Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Chem.) Containing or derived from nitrogen having a lower valence than in nitrous compounds.
- adjective (Chem.) an unstable nitrogen acid, NOH, whose salts are produced by reduction of the nitrates, although the acid itself is not isolated in the free state except as a solution in water; -- called also
nitrosylic acid .
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- adjective Of or pertaining to
hyponitrous acid or its derivatives
Etymologies
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Examples
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It produces deep red fumes as soon as it comes in contact with the air, by combining with the oxygen of the latter to form hyponitrous acid.
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Binoxide of nitrogen is composed of two parts of oxygen and one part of nitrogen; hyponitrous acid is composed of one part of nitrogen and three parts of oxygen.
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If I had taken mercury and converted it into vapor (as I could easily do), I should have a perfectly colorless vapor; for you must understand this about vapors, that bodies in what we call the vaporous or the gaseous state are always perfectly transparent, never cloudy or smoky; they are, however, often colored, and we can frequently have colored vapors or gases produced by colorless particles themselves mixing together, as in this case [the lecturer here inverted a glass cylinder full of binoxide of nitrogen (2) over a cylinder of oxygen, when the dark red vapor of hyponitrous acid was produced].
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