Definitions
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 threeoxygen atoms in eachmolecule - noun chemistry any
organic compound ofgeneral formula R-OOO-R', derived fromtrioxidane
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an oxide containing three atoms of oxygen in the molecule
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Examples
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Smelters may collect this dust and take out the arsenic as a compound called arsenic trioxide (As2O3).
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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
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Oxides of sulfur include sulfur dioxide (SO2) and sulfur trioxide (SO3).
AP Environmental Science Chapter 16- Air, Water and Soils 2008
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The main oxidation product is triuranium octaoxide (U3O8), but uranium dioxide (UO2) and uranium trioxide (UO3) will also be formed.
Depleted uranium 2008
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Main exports to Greece include: dump trucks, fresh fruit, frozen fish, PET (polyethelene terephthalate), steel coils, chromium trioxide, hides and skins, and digital decoders.
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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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