Word Meanings - HOLMIA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An oxide of holmium.

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• HOLMIUM
  A rare element said to be contained in gadolinite. -- Hol"mic, a.
• OXIDE
  A binary compound of oxygen with an atom or radical, or a compound which is regarded as binary; as, iron oxide, ethyl oxide, nitrogen oxide, etc. Note: In the chemical nomenclature adopted by Guyton de Morveau, Lavoisier,and their associates, the
• SESQUIOXIDE
  An oxide containing three atoms of oxygen with two atoms (or radicals) of some other substance; thus, alumina, Al2O3 is a sesquioxide.
• 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.
• PARADOXIDES
  A genus of large trilobites characteristic of the primordial formations.
• SUPEROXIDE
  See PEROXIDE
• TETROXIDE
  An oxide having four atoms of oxygen in the molecule; a quadroxide; as, osmium tetroxide, OsO.
• HYPEROXIDE
  A compound having a relatively large percentage of oxygen; a peroxide.
• SUROXIDE
  A peroxide.
• QUADROXIDE
  A tetroxide.
• DIOXIDE
  An oxide containing two atoms of oxygen in each molecule; binoxide. An oxide containing but one atom or equivalent of oxygen to two of a metal; a suboxide. Carbon dioxide. See Carbonic acid, under Carbonic.
• HYDROXIDE
  A hydrate; a substance containing hydrogen and oxygen, made by combining water with an oxide, and yielding water by elimination. The hydroxides are regarded as compounds of hydroxyl, united usually with basic element or radical; as, calcium
• DINOXIDE
  See DIOXIDE
• PEROXIDE
  An oxide containing more oxygen than some other oxide of the same element. Formerly peroxides were regarded as the highest oxides. Cf. Per-, 2.
• BINOXIDE
  See DIOXIDE
• SUBOXIDE
  An oxide containing a relatively small amount of oxygen, and less than the normal proportion; as, potassium suboxide, K4O.
• MONOXIDE
  An oxide containing one atom of oxygen in each molecule; as, barium monoxide.
• DEUTOXIDE
  A compound containing in the molecule two atoms of oxygen united with some other element or radical; -- usually called dioxide, or less frequently, binoxide.
• TRIOXIDE
  An oxide containing three atoms of oxygen; as, sulphur trioxide, SO3; -- formerly called tritoxide.
• PROTOXIDE
  That one of a series of oxides having the lowest proportion of oxygen. See Proto-, 2 . protoxide of nitrogen, laughing gas, now called hyponitrous oxideNO. See under Laughing.