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Definition of Anhydrides
1. anhydride [n] - See also: anhydride
Medical Definition of Anhydrides
1. Chemical compounds derived from a substance, especially an acid, by the abstraction of a molecule of water. The anhydrides of bases are oxides; those of alcohols are ethers. (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Anhydrides
Literary usage of Anhydrides
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Text-book of organic chemistry by Arnold Frederick Holleman (1913)
"ORGANIC CHEMISTRY. Formation of anhydrides. [§ 168 168. Oxalic acid and malonic
acid do uot yield anhydrides (165), while succinic acid, ..."
2. Principles of Theoretical Chemistry, with Special Reference to the by Ira Remsen (1892)
"anhydrides.—The anhydrides of carbon compounds are derived from carbon acids in
the same way that anhydrides in general are derived from acids; ..."
3. Elements of Chemistry: Theoretical and Practical by William Allen Miller, Charles Edward Groves, Herbert McLeod (1878)
"The general properties of these bodies may be illustrated bv examining the several
combinations formed by sulphuric and sulphurous anhydrides with dry ..."
4. Elements of Chemistry: Theoretical and Practical by William Allen Miller (1862)
"But the following proof of the correctness of the theory of this duplicate
composition of the anhydrides, will, perhaps, by many be esteemed still more ..."
5. Practical organic and bio-chemistry by Robert Henry Aders Plimmer (1920)
"Mixed anhydrides can be prepared by using different acyl chlorides and ...
The anhydrides are liquids possessing a pungent smell, but do not fume in the air ..."
6. Chemistry of the Carbon Compounds: Or, Organic Chemistry by Victor von Richter (1891)
"The anhydrides of the oxy-acids may be produced in three ways. If two molecules
of the acids unite so that the water can be ..."
7. Lecture Notes for Chemical Students by Edward Frankland (1881)
"anhydrides of the I CO dihydric monobasic< 0 0. acids . ... The residues of
different acids unite to form mixed anhydrides analogous to the mixed ethers. ..."
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