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s putrefaction, or destroys, or protects from, putrefactive organisms; as, salt, carbolic acid, alcohol, cinchona.

ter] (Chem.), a very corrosive fuming yellow liquid consisting of nitric and hydrochloric acids. It has the power of dissolving gold, the "royal" metal. -- Aqua Tofana, a fluid containing arsenic, and used for secret poisoning, made by an Italian woman named Tofana, in the middle of the 17th century, who is said to ha…

Nitric acid. [Archaic]

of the composition C5H10O5, obtained from cherry gum by boiling it with dilute sulphuric acid.

Crude tartar; an acidulous salt from which cream of tartar is prepared. It exists in the juice of grapes, and is deposited from wines on the sides of the casks. Ure.

A salt of arsenic acid.

Arsenious oxide or arsenious anhydride; -- called also arsenious acid, white arsenic, and ratsbane.

ived from, arsenic, when having an equivalence next lower than the highest; as, arsenious acid.

A salt formed by the union of arsenious acid with a base.

o arterial blood during its passage through the lungs, oxygen being absorbed and carbonic acid evolved; -- called also aëration and hematosis.

Pertaining to, or derived, asparagine; as, aspartic acid.

A white crystalline compound of acetyl and salicylic acid used as a drug for the salicylic acid liberated from it in the intestines.

In chemistry it is used to denote the salts formed from those acids whose names end -ic (excepting binary or halogen acids); as, sulphate from sulphuric acid, nitrate from nitric acid, etc. It is also used in the case of certain basic salts.

compose or waste. On the fourth of March he was attacked by fever. Macaulay. Hydrofluoric acid . . . attacks the glass. B. Stewart.

A combination of auric acid with a base; as, aurate or potassium.

Combined with auric acid.

Pertaining to an acid produced by treating oleic with nitric acid. [R.]

ning to azote, or nitrogen; formed or consisting of azote; nitric; as, azotic gas; azotic acid. [R.] Carpenter.

A salt formed by the combination of azotous, or nitrous, acid with a base; a nitrite. [R.]

: Nitrous; as, azotous acid. [R.]