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Cas number (Chemical Abstracts Service Number) is the number given by the Chemical Abstracts Service for a chemical substance. Also known as CAS registry number, these numbers are currently the only identifier numbers used for polymers, chemical compounds, mixtures, biological sequences and alloys.
What is the purpose of giving CAS number?
The purpose of giving CAS numbers is to facilitate database searches of chemical compounds. Search can be done online at cas.org. The site, which hosts around 30 million records, is constantly updated and added to. Search can be made with CAS number in almost all of today's molecule databases.
CAS number; refers to the number given by the Chemical Abstracts Service.