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sesquioxyd

sesquioxyd is the obsolete form of sesquioxide.

Meaning of sesquioxide

Noun

sesquioxide (plural sesquioxides)

  1. Any oxide containing three oxygen atoms for every two atoms of another element.

Forms of sesquioxyd

pluralsesquioxyds

Questions about sesquioxyd

What is sesquioxyd the obsolete form of?
Sesquioxyd is the obsolete form of sesquioxide.

Words near sesquioxyd in the dictionary

  1. sesquioxides
  2. sesquioxidize
  3. sesquioxidized
  4. sesquioxidizes
  5. sesquioxidizing
  6. sesquioxyd
  7. sesquioxyds
  8. sesquipedal
  9. sesquipedalian
  10. sesquipedalianism
  11. sesquipedalianisms

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