Word Meanings - BISMUTHIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Of or pertaining to bismuth; containing bismuth, when this element has its higher valence; as, bismuthic oxide.
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- HIGHER-UP
A superior officer or official; -- used chiefly in pl. - 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. - HIGHERING
Rising higher; ascending. In ever highering eagle circles. Tennyson. - 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: - CONTAINMENT
That which is contained; the extent; the substance. The containment of a rich man's estate. Fuller. - ELEMENTALITY
The condition of being composed of elements, or a thing so composed. - VALENCE
The degree of combining power of an atom as shown by the number of atoms of hydrogen (or of other monads, as chlorine, sodium, etc.) with which it will combine, or for which it can be substituted, or with which it can be compared; thus, an atom - CONTAINANT
A container. - PERTAIN
stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant - ELEMENTALISM
The theory that the heathen divinities originated in the personification of elemental powers. - ELEMENTATION
Instruction in the elements or first principles. - ELEMENTOID
Resembling an element. - CONTAINABLE
Capable of being contained or comprised. Boyle. - BISMUTHOUS
Of, or containing, bismuth, when this element has its lower valence. - CONTAINER
One who, or that which, contains. - ELEMENTAR
Elementary. Skelton. - ELEMENTARINESS
The state of being elementary; original simplicity; uncompounded state. - BISMUTHAL
Containing bismuth. - BISMUTH
One of the elements; a metal of a reddish white color, crystallizing in rhombohedrons. It is somewhat harder than lead, and rather brittle; masses show broad cleavage surfaces when broken across. It melts at 507ยบ Fahr., being easily fused in the - HIGHER THOUGHT
See BELOW - SESQUIOXIDE
An oxide containing three atoms of oxygen with two atoms (or radicals) of some other substance; thus, alumina, Al2O3 is a sesquioxide. - TRANSELEMENT; TRANSELEMENTATE
To change or transpose the elements of; to transubstantiate. Jer. Taylor. - CARBOXIDE
A compound of carbon and oxygen, as carbonyl, with some element or radical; as, potassium carboxide. Potassium carboxide, a grayish explosive crystalline compound, C6O6K, obtained by passing carbon monoxide over heated potassium. - TETRAVALENCE
The quality or state of being tetravalent; quadrivalence. - PARADOXIDES
A genus of large trilobites characteristic of the primordial formations. - SELF-CONTAINED
Having all the essential working parts connected by a bedplate or framework, or contained in a case, etc., so that mutual relations of the parts do not depend upon fastening outside of the machine itself. Self-contained steam engine. - SUPEROXIDE
See PEROXIDE - TETROXIDE
An oxide having four atoms of oxygen in the molecule; a quadroxide; as, osmium tetroxide, OsO. - MULTIVALENCE
Quality, state, or degree, of a multivalent element, atom, or radical. - HYPEROXIDE
A compound having a relatively large percentage of oxygen; a peroxide. - PREVALENCE
The quality or condition of being prevalent; superior strength, force, or influence; general existence, reception, or practice; wide extension; as, the prevalence of virtue, of a fashion, or of a disease; the prevalence of a rumor. The duke better