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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun An oxide containing three oxygen atoms per molecule.

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

  • noun (Chem.) An oxide containing three atoms of oxygen; ; -- formerly called tritoxide.

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  • noun chemistry any oxide containing three oxygen atoms in each molecule
  • noun chemistry any organic compound of general formula R-OOO-R', derived from trioxidane

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  • noun an oxide containing three atoms of oxygen in the molecule

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Examples

  • A refining facility handles this purification, and then chemically transforms the yellow cake into uranium trioxide, which is now suitable for FURTHER PROCESSING.

    Trail of Nuclear Tears-Exposing Nuclear's Horrid Truths (part one) 2007

  • The trioxide is a white powder readily dissolved by ammonia.

    A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. Cornelius Beringer 1886

  • The vapors would bond with any number of substances left by the finger—amino and lactic acids, glucose, potassium and carbon trioxide—and the resulting reaction created a visible print.

    The Burning Wire Jeffery Deaver 2010

  • The vapors would bond with any number of substances left by the finger—amino and lactic acids, glucose, potassium and carbon trioxide—and the resulting reaction created a visible print.

    The Burning Wire Jeffery Deaver 2010

  • Smelters may collect this dust and take out the arsenic as a compound called arsenic trioxide (As2O3).

    Health effects of arsenic 2009

  • After initial refining, which may involve the production of uranyl nitrate, uranium trioxide is reduced in a kiln by hydrogen to uranium dioxide.

    Uranium enrichment 2009

  • Oxides of sulfur include sulfur dioxide (SO2) and sulfur trioxide (SO3).

    AP Environmental Science Chapter 16- Air, Water and Soils 2008

  • The main oxidation product is triuranium octaoxide (U3O8), but uranium dioxide (UO2) and uranium trioxide (UO3) will also be formed.

    Depleted uranium 2008

  • Main exports to Greece include: dump trucks, fresh fruit, frozen fish, PET (polyethelene terephthalate), steel coils, chromium trioxide, hides and skins, and digital decoders.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2008

  • Depending on the country, and enrichment means to be used, the uranium trioxide goes through even more processing at a conversion plant, where it is transformed into either uranium dioxide or uranium hexafluoride, the feedstock for enriched light water reactor fuel.

    Trail of Nuclear Tears-Exposing Nuclear's Horrid Truths (part one) 2007

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