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from The Century Dictionary.

  • A term applied by Berzelius to the salts of those acids which contain oxygen, to distinguish them from the haloid salts.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Chem.), rare A salt of the class formed by the combination of an acid and a base, or by the union of two oxides, two sulphides, selenides, or tellurides, as distinguished from a haloid compound.

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  • noun nematology One of a pair of chemosensory sense organs positioned laterally on the head of a nematode

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