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Definition of Columbic

1. a. Pertaining to, or containing, columbium or niobium; niobic.

2. a. Pertaining to, or derived from, the columbo root.

Definition of Columbic

1. pertaining to niobium [adj] - See also: niobium

Lexicographical Neighbors of Columbic

Literary usage of Columbic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A System of Chemistry for the Use of Students of Medicine by Franklin Bache (1819)
"Columbia I. columbic ACID may be formed by detonating a, obtained" m'xture of pulverized columbium and nitrate of potash (nitre), in a red-hot crucible. ..."

2. Hand-book of Chemistry by Leopold Gmelin, Henry Watts (1866)
"The precipitate is freed from admixed berberine by washing with water, and from columbin by boiling with ether, which dissolves also a little columbic acid, ..."

3. A System of Chemistry of Inorganic Bodies by Thomas Thomson (1831)
"This acid was first formed and examined by Berzelius, during his researches on fluoric acid.* When fluoric acid is poured upon columbic acid which had been ..."

4. The Philosophy of Experimental Chemistry by James Cutbush (1813)
"It unites with the alkalies, and forms crystallizable salts of a beautiful orange colour. SECTION XVIII. OF columbic ACID. ..."

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