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A compound of an oxide with water
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hydroxide
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Hydroxide is a diatomic anion with chemical formula OH. It consists of an oxygen and hydrogen atom held together by a covalent bond , and carries a negative electric charge . It is an important but usually minor constituent of water . It functions as a ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1851, from hydro- + oxide .
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hydroxide \Hy*drox"ide\, n. [Hydro-, 2 + oxide.] (Chem.) A hydrate; a substance containing hydrogen and oxygen, made by combining water with an oxide, and yielding water by elimination. The hydroxides are regarded as compounds of hydroxyl, united usually ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a compound of an oxide with water [syn: hydrated oxide ] a chemical compound containing the hydroxyl group
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context chemistry English) An univalent anion (OH - ) based on the hydroxyl functional group. 2 Any substance containing such an anion.
Usage examples of hydroxide.
Sodium hydroxide concentrations may also need to be increased to complete extraction of the more stubborn minerals.
Thomsen decomposed cryolite with calcium hydroxide into calcium fluoride and sodium aluminate.
He filtered off the former, and added carbon dioxide to get aluminum hydroxide and sodium carbonate.
The water that drips out contains sodium hydroxide, lye, which is a stronger cleanser.
Putting ,graphite electrodes on either side of a bath of salt water generates sodium hydroxide, which is useful in making good-quality soap and is a basic chemical starting point for thousands of other things.
Long ago, humans had used bulky oxygen tanks, and then rebreathers, which processed exhaled air, removing the carbon dioxide by mixing it with alkaline hydroxide, and then injecting the resultant oxygen with helium.
It meant that the lithium hydroxide canisters in the air-circulation system were foiling to filter not only bad smells, but carbon dioxide.
Petya sat back on his haunches while she pulled out the lithium hydroxide canisters.
I hate what Hello does - strips wooden furniture, cabinets, Davenport chests, by immersing the furniture in sodium hydroxide solution then hosing it down.
Most conveniently the conversion is carried out by dissolving the ammo ester or mixture containing the ammo ester in a minimum amount of alcohol and adding to the mixture a twofold amount of 4 N alcoholic potassium hydroxide solution.
The first time I had seen her she had been walking through the chemistry lab with a bottle of lithium aluminum hydroxide in her hand.
Then add sodium hydroxide solution until the precipitate which first forms is redissolved and a clear blue liquid obtained.
He found that the acids bleached or eliminated the galled ink writing, while the sodium hydroxide changed the color to a dark red.
But you can do the same thing with thymolphthalein indicator and sodium hydroxide.
He had, certainly, seen the thing shovel indiscriminate loads of crystals into its mouth -- calcium carbonate, aluminum hydroxide, anything -- and later emit amorphous powders from one vent and water from another.