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Acid
noun · 78% connection
One of a class of compounds, generally but not always distinguished by their sour taste, solubility in water, and reddening of vegetab…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: ternary, compound, oxygen, sulphur.
Amphigen
noun · 78% connection
An element that in combination produces amphid salt; -- applied by Berzelius to oxygen, sulphur, selenium, and tellurium.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: ternary, compound, oxygen, sulphur.
Antozone
noun · 78% connection
A compound formerly supposed to be modification of oxygen, but now known to be hydrogen dioxide; -- so called because apparently antag…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: ternary, compound, oxygen, sulphur.
Arsenic
noun · 78% connection
One of the elements, a solid substance resembling a metal in its physical properties, but in its chemical relations ranking with the n…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: ternary, compound, oxygen, sulphur.
Bisilicate
noun · 78% connection
A salt of metasilicic acid; -- so called because the ratio of the oxygen of the silica to the oxygen of the base is as two to one. The…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: ternary, compound, oxygen, sulphur.
Brimstone
verb · 78% connection
Sulphur; See Sulphur.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: ternary, compound, oxygen, sulphur.
Burn
verb · 78% connection
To cause to combine with oxygen or other active agent, with evolution of heat; to consume; to oxidize; as, a man burns a certain amoun…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: ternary, compound, oxygen, sulphur.
Decompound
verb · 78% connection
To compound or mix with that is already compound; to compound a second time.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: ternary, compound, oxygen, sulphur.
Disulphide
noun · 78% connection
A binary compound of sulphur containing two atoms of sulphur in each molecule; -- formerly called disulphuret. Cf. Bisulphide.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: ternary, compound, oxygen, sulphur.
Drummond light
unknown · 78% connection
A very intense light, produced by turning two streams of gas, one oxygen and the other hydrogen, or coal gas, in a state of ignition,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: ternary, compound, oxygen, sulphur.
Hepar
noun · 78% connection
Liver of sulphur; a substance of a liver-brown color, sometimes used in medicine. It is formed by fusing sulphur with carbonates of th…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: ternary, compound, oxygen, sulphur.
Hydroxyl
noun · 78% connection
A compound radical, or unsaturated group, HO, consisting of one atom of hydrogen and one of oxygen. It is a characteristic part of the…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: ternary, compound, oxygen, sulphur.
Mercaptan
noun · 78% connection
Any one of series of compounds, hydrosulphides of alcohol radicals, in composition resembling the alcohols, but containing sulphur in…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: ternary, compound, oxygen, sulphur.
Metalloid
noun · 78% connection
Now, one of several elementary substances which in the free state are unlike metals, and whose compounds possess or produce acid, rath…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: ternary, compound, oxygen, sulphur.
Mineralizer
noun · 78% connection
An element which is combined with a metal, thus forming an ore. Thus, in galena, or lead ore, sulphur is a mineralizer; in hematite, o…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: ternary, compound, oxygen, sulphur.
Nickel
noun · 78% connection
A bright silver-white metallic element. It is of the iron group, and is hard, malleable, and ductile. It occurs combined with sulphur…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: ternary, compound, oxygen, sulphur.
Nonmetal
noun · 78% connection
Any one of the set of elements which, as contrasted with the metals, possess, produce, or receive, acid rather than basic properties;…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: ternary, compound, oxygen, sulphur.
O
unknown · 78% connection
Among the ancients, O was a mark of triple time, from the notion that the ternary, or number 3, is the most perfect of numbers, and pr…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: ternary, compound, oxygen, sulphur.
