Definition of Oxyhydrogen

1. a. Of or pertaining to a mixture of oxygen and hydrogen; as, oxyhydrogen gas.

2. a. Of, pertaining to, or consisting of, a mixture of oxygen and hydrogen at over 5000° F.

Definition of Oxyhydrogen

1. Adjective. of, or using a mixture of hydrogen and oxygen ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Oxyhydrogen

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Oxyhydrogen

1. Of or pertaining to a mixture of oxygen and hydrogen; as, oxyhydrogen gas. Oxyhydrogen blowpipe. See Blowpipe. Oxyhydrogen microscope, a form of microscope arranged so as to use the light produced by burning lime or limestone under a current of oxyhydrogen gas. Origin: Oxy- + hydrogen. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Oxyhydrogen

oxygenous
oxygens
oxygeusia
oxygnathous
oxygon
oxygons
oxyhaemocyanin
oxyhaemoglobin
oxyhalide
oxyhalides
oxyheme
oxyhemochromogen
oxyhemoglobin
oxyhemoglobin oxidase
oxyhemoglobins
oxyhydrogen (current term)
oxyhydroxide
oxyhydroxides
oxyhæmoglobin
oxyimino
oxyiodide
oxykrinin
oxyl
oxylinkage
oxylinkages
oxylipin
oxylipins
oxylith
oxylium
oxylium ion

Literary usage of Oxyhydrogen

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

1. Methods of Gas Analysis by Walther Hempel (1902)
"THE oxyhydrogen GAS GENERATOR The author has found that in the evolution of oxyhydrogen gas there is always formed some ozone, which upon being passed ..."

2. An Introduction to the Study of Chemistry by Ira Remsen (1907)
"(T) Hold in the flame of the oxyhydrogen blowpipe successively a piece of iron wire, a piece of a steel watch- spring, a piece of copper wire, ..."

3. Spectrum Analysis in Its Application to Terrestrial Substances, and the by Heinrich Schellen (1872)
"THE oxyhydrogen FLAME. In the Bunsen burner the combustion of coal gas ensues slowly and incompletely: slowly, because the oxyhydrogen flame, ..."

4. A College Text-book of Chemistry by Ira Remsen (1901)
"Platinum vessels are made by melting the platinum by means of the oxyhydrogen flame. oxyhydrogen Light.—When the oxyhydrogen flame is allowed to play ..."

5. First Principles of Chemistry by Benjamin Silliman (1859)
"The oxyhydrogen blowpipe of Hare enables th« chemist to use safely the intense heat ... The flame of the oxyhydrogen blowpipe differs from the flame of ..."

6. Inorganic Chemistry by Ira Remsen (1898)
"oxyhydrogen Light.—When the oxyhydrogen flame is allowed to play upon some substance which it cannot melt or bum, the substance becomes heated so high that ..."

7. Gas Analysis by Louis Munroe Dennis (1913)
"oxyhydrogen gas may conveniently be generated in the apparatus of Hempel (Fig. 71), which is patterned after that described by Bunsen.1 It consists of a ..."

8. Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the by Arnold James Cooley (1892)
"oxyhydrogen BLOWPIPE. See BLOWPIPE. Deville and Debray ('Ann. Ch. Phys.' [3], Ivi, 385) employ the oxyhydrogen blowpipe in the following manner for ..."

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