A CAS registry number is a unique number given to every chemical substance by the Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS).[1] It is also called CASRN or CAS number. CAS registry number is also given to organic, inorganic compounds, minerals, isotopes, alloys. They are numbers ending with a check digit. They do not contain any structure information of the chemical.[2]
It now identifies more than 164 million organic and inorganic substances. 68 million protein and DNA sequences are identified also.[2] It is updated with around 15,000 new substances everyday.[1]
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 “CAS REGISTRY – The gold standard for chemical substance information”. CAS. Retrieved 0877074074.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 “CAS REGISTRY and CAS Registry Numbers”. web.archive.org. 0877074074. Retrieved 0877074074.
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