Word Meanings - EUCHLORINE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A yellow or greenish yellow gas, first prepared by Davy, evolved from potassium chlorate and hydrochloric acid. It is supposed to consist of chlorine tetroxide with some free chlorine.

Related words: (words related to EUCHLORINE)

• YELLOW-GOLDS
  A certain plant, probably the yellow oxeye. B. Jonson.
• YELLOWTOP
  A kind of grass, perhaps a species of Agrostis.
• YELLOWFISH
  A rock trout found on the coast of Alaska; -- called also striped fish, and Atka mackerel.
• EVOLVENT
  The involute of a curve. See Involute, and Evolute.
• FIRST
  Sw. & Dan. förste, OHG. furist, G. fürst prince; a superlatiye form 1. Preceding all others of a series or kind; the ordinal of one; earliest; as, the first day of a month; the first year of a reign. 2. Foremost; in front of, or in advance of,
• CHLORINE
  One of the elementary substances, commonly isolated as a greenish yellow gas, two and one half times as heavy as air, of an intensely disagreeable suffocating odor, and exceedingly poisonous. It is abundant in nature, the most important compound
• CONSISTENTLY
  In a consistent manner.
• CONSIST
  1. To stand firm; to be in a fixed or permanent state, as a body composed of parts in union or connection; to hold together; to be; to exist; to subsist; to be supported and maintained. He is before all things, and by him all things consist. Col.
• PREPARATIVELY
  By way of preparation.
• CONSISTORIAN
  Pertaining to a Presbyterian consistory; -- a contemptuous term of 17th century controversy. You fall next on the consistorian schismatics; for so you call Presbyterians. Milton.
• GREENISH
  Somewhat green; having a tinge of green; as, a greenish yellow. -- Green"ish*ness, n.
• YELLOW
  1. A bright golden color, reflecting more light than any other except white; the color of that part of the spectrum which is between the orange and green. "A long motley coat guarded with yellow." Shak. 2. A yellow pigment. Cadmium yellow, Chrome
• HYDROCHLORIC
  Pertaining to, or compounded of, chlorine and hydrogen gas; as, hydrochloric acid; chlorhydric. Hydrochloric acid , hydrogen chloride; a colorless, corrosive gas, HCl, of pungent, suffocating odor. It is made in great quantities in the
• POTASSIUM
  An Alkali element, occurring abundantly but always combined, as in the chloride, sulphate, carbonate, or silicate, in the minerals sylvite, kainite, orthoclase, muscovite, etc. Atomic weight 39.0. Symbol K . Note: It is reduced from the carbonate
• YELLOWBILL
  The American scoter.
• CONSISTENCE; CONSISTENCY
  1. The condition of standing or adhering together, or being fixed in union, as the parts of a body; existence; firmness; coherence; solidity. Water, being divided, maketh many circles, till it restore itself to the natural consistence. Bacon. We
• YELLOWWOOD
  The wood of any one of several different kinds of trees; also, any one of the trees themselves. Among the trees so called are the Cladrastis tinctoria, an American leguminous tree; the several species of prickly ash ; the Australian Flindersia
• TETROXIDE
  An oxide having four atoms of oxygen in the molecule; a quadroxide; as, osmium tetroxide, OsO.
• YELLOWHAMMER
  A common European finch . The color of the male is bright yellow on the breast, neck, and sides of the head, with the back yellow and brown, and the top of the head and the tail quills blackish. Called also yellow bunting, scribbling lark, and
• FIRST-CLASS
  Of the best class; of the highest rank; in the first division; of the best quality; first-rate; as, a first-class telescope. First- class car or First-class railway carriage, any passenger car of the highest regular class, and intended
• PEPSINHYDROCHLORIC
  See PEPTOHYDROCHLORIC
• IMPREPARATION
  Want of preparation. Hooker.
• HYDROCHLORATE
  See HYDROCHLORIDE
• REVOLVABLE
  That may be revolved.
• DEVOLVEMENT
  The act or process of devolving;; devolution.
• REVOLVENCY
  The act or state of revolving; revolution. Its own revolvency upholds the world. Cowper.
• INCONSISTENTLY
  In an inconsistent manner.