W.X.C(william xerxes clancy) shortenned to a more commonly used H.B(hubert blaine) so as not to provoke violent sniggerings on introduction at social events.
Looks like an ambiguous answer to me. It could be HB (Hubert Blaine) or ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ (Adolph Blaine Charles David Earl Frederick Gerald Hubert Irvin John Kenneth Lloyd Martin Nero Oliver Paul Quincy Randolph Sherman Thomas Uncas Victor William Xerxes Yancy Zeus).
Sounds like a quartenary ammonium wotsit. I'm going to have two guesses as I'm new here and I'm a moderator and JUST STAND ASIDE, I'm having two guesses. If anyone has a problem with that then I shall smite them down with the...
"GET ON WITH IT!!"
Ok.
i) Used to manufacture fertiliser.
ii) Chemical used in smelling salts.
Christ even with my First Class degree in chemistry (albeit many moons ago) I am struggling to even draw a diagram of the fucker. The only structure I could get to was a heterocyclic molecule with 5 C atoms and one N in the ring and an acid group off the side - some sort of pyridine based acid then but could be absolute nonsense and no idea what it would be used for unless some sort of high explosive as (the way I have drawn it) doesnt look massively stable
well my limited knowledge of chemistry knows that that first bit sounds like cyanide, but that second bit sounds like acrylic. sooo, some kine of poisonous paint or laminate or glue, or is that too many guesses?