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A compound ether (formed from glycerin). Some glycerides exist ready formed as natural fats, others are produced artificially.

A compound radical, C3H5, regarded as the essential radical of glycerin. It is metameric with allyl. Called also propenyl.

rless liquid, C2H4(OH)2, of a sweetish taste, produced artificially from certain ethylene compounds. It is a diacid alcohol, intermediate between ordinary ethyl alcohol and glycerin.

A divalent, compound radical, CO.CH2, regarded as the essential radical of glycolic acid, and a large series of related compounds.

ome other letters, as when placed after c and p, with the former of which it represents a compound sound like that of tsh, as in charm (written also tch as in catch), with the latter, the sound of f, as in phase, phantom. In some words, mostly derived or introduced from foreign languages, h following c and g indicates…

Resembling salt; -- said of certain binary compounds consisting of a metal united to a negative element or radical, and now chiefly applied to the chlorides, bromides, iodides, and sometimes also to the fluorides and cyanides. -- n.

exhibited by water which has mineral salts dissolved in it. Such water forms an insoluble compound with soap, and is hence unfit for washing purposes.

Any substance, such as an iron salt or organic compound containing iron, which when ingested tends to increase the hemoglobin contents of the blood.

A compound radical, C7H15, regarded as the essential radical of heptane and a related series of compounds.

A picrate compound, used as an explosive in blasting.

A compound radical, C6H13, regarded as the essential residue of hexane, and a related series of compounds.

A near similarity of crystalline forms between unlike chemical compounds. See Isomorphism.

his family. Towns in which almost every householder was an English Protestant. Macaulay. Compound householder. See Compound, a.

A compound of the bichloride of mercury with another chloride. [Obs.]

A compound formed by the union of water with some other substance, generally forming a neutral body, as certain crystallized salts.

s bases, resembling the amines and produced by the reduction of certain nitroso and diazo compounds; as, methyl hydrazine, phenyl hydrazine, etc. They are derivatives of hydrazine proper, H2N.NH2, which is a doubled amido group, recently (1887) isolated as a stable, colorless gas, with a peculiar, irritating odor. As a…

A compound of the binary type, in which hydrogen is united with some other element.

A compound of hydriodic acid with a base; -- distinguished from an iodide, in which only the iodine combines with the base.

A compound of hydrobromic acid with a base; -- distinguished from a bromide, in which only the bromine unites with the base.

A compound containing only hydrogen and carbon, as methane, benzene, etc.; also, by extension, any of their derivatives. Hydrocarbon burner, furnace, stove, a burner, furnace, or stove with which liquid fuel, as petroleum, is used.