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A salt of oxanilic acid.

A salt of oxonic acid.

genous acid (C4H5N3O4) not known in the free state, but obtained, in combination with its salts, by a slow oxidation of uric acid, to which it is related.

A salt of the supposed oxymuriatic acid; a chloride. Oxymuriate of lime, chloride of lime.

(Chem.) A salt of palmic acid; a ricinoleate. [Obsoles.]

A salt of palmitic acid.

A natural basin, containing salt or fresh water, or mud. Flash in the pan. See under Flash. -- To savor of the pan, to suggest the process of cooking or burning; in a theological sense, to be heretical. Ridley. Southey.

A paved yard or floor where ores are cleaned and sorted, or where ore, salt, mercury, etc., are trampled by horses, to effect intermixture and amalgamation.

A salt of pectic acid.

A salt of perbromic acid.

A salt of perchloric acid.

A salt of periodic acid.

A salt of permanganic acid. Potassium permanganate. (Chem.) See Potassium permanganate, under Potassium.

Pertaining to, or designating, one of the higher acids of manganese, HMnO4, which forms salts called permanganates.

A salt of persulphocyanic acid. [R.]

with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant life. Men hate those who affect that honor by ambition which pertaineth not to them. Hayward.

See Saltpeter.

the number of components minus the number of phases, plus two. Thus, if the components be salt and water, and the phases salt, ice, saturated solution, and vapor, the system is invariant, that is, there is only one set of conditions under which these four phases can exist in equilibrium. If only three phases be conside…

A compound of phenol analogous to a salt.

meric with xylenol, belonging to the class of phenols, and obtained by distilling certain salts of phloretic acid.