(chemistry) a substance formed by chemical union of two or more elements or ingredients in definite proportion by weight

Usage examples of compound.

It is often compounded with the term above, and rendered Abor, Aborus, Aborras: and it is otherwise diversified.

Yuuzhan Vong warrior casually walked out of the compound, wearing his starfish breathing adaptor, for he could not bring himself to trust the mechanical breathing apparatus of the enviro-suits.

So sure was I that all the statements of Agassiz were correct and all his conclusions sound, that any doubts or criticisms upon the part of my acute and unprejudiced friend shocked me as a reprehensible compound of heresy and lese-majesty.

And it was an outlandish idea, akh was a compound made of the hottest peppers, the strongest garlic, and a brew of aged fish stock.

I have already secured the Compound: two homes with a 50-meter pool on the edge of the sea on Alii Drive in Kona, where the sun always shines.

Other dye-stuffs, such as fustic, Persian berries and Alizarine yellow, are best dyed on a basic chrome mordant, which is effected when tartar or oxalic acid is the assistant mordant used, or when some other form of chrome compound than bichrome is employed.

All, that is, except this red dust, which is an allomorphic precipitate of the radioactive bromine compounds used in the fuel.

Sandpaper, calking material and calking compound, antifouling marine hull paint, deck paint and varnish.

It was very long, made up of rites which however gorgeous, to me were but mummeries, ending in a kind of sacramental feast whereat all of us from Pharaoh down, must touch with our lips a broth compounded from the flesh of the dead Apis, the smell of which broth--for taste it I did not--revolted me.

Its ramp lowered and the three Dragons roared out, splashed into the water, and raced toward the Aquarius Station compound, forming a line three abreast as they went.

He came off the couch with the swiftness of a powerful animal and gripped the wall as though he would leap over it to the dirt compound below.

On the contrary, his idea was significant because it was a theory that explained how chemical compounds are formed and because the idea of atoms with different relative weights made it possible to turn chemistry into a quantitative science.

Leeds had dropped by the Aussie compound in Quivira Basin on Thursday morning and promised to join a hundred other sailing-stupids who were not supposed to know the location of the boozer bash.

Space and Prinz squatted near the campfire, too excited to drinking balche, the Mayan drink compound of bark and honey fermented in water, and they were slightly intoxicated.

Humvee just past the barbed wire fence, then led her across the grounds of the compound.