Word Meanings - DICARBONIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Containing two carbon residues, or two carboxyl or radicals; as, oxalic acid is a dicarbonic acid.

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• CARBON STEEL
  Steel deriving its qualities from carbon chiefly, without the presence of other alloying elements; --opposed to alloy steel.
• CARBONATATION
  The saturation of defecated beet juice with carbonic acid gas. Knight.
• CARBONIDE
  A carbide.
• CONTAINMENT
  That which is contained; the extent; the substance. The containment of a rich man's estate. Fuller.
• CARBONARISM
  The principles, practices, or organization of the Carbonari.
• CONTAINANT
  A container.
• CARBONIZATION
  The act or process of carbonizing.
• CARBONATED
  Combined or impregnated with carbonic acid.
• CARBONITE
  An explosive consisting essentially of nitroglycerin, wood meal, and some nitrate, as that of sodium. 2. An explosive composed of nitrobenzene, saltpeter, sulphur, and kieselguhr.
• OXALIC
  Pertaining to, derived from, or contained in, sorrel, or oxalis; specifically, designating an acid found in, and characteristic of, oxalis, and also certain plant of the Buckwheat family. Oxalic acid , a dibasic acid, existing combined in oxalis
• CARBON TRANSMITTER
  A telephone transmitter in which a carbon contact is used.
• CARBON PROCESS
  A printing process depending on the effect of light on bichromatized gelatin. Paper coated with a mixture of the gelatin and a pigment is called carbon paper or carbon tissue. This is exposed under a negative and the film is transferred from the
• CONTAINABLE
  Capable of being contained or comprised. Boyle.
• DICARBONIC
  Containing two carbon residues, or two carboxyl or radicals; as, oxalic acid is a dicarbonic acid.
• CARBONE
  To broil. "We had a calf's head carboned". Pepys.
• CARBONATE
  A salt or carbonic acid, as in limestone, some forms of lead ore, etc.
• CONTAINER
  One who, or that which, contains.
• CARBONADE; CARBONADO
  Flesh, fowl, etc., cut across, seasoned, and broiled on coals; a chop.
• CARBOXYL
  The complex radical, CO.OH, regarded as the essential and characteristic constituent which all oxygen acids of carbon (as formic, acetic, benzoic acids, etc.) have in common; -- called also oxatyl.
• CARBONACEOUS
  Pertaining to, containing, or composed of, carbon.
• MONOCARBONIC
  Containing one carboxyl group; as, acetic acid is a monocarbonic acid.
• DESOXALIC
  Made or derived from oxalic acid; as, desoxalic acid.
• HYDROCARBON
  A compound containing only hydrogen and carbon, as methane, benzene, etc.; also, by extension, any of their derivatives. Hydrocarbon burner, furnace, stove, a burner, furnace, or stove with which liquid fuel, as petroleum, is used.
• SUBCARBONIFEROUS
  Of or pertaining to the lowest division of the Carboniferous formations underlying the proper coal measures. It was a marine formation characterized in general by beds of limestone. -- n.
• DECARBONIZER
  He who, or that which, decarbonizes a substance.
• SULPHOCARBONIC
  Of, pertaining to, or designating, a sulphacid, H2CSO2 (called also thiocarbonic acid), or an acid, H2CS3, analogous to carbonic acid, obtained as a yellow oily liquid of a pungent odor, and forming salts.
• DECARBONIZE
  To deprive of carbon; as, to decarbonize steel; to decarbonize the blood. Decarbonized iron. See Malleable iron. -- Decarbonized steel, homogenous wrought iron made by a steel process, as that of Bessemer; ingot iron.
• DECARBONATE
  To deprive of carbonic acid.
• 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.
• GLYOXALIC
  Pertaining to, or designating, an aldehyde acid, intermediate between glycol and oxalic acid.
• DECARBONIZATION
  The action or process of depriving a substance of carbon.
• ORTHOCARBONIC
  Designating a complex ether, C. 4, which is obtained as a liquid of a pleasant ethereal odor by means of chlorpicrin, and is believed to be a derivative of the hypothetical normal carbonic acid,