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-ably
unknown · 78% connection
A suffix composed of -able and the adverbial suffix -ly; as, favorably.
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-ic
unknown · 78% connection
A suffix signifying, in general, relating to, or characteristic of; as, historic, hygienic, telegraphic, etc.
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-ism
unknown · 78% connection
A suffix indicating an act, a process, the result of an act or a process, a state; also, a characteristic (as a theory, doctrine, idio…
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-ite
unknown · 78% connection
A suffix used in naming minerals; as, chlorite, from its characteristic green color; barite, from its heaviness; graphite, from its us…
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-ol
unknown · 78% connection
A suffix denoting that the substance in the name of which it appears belongs to the series of alcohols or hydroxyl derivatives, as car…
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-ous
unknown · 78% connection
A suffix denoting that the element indicated by the name bearing it, has a valence lower than that denoted by the termination -ic; as,…
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Alcohol
noun · 78% connection
A class of compounds analogous to vinic alcohol in constitution. Chemically speaking, they are hydroxides of certain organic radicals;…
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Arrhenius theory of dissociation
noun · 78% connection
(chemistry) theory that describes aqueous solutions in terms of acids (which dissociate to give hydrogen ions) and bases (which dissoc…
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Atom
noun · 78% connection
A basic particle of an element.
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Carbonyl
noun · 78% connection
The radical (CO)'', occuring, always combined, in many compounds, as the aldehydes, the ketones, urea, carbonyl chloride, etc.
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Carboxide
noun · 78% connection
A compound of carbon and oxygen, as carbonyl, with some element or radical; as, potassium carboxide.
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Chemism
noun · 78% connection
The force exerted between the atoms of elementary substance whereby they unite to form chemical compounds; chemical attaction; affinit…
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Chlorhydrin
noun · 78% connection
One of a class of compounds formed from certain polybasic alcohols (and especially glycerin) by the substitution of chlorine for one o…
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Ether
noun · 78% connection
A light, volatile, mobile, inflammable liquid, (C2H5)2O, of a characteristic aromatic odor, obtained by the distillation of alcohol wi…
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Ethylate
noun · 78% connection
A compound derived from ethyl alcohol by the replacement of the hydroxyl hydrogen, after the manner of a hydrate; an ethyl alcoholate;…
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Flavol
noun · 78% connection
A yellow, crystalline substance, obtained from anthraquinone, and regarded as a hydroxyl derivative of it.
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Glyceryl
noun · 78% connection
a trivalent radical derived from glycerol by removing the three hydroxyl radicals
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Hydrate
noun · 78% connection
A substance which does not contain water as such, but has its constituents (hydrogen, oxygen, hydroxyl) so arranged that water may be…
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