboratories, the construction of which was also carried out by the company. »
• « Saturn, which contains a lot of hydrogen, may have a smaller, rocky core at its centre (small depending on how you look at it, because it is estimated to be several times the size of the Earth) surrounded by liquid metallic hydrogen. The outermost bed of the planet may be an ocean of liquid hydrogen, among other compounds. »
• « Ololiuqui is the seed of a species of vine that possesses compounds similar to lysergic acid (LSD). »