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Of or pertaining to tungsten; derived from, or resembling, tungsten; wolframic; as, tungstic oxide. Tungstic acid, an acid of tungsten, H2WO4, analogous to sulphuric and chromic acids.

designating, an acid known only in its salts (the metatungstates) and properly called polytungstic, or pyrotungstic, acid.

Containing several tungsten atoms or radicals; as, polytungstic acid. Polytungstic acid (Chem.), any one of several complex acids of tungsten containing more than one atom of tungsten.

Polytungstic. See Metatungstic.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, any one of a series of double acids of silicon and tungsten, known in the free state, and also in their salts (called silicotungstates).

Of, pertaining to, or designating, hypothetical sulphacid of tungsten (called also sulphowolframic acid), analogous to sulphuric acid, and known in its salts.

A salt of metatungstic acid.

A metallic oxide occurring in earthy form; as, tungstic ocher or tungstite.

A salt of polytungstic acid.

derivative by the action of heat; as in pyrophosphoric, pyrosulphuric, pyrotartaric, pyrotungstic, etc.

A salt of sulphotungstic acid.

A salt of tungstic acid; a wolframate.

Scheelite, or calcium tungstate. [Obs.] Tungsten ocher, or Tungstic ocher (Min.), tungstate.

Of or pertaining to wolframium. See Tungstic.