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Acid
adjective · 78% connection
Sour, sharp, or biting to the taste; tart; having the taste of vinegar: as, acid fruits or liquors. Also fig.: Sour-tempered.
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 consume with fire; to reduce to ashes by the action of heat or fire; -- frequently intensified by up: as, to burn up wood.
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
Formerly, the metallic base of a fixed alkali, or alkaline earth; -- applied by Sir H. Davy to sodium, potassium, and some other metal…
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.
