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A kind of garlic (Allium Moly) with large yellow flowers; -- called also golden garlic.

A salt of molybdic acid.

See Molybdenite.

occurring in soft, lead-gray, foliated masses or scales, resembling graphite; sulphide of molybdenum.

See Molybdous.

A rare element of the chromium group, occurring in nature in the minerals molybdenite and wulfenite, and when reduced obtained as a hard, silver-white, difficulty fusible metal. Symbol Mo. Atomic weight 95.9.

Of, pertaining to, or containing, molybdenum; specif., designating those compounds in which the element has a higher valence, as contrasted with molybdous compounds; as, molybdic oxide.

Molybdic ocher.

Of, pertaining to, or containing, molybdenum; specif., designating those compounds in which molybdenum has a lower valence as contrasted with molybdic compounds.

The act or process of separating mingled gases of unequal diffusibility by transmission through porous substances.

Separation by atmolysis.

To subject to atmolysis; to separate by atmolysis.

An apparatus for effecting atmolysis.

A term sometimes applied to the decomposition of organic substance into more simple bodies, by the use of chemical agents alone. Thudichum.

Same as Hæmatolysis, Hæmatolytic.

The resolution of a compound into parts by heat; dissociation by heat.

Of or pertaining to thermolysis.

To subject to thermolysis; to dissociate by heat.

The action of enzymes; also, the changes produced by such action. --Zy`mo*lyt"ic (#), a.

Dissolution of the red blood corpuscles with diminished coagulability of the blood; hæmolysis. -- Hæm`a*to*lyt"ic (#), a.