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A carbonate in which but half the hydrogen of the acid is replaced by a positive element or radical, thus making the proportion of the acid to the positive or basic portion twice what it is in the normal carbonates; an acid carbonate; -- sometimes
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A carbonate in which but half the hydrogen of the acid is replaced by a positive element or radical, thus making the proportion of the acid to the positive or basic portion twice what it is in the normal carbonates; an acid carbonate; -- sometimes called supercarbonate.
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- MAKE AND BREAK
Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker. - HYDROGENIUM
Hydrogen; -- called also in view of its supposed metallic nature. Graham. - PROPORTIONATE
Adjusted to something else according to a proportion; proportional. Longfellow. What is proportionate to his transgression. Locke. - MAKING-IRON
A tool somewhat like a chisel with a groove in it, used by calkers of ships to finish the seams after the oakum has been driven in. - REPLACEMENT
The removal of an edge or an angle by one or more planes. (more info) 1. The act of replacing. - ELEMENTAL
1. Pertaining to the elements, first principles, and primary ingredients, or to the four supposed elements of the material world; as, elemental air. "Elemental strife." Pope. 2. Pertaining to rudiments or first principles; rudimentary; elementary. - BASICITY
The quality or state of being a base. The power of an acid to unite with one or more atoms or equivalents of a base, as indicated by the number of replaceable hydrogen atoms contained in the acid. - ELEMENT
1. One of the simplest or essential parts or principles of which anything consists, or upon which the constitution or fundamental powers of anything are based. 2. One of the ultimate, undecomposable constituents of any kind of matter. Specifically: - PORTIONIST
One of the incumbents of a benefice which has two or more rectors or vicars. (more info) 1. A scholar at Merton College, Oxford, who has a certain academical allowance or portion; -- corrupted into postmaster. Shipley. - SOMETIMES
1. Formerly; sometime. That fair and warlike form In which the majesty of buried Denmark Did sometimes march. Shak. 2. At times; at intervals; now and then;occasionally. It is good that we sometimes be contradicted. Jer. Taylor. Sometimes . . . - RADICALNESS
Quality or state of being radical. - BASIC PROCESS
A Bessemer or open-hearth steel-making process in which a lining that is basic, or not siliceous, is used, and additions of basic material are made to the molten charge during treatment. Opposed to acid process, above. Called also Thomas process. - WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town. - PROPORTION
1. The relation or adaptation of one portion to another, or to the whole, as respect magnitude, quantity, or degree; comparative relation; ratio; as, the proportion of the parts of a building, or of the body. The image of Christ, made after his - ELEMENTALITY
The condition of being composed of elements, or a thing so composed. - HYDROGEN
A gaseous element, colorless, tasteless, and odorless, the lightest known substance, being fourteen and a half times lighter than air , and over eleven thousand times lighter than water. It is very abundant, being an ingredient of water and of - HYDROGENATE
To hydrogenize. - NORMAL
According to a square or rule; perpendicular; forming a right angle. Specifically: Of or pertaining to a normal. (more info) square; prob. akin to noscere to know; cf. Gr. normal. See Known, and 1. According to an established norm, rule, - PROPORTIONABLE
Capable of being proportioned, or made proportional; also, proportional; proportionate. -- Pro*por"tion*a*ble*ness, n. But eloquence may exist without a proportionable degree of wisdom. Burke. - MAKE
A companion; a mate; often, a husband or a wife. For in this world no woman is Worthy to be my make. Chaucer. - DISPROPORTIONALLY
In a disproportional manner; unsuitably in form, quantity, or value; unequally. - IMPROPORTIONATE
Not proportionate. - POLYBASIC
Capable of neutralizing, or of combining with, several molecules of a monacid base; having several hydrogen atoms capable of being replaced by basic radicals; -- said of certain acids; as, sulphuric acid is polybasic. - MANTUAMAKER
One who makes dresses, cloaks, etc., for women; a dressmaker. - DISPROPORTIONABLE
Disproportional; unsuitable in form, size, quantity, or adaptation; disproportionate; inadequate. -- Dis`pro*por"tion*a*ble*ness, n. Hammond. -- Dis`pro*por"tion*a*bly, adv. - DISPROPORTIONALITY
The state of being disproportional. Dr. H. More. - BOOTMAKER
One who makes boots. -- Boot"mak`ing, n. - SPORADICAL
Sporadic. - BRICKMAKER
One whose occupation is to make bricks. -- Brick"mak*ing, n. - REAPPORTIONMENT
A second or a new apportionment. - MISPROPORTION
To give wrong proportions to; to join without due proportion.