Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See oxid, oxide.
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Examples
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The word oxyd, then, simply means a metal combined with oxygen?
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I always do in the _dénouement_ of bad cases -- ether -- nitrous oxyd.
The Opium Habit Horace B. Day
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Nitrous oxyd I am still experimenting with, but its simple undiffused form is too powerful an agent to use with a patient who for many days must be hourly treated for persevering pain.
The Opium Habit Horace B. Day
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The principle is as fully developed by the painless extraction of teeth, as by the painless amputation of a limb; by the successful use of nitrous oxyd gas, as of rectified sulphuric ether.
The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851 Various
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Our first impression was, that it possessed all the anæsthetic properties of the nitrous oxyd, was equally safe, and could be prepared with less trouble, thus affording an article which was not expensive, and could always be kept at hand.
The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851 Various
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It cannot be denied, however, that this gaseous oxyd of carbon
Priestley in America 1794-1804 Edgar Fahs Smith 1891
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Some peats leave on burning much carbonate of lime; others chiefly sulphate of lime; the ash of others again is mostly oxyd of iron; silicic, and phosphoric acids, magnesia, potash, soda, alumina and chlorine, also occur in small quantities in the ash of all peats.
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Silica, oxyd of iron and alumina are thus dissolved.
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We set off about nine o'clock, and passed the Upper Chickasaw Bluffs; these bluffs are of soft sand-stone rock, of a yellow colour, but some parts being highly charged with oxyd of iron, the whole has a clouded appearance, and is considered as a curiosity by the boatmen.
Travels in the Interior of America, in the Years 1809, 1810, and 1811 1819
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Almost the whole north-side is composed of steep rocks, covered with large masses of oxyd of iron, or with regular columns of basalt which, for the most part, still preserve their vertical position.
Naufrage de la frigate la Méduse. English Jean Baptiste Henri Savigny 1818
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