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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In botany, a thallogen: a name applied by Brongniart to those cryptogams (the algæ, fungi, and lichens) which increase by development of cellular tissue in all directions, and not at the summit of a distinct axis.
- noun 2. In chem., an element, like oxygen, capable of forming with other elements acid and basic compounds.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Chem.), rare An element that in combination produces amphid salt; -- applied by Berzelius to oxygen, sulphur, selenium, and tellurium.
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- noun chemistry, obsolete An
element that incombination producesamphid salt ; applied by Jöns Jacob Berzelius tooxygen ,sulphur ,selenium , andtellurium .
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