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Definition of Hydracid

1. n. An acid containing hydrogen; -- sometimes applied to distinguish acids like hydrochloric, hydrofluoric, and the like, which contain no oxygen, from the oxygen acids or oxacids. See Acid.

Definition of Hydracid

1. Noun. (chemistry) An acid that does not contain any oxygen as opposed to an oxyacid; they are all binary compounds of hydrogen and a halogen or pseudohalogen. ¹

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Definition of Hydracid

1. an acid [n -S] - See also: acid

Medical Definition of Hydracid

1. An acid containing hydrogen; sometimes applied to distinguish acids like hydrochloric, hydrofluoric, and the like, which contain no oxygen, from the oxygen acids or oxacids. See Acid. Origin: Hydr- + acid: cf. F. Hydracide. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

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Literary usage of Hydracid

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

1. Questions in chemistry asked at the examinations held by the New York State by Richard John Ernst Scott (1903)
"... page 405; (b) A compound of hydrogen and one other element or radicle; (c) Simon's Manual of Chemistry, page 37; (d) A salt derived from a hydracid. ..."

2. Elements of Chemistry by Victor Regnault, James Curtis Booth, William L. Faber (1865)
"The saturation of the hydracid by the base, ascertained by means of coloured reagents, is often as complete as those of a powerful ..."

3. Elements of Chemistry: Including the Recent Discoveries and Doctrines of the by Edward Turner (1833)
"The hydracid unites as such with the alkalies, while some of the metals are precipitated by it in combination with its radical. Frequently, as with acetate ..."

4. Annals of Philosophy by Richard Phillips, Edward William Brayley (1825)
"When this hydracid is placed in contact with potash, the alkali is reduced by the hydrogen of the acid, water is formed, and the potassium unites with the ..."

5. The Glasgow Mechanics' Magazine: And Annals of Philosophy (1826)
"The sulphate of potash thus formed, ought to be regarded as a compound, not of sulphuric acid and potash, but of potassium and the radical of the hydracid, ..."

6. The Dublin Journal of Medical and Chemical Science (1832)
"... the second, composed of a hydracid united to a base; of the first, ... they did not consist of the hydracid united to the base, but of the radical of ..."

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