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tetroxides

tetroxides is the plural 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

Questions about tetroxides

What is tetroxides the plural of?
Tetroxides is the plural of tetroxide.

Words near tetroxides in the dictionary

  1. Tetros
  2. tetrose
  3. tetroses
  4. tetroxid
  5. tetroxide
  6. tetroxides
  7. tetroxids
  8. tetroxoprim
  9. tetrozolium
  10. tetryl
  11. tetrylammonium

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