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A salt of carbazotic or picric acid; a picrate.

Containing, or derived from, carbon and nitrogen. Carbazotic acid (Chem.), picric acid. See under Picric.

The technical name for isocyanic acid. See under Isocyanic.

Pertaining to, or designating, an acid derived from coal tar and other sources; as, carbolic acid (called also phenic acid, and phenol). See Phenol.

To apply carbonic acid to; to wash or treat with carbolic acid.

sms or tables. When united with oxygen it forms carbon dioxide, commonly called carbonic acid, or carbonic oxide, according to the proportions of the oxygen; when united with hydrogen, it forms various compounds called hydrocarbons. Compare Diamond, and Graphite. Carbon compounds, Compounds of carbon (Chem.), those com…

The saturation of defecated beet juice with carbonic acid gas. Knight.

A salt or carbonic acid, as in limestone, some forms of lead ore, etc.

Combined or impregnated with carbonic acid.

Of, pertaining to, or obtained from, carbon; as, carbonic oxide. Carbonic acid (Chem.), an acid H2CO3, not existing separately, which, combined with positive or basic atoms or radicals, forms carbonates. On common language the term is very generally applied to a compound of carbon and oxygen, CO2, more correctly called…

ul crystalline compound, SiC, consisting of carbon and silicon in combination; carbon silicide. It is made by heating carbon and sand together in an electric furnace. The commercial article is dark-colored and iridescent. It is harder than emery, and is used as an abrasive.

A white crystalline substance, C9H6N.OH, of acid properties derived from one of the amido cinnamic acids.

adical, CO.OH, regarded as the essential and characteristic constituent which all oxygen acids of carbon (as formic, acetic, benzoic acids, etc.) have in common; -- called also oxatyl.

in a box, for protection; -- used commonly for carrying corrosive liquids; as sulphuric acid, etc.

of cochineal, extracted as a purple-red amorphous mass. It is a glucoside and possesses acid properties; -- hence called also carminic acid. Carmine red (Chem.), a coloring matter obtained from carmine as a purple-red substance, and probably allied to the phthaleïns.

Of or pertaining to, or derived from, carmine. Carminic acid. Same as Carmine, 3.

pertaining to or designating a hydroscopic monobasic acid, C10H15O5N3, obtained as a cleavage product from an acid of muscle tissue.

Chance; accident; hap; opportunity. [Obs.] By aventure, or sort, or cas. Chaucer.

OF or pertaining to cheese; as, caseic acid.

A tree (Anacardium occidentale) of the same family which the sumac. It is native in tropical America, but is now naturalized in all tropical countries. Its fruit, a kidney-shaped nut, grows at the extremity of an edible, pear-shaped hypocarp, about three inches long. Casbew nut, the large, kidney-shaped fruit of the ca…