Ethyl methanesulfonate

Rarity: Common

The most frequent rarity: most Wikipedia articles become Commons.

Rarity follows how well known the article is: its views on the French and English Wikipedia over a year, and the number of languages it exists in.

At a glance

Class

Notion

Domain

Science and technology

In collections

Nobody has pulled it yet.

What Wikipedia says

Ethyl methanesulfonate (EMS) is an organosulfur compound with the formula CH3SO3C2H5. It is the ethyl ester of methanesulfonic acid. A colorless liquid, it is classified as an alkylating agent. EMS is the most commonly used chemical mutagen in experimental genetics.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Ethyl methanesulfonate”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

Image: Jynto, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.