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Definition of Hydroxide

1. Noun. A compound of an oxide with water.

Definition of Hydroxide

1. n. A hydrate; a substance containing hydrogen and oxygen, made by combining water with an oxide, and yielding water by elimination. The hydroxides are regarded as compounds of hydroxyl, united usually with basic element or radical; as, calcium hydroxide ethyl hydroxide.

Definition of Hydroxide

1. Noun. (chemistry) An univalent anion (OH^-1) based on the hydroxyl functional group. ¹

2. Noun. Any substance containing such an anion. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Hydroxide

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Medical Definition of Hydroxide

1. A hydrate; a substance containing hydrogen and oxygen, made by combining water with an oxide, and yielding water by elimination. The hydroxides are regarded as compounds of hydroxyl, united usually with basic element or radical; as, calcium hydroxide ethyl hydroxide. Origin: Hydro-, 2 + oxide. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

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Literary usage of Hydroxide

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

1. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1921)
"The calcium sulphate may be between 80-90 pc, magnesium hydroxide 2-5 pc, ... The formation of magnesium hydroxide is probably due to the interaction of the ..."

2. Principles of Inorganic Chemistry by Harry Clary Jones (1906)
"CHAPTER XV NEUTRALIZATION OF ACIDS AND BASES Ammonium hydroxide. ... A1(0H)3 Ferric hydroxide Fe(0H)3 This list of basic substances could be greatly ..."

3. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1895)
"It is customary in books on analytical chemistry to represent the precipitation of zinc hydroxide from solutions of its sulphate by means of potassium ..."

4. The Elements of Qualitative Chemical Analysis: With Special Consideration of by Julius Stieglitz (1911)
"Aluminium hydroxide is too weak an acid to form a stable aluminate with so weak a base as ammonium hydroxide, when the latter is used only in slight excess ..."

5. Standard Methods of Chemical Analysis: A Manual of Analytical Methods and by Wilfred Welday Scott (1922)
"Aluminum hydroxide is precipitated by acidifying the alkaline solution with ... The white gelatinous precipitate of aluminum hydroxide may be confirmed by ..."

6. The Chemical News and Journal of Industrial Science (1902)
"A standard solution of barium hydroxide was used instead of caustic soda, ... It was found later that the barium hydroxide possessed other advantages. ..."

7. Synthetic Inorganic Chemistry: A Course of Laboratory and Classroom Study by Arthur Alphonzo Blanchard, Joseph Warren Phelan (1922)
"What products would be formed if bromine were added to a solution of sodium hydroxide instead of ammonium hydroxide, if the solution were kept cold? ..."

8. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1912)
"Ceric hydroxide O(OH)4, a yellowish Although cerio hydroxide is more stable ... Cerous hydroxide is slowly oxidised to eerie hydroxide by atmospheric oxygen ..."

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