Definition of Cacodylic

1. Adjective. Of or relating to cacodyl.

Category relationships: Chemical Science, Chemistry
Derivative terms: Cacodyl, Cacodyl
Partainyms: Cacodyl Group

Definition of Cacodylic

1. a. Of, pertaining to, or derived from, cacodyl.

Definition of Cacodylic

1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to cacodylic acid or its derivatives ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Cacodylic

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Cacodylic

1. Relating to cacodyl; denoting especially cacodylic acid. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cacodylic

cacodaemonical
cacodaemons
cacodemon
cacodemonic
cacodemonical
cacodemonomania
cacodemonomanias
cacodemons
cacodoxical
cacodoxy
cacodyl
cacodyl group
cacodyl oxide
cacodyl radical
cacodylate
cacodylic (current term)
cacodylic acid
cacodyls
cacodæmon
cacodæmonic
cacodæmons
cacoepies
cacoepist
cacoepistic
cacoepists
cacoepy
cacoethes
cacoethic
cacogastric
cacogenesis

Literary usage of Cacodylic

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

1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1887)
"730, 1886) have reinvestigated the action of cacodylic acid. Several investigators have stated that the acid, in spite of ita containing the element arsenic ..."

2. Hand-book of Chemistry by Leopold Gmelin, Henry Watts (1855)
"This process yields cacodylic acid pure, but in small quantity only, because the greater portion is volatilized during the passage of the oxygen gas through ..."

3. Laboratory Manual for the Detection of Poisons and Powerful Drugs by Wilhelm Autenrieth (1921)
"... and it might equal in delicacy the Marsh and Gutzeit tests. Detection of Arsenic in Organic Arsenic Compounds cacodylic Acid, ..."

4. Handbook of Organic Chemistry: For the Use of Students by William Gregory, J. Milton Sanders (1857)
"When left under water, it gradually disappears, being for the most part converted into cacodylic acid. The production of oxide of ..."

5. Review of American Chemical Research by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1906)
"cacodylic acid, cacodyl, and a black polymer resulted. ... Cacodyl and cacodylic acid were the products of this reaction. ..."

6. Introduction to the Study of Organic Chemistry by Adolf Pinner (1882)
"By the slow action of oxygen, cacodyl oxide and cacodylic acid are formed. ... Exposed to the air it does not fume, but oxidizes slowly to cacodylic acid, ..."

7. Fownes Manual of Chemistry, Theoretical and Practical: A New American from by George Fownes (1885)
"cacodylic acid is exceedingly stable : it is not affected by red fuming nitric acid, ... But by exposing cacodylic acid for a long time to a stream of ..."

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