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6 words match “HYPOSULPHUROUS”

HYPOSULPHUROUS a.
Pertaining to, or containing, sulphur, all, or a part, in a low state of oxidation. Hyposulphurous acid. (a) Thiosulphuric acid. [Obs.] (b) An acid, H2SO2, obtained by the reduction of sulphurous acid. It is not obtained in the free state, but in an orange-yellow water solution, which is a strong reducing and bleaching…
HYDROSULPHUROUS a.
Pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained by the reduction of sulphurous acid. See Hyposulphurous acid, under Hyposulphurous.
HYPO- n.
, or in a low state of oxidization, usually the lowest, into the compounds indicated; as, hyposulphurous acid.
HYPOSULPHITE n. 2 definitions
A salt of what was formerly called hyposulphurous acid; a thiosulphate. [Obs.]
SULPHINIC a.
ining to, or designating, any one of a series of acids regarded as acid ethereal salts of hyposulphurous acid; as, methyl sulphinic acid, CH3.SO.OH, a thick unstable liquid.
THIOSULPHURIC a.
r designating, an unstable acid, H2S2O3, analogous to sulphuric acid, and formerly called hyposulphurous acid.