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A large sturgeon (Acipenser huso) from the region of the Black Sea. It is sometimes twelve feet long.

An extravagant fiction embodying an account of some marvelous exploit or adventure.

higher state of oxidation. Disulphuric acid, a thick oily liquid, H2S2O7, called also Nordhausen acid (from Nordhausen in the Harts, where it was originally manufactured), fuming sulphuric acid, and especially pyrosulphuric acid. See under Pyrosulphuric.

tains a length of more than twelve feet, and a weight of two thousand pounds. Called also hausen.

use of in the quadrature of other curves; as the quadratrix, of Dinostratus, or of Tschirnhausen.

ic acid, and now popularly vitriol, and oil of vitriol. -- Fuming sulphuric acid, or Nordhausen sulphuric acid. See Disulphuric acid, under Disulphuric. -- Sulphuric anhydride, sulphur trioxide. See under Sulphur. -- Sulphuric ether, common anæsthetic ether; -- so called because made by the catalytic action of sulph…