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14 words match “HYDRIC”

HYDRIC a.
Pertaining to, or containing, hydrogen; as, hydric oxide. Hydric dioxide. (Chem.) See Hydrogen dioxide, under Hydrogen. -- Hydric oxide (Chem.), water. -- Hydric sulphate (Chem.), hydrogen sulphate or sulphuric acid.
CHLORHYDRIC a.
Same as Hydrochloric.
FLUOHYDRIC a.
See Hydrofluoric.
SELENHYDRIC a.
taining to, or designating, hydrogen selenide, H2Se, regarded as an acid analogous to sulphydric acid.
SULPHYDRIC a.
Of, pertaining to, or designating, hydrogen sulphide, which is regarded as an acid, especially when in solution.
TELLURHYDRIC a.
Of, pertaining to, or designating, hydrogen telluride, which is regarded as an acid, especially when in solution.
EQUIVALENT n.
und; as, the equivalents of hydrogen and oxygen in water are respectively 1 and 8, and in hydric dioxide 1 and 16.
HYDROCHLORIC a.
Pertaining to, or compounded of, chlorine and hydrogen gas; as, hydrochloric acid; chlorhydric. Hydrochloric acid (Chem.), hydrogen chloride; a colorless, corrosive gas, HCl, of pungent, suffocating odor. It is made in great quantities in the soda process, by the action of sulphuric acid on common salt. It has a great…
HYDROFLUORIC a.
Pertaining to, or containing, hydrogen and fluorine; fluohydric; as, hydrofluoric acid. Hydrofluoric acid (Chem.), a colorless, mobile, volatile liquid, HF, very corrosive in its action, and having a strong, pungent, suffocating odor. It is produced by the action of sulphuric acid on fluorite, and is usually collected…
IBSENISM n.
n -ous; as, ferric, sulphuric. It is also used in the general sense of pertaining to; as, hydric, sodic, calcic.
MICROCOSMIC; MICROCOSMICAL a.
obtained by mixing solutions of sodium phosphate and ammonium phosphate, and also called hydric-sodic- ammonic-phosphate. It is a powerful flux, and is used as a substitute for borax as a blowpipe reagent in testing for the metallic oxides. Originally obtained by the alchemists from human urine, and called sal microco…
SULPHYDRATE n.
A compound, analogous to a hydrate, regarded as a salt of sulphydric acid, or as a derivative of hydrogen sulphide in which one half of the hydrogen is replaced by a base (as potassium sulphydrate, KSH), or as a hydrate in which the oxygen has been wholly or partially replaced by sulphur.
TELLURETED n.
telluride, H2Te, a gaseous substance analogous to hydrogen sulphide; -- called also tellurhydric acid.
TRIOSE n.
A sugar derived from a trihydric alcohol.