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stannous
Word definitions for stannous in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stannous \Stan"nous\ (-n[u^]s), a. (Chem.) Pertaining to, or containing, tin; specifically, designating those compounds in which the element has a lower valence as contrasted with stannic compounds. Stannous chloride (Chem.), a white crystalline substance, ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. of or relating to or containing tin [syn: stannic ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. (context chemistry English) Containing bivalent tin.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1829, from Late Latin stannum "tin" (see stannic ) + -ous .
Usage examples of stannous.
Made by dissolving 12 grams of tartaric acid and 4 grams of stannous chloride in water, and adding potash solution till it is alkaline.
Another gram of the same ore, roasted, dissolved and titrated with stannous chloride, required 63.
Tin in solution as stannic or stannous chloride is precipitated as metal by means of zinc.
The antimony is precipitated as metal, and the tin remains in solution as stannous chloride.
The rest is recovered, after the removal of the stannous sulphide, by evaporating to dryness, taking up with hydrochloric acid, and filtering through the same filter.
A solution of tungstate acidulated with hydrochloric acid becomes intensely blue on the addition of stannous chloride and warming.
Uranic salts, on the other hand, are easily reduced by sulphuretted hydrogen, stannous chloride or zinc.
By adding freshly precipitated moist brown stannous oxide to cool nitric acid of sp.
Superfund site, located on the north end of Lake Stannous, where fishing was poor, and that combination kept most humans away.
It yields precipitates with alum, stannous chloride, chrome alum, silver nitrate, iron salts, copper sulphate.
South of town, just off the main road down to the shore of Lake Stannous, you could find weed-grown streets and concrete foundations where houses had once stood, built by Condite Copper Company to house miners' families.
And cellulose acetate, which was very cheap, was another one we couldn't plate at first, though we finally discovered that putting it in sodium hydroxide for a little while before using the stannous chloride made it plate very well.
During the next month he tried aureomycin, bacitracin, stannous flouride, hexylresorcinol, cortisone, penicillin, hexachlorophene, shark-liver extract, and 7,312 assorted other miracles of modern medical science, all to no avail.