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ferrous oxide

n. (context chemistry English) The chemical compound FeO, iron oxide where iron has a valence of +2. IUPAC has deprecated this term in favor of iron(II) oxide.

Usage examples of "ferrous oxide".

Most salt at Klima is white, but certain of the mines deliver red salt, red from ferrous oxide in its composition, which is called the Red Salt of Kasra, after its port of embarkation, at the juncture of the Upper and Lower Fayeen.

Not recorded as charges on a ferrous oxide layer but actually punched-free slots.

Already she tasted traces of ferrous oxide, calcium, and other minerals through her cilia.

Corrosion involved ferrous oxide, or rust, and its reaction to open air.

I'm not strong on chemistry, but I think this is powdered aluminium and ferrous oxide.

Our best guess is that the core rods oxydized, only instead of creating ferrous oxide, or rust, the way steel rods do, these rods rusted pure plutonium.