|
|
Definition of Hydroxylamine
1. n. A nitrogenous, organic base, NH2.OH, resembling ammonia, and produced by a modified reduction of nitric acid. It is usually obtained as a volatile, unstable solution in water. It acts as a strong reducing agent.
Definition of Hydroxylamine
1. Noun. (inorganic compound) An explosive inorganic derivative of ammonia, NH2OH, used as a reducing agent, and in organic synthesis. ¹
2. Noun. (organic chemistry) Any organic derivative of this compound. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Hydroxylamine
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Hydroxylamine
1.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hydroxylamine
Literary usage of Hydroxylamine
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Chemical Solubilities: Inorganic by Arthur Messinger Comey, Dorothy Anna Hahn (1921)
"1 g. of aqueous solution contains at: 0° 10° 0.012 0.015g. hydroxylamine 20° 30°
0.019 0.027 ... hydroxylamine phosphite, Sol. in H2O and absolute alcohol, ..."
2. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1879)
"Under the conditions that we have used for the reaction of acetate with BDC and
hydroxylamine, ie, 0.1 M NH2OH, Table V. Effect of Acetonitrile ..."
3. A Treatise on Chemistry by Henry Enfield Roscoe, John Cannell Cain, Carl Schorlemmer (1913)
"195 hydroxylamine, NH2OH, the preparation of which has already been described (Vol.
I., p. 521), forms salts with acids which are analogous to those of ..."
4. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh by Royal Society of Edinburgh (1900)
"To this group of atoms they attribute the energy of living protoplasm, and state,
in support of this, that hydroxylamine, which is said to have a strong ..."
5. Fownes' Manual of Chemistry, Theoretical and Practical by George Fownes (1878)
"hydroxylamine is also formed by the action of hydrogen (evolved as above) ...
Solutions of hydroxylamine may, however, be obtained by decomposing the salts ..."
Other Resources:
