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tetraoxide

tetraoxide is the alternative spelling of tetroxide.

Meaning of tetroxide

Noun

tetroxide (plural tetroxides)

  1. any oxide containing four oxygen atoms in each molecule.
    • In the case of nitric acid, however, the employment of the aræometer introduces far greater errors than when it is used for sulphuric acid, hydrochloric acid, and in most other cases, as the concentrated nitric acids as a rule always contain nitrogen tetroxide in solution, the quantity being seldom...1905, Georg Lunge, Alfred Isaac Cohn, Techno‐Chemical Analysis, John Wiley & Sons, pages 57–58

Forms of tetraoxide

pluraltetraoxides

Origin of tetraoxide

From tetra- + oxide.

Words formed from tetraoxide

Questions about tetraoxide

What is tetraoxide the alternative spelling of?
Tetraoxide is the alternative spelling of tetroxide.

Words near tetraoxide in the dictionary

  1. tetraorganoleads
  2. tetraose
  3. tetraoses
  4. tetraoxane
  5. tetraoxanes
  6. tetraoxide
  7. tetraoxides
  8. tetraoxo
  9. tetraoxomanganate
  10. tetraoxomanganates
  11. tetraoxosilicate

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