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protoxid

protoxid is the archaic form of protoxide.

Meaning of protoxide

Noun

protoxide (plural protoxides)

  1. Any of a series of oxides of a particular metal that has the fewest atoms of oxygen per molecule
    • Oxy­gen frequently combines in various proportions with a substance, rendering it an oxide, but without advancing it to the state of an acid. In order to distinguish each compound thus formed, the language of chemistry is very systematic. The first is called a protoxide; the second a deutoxide; and...1846, unspecified, METALS, OXIDES, EARTHS AND ALKALIES

Forms of protoxid

pluralprotoxids

Questions about protoxid

What is protoxid the archaic form of?
Protoxid is the archaic form of protoxide.

Words near protoxid in the dictionary

  1. protovirus
  2. protoviruses
  3. protoword
  4. protowords
  5. protowriting
  6. protoxid
  7. protoxide
  8. protoxides
  9. protoxidize
  10. protoxidized
  11. protoxidizes

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