Definition of Ceric

1. Adjective. Of or relating to or containing cerium especially with valence 4.

Partainyms: Cerium

Definition of Ceric

1. Adjective. (chemistry) Containing cerium with valence four. ¹

2. Adjective. (chemistry) Relating to wax. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Ceric

1. containing cerium [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ceric

cereolysin
cereopsis
cereous
ceresin
ceresine
ceresines
ceresins
cereus
cereuses
cerevisiae
cerge
cerges
ceria
cerian
cerias
ceric (current term)
ceriferous
ceriman
cerin
cering
cerins
ceriopyrochlore
ceriopyrochlores
ceriph
ceriphs
cerise
cerises
cerite
cerites
cerium

Literary usage of Ceric

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 (1912)
"ceric hydroxide O(OH)4, a yellowish Although cerio hydroxide is more stable ... ceric chloride itself has not been isolated, but its additive compounds, ..."

2. A Treatise on Chemistry by Henry Enfield Roscoe, Carl Schorlemmer (1884)
"ceric sulphate forms double sulphates with the sulphates of the alkali-metals, ... ceric sulphate is decomposed by water with formation of basic salts, ..."

3. A Dictionary of Chemical Solubilities: Inorganic by Arthur Messinger Comey, Dorothy Anna Hahn (1921)
"Sol. in H2O with hissing and evolution of heat; sol. in ceric chloride. ... +H2O Insol. in H2O. (Brauner, B. 14. 1944.) ceric cobaltous fluoride ..."

4. Hand-book of Chemistry by Leopold Gmelin, Henry Watts (1871)
"ceric acid. Produced by the action of nitric acid on cork-wax, or by treating cerin with a little nitric acid of sp. gr. 1-35, whereupon the eerie acid ..."

5. A Dictionary of Chemistry and the Allied Branches of Other Sciences by Henry Watts (1870)
"Marignac did not obtain ceroso-ceric oxide of constant composition, but supposed it to have,forthe most part, the composition ..."

6. The Metals of the Rare Earths by James Frederick Spencer (1919)
"On evaporating an acid solution of ceric sulphate and ammonium sulphate two ceric ammonium sulphates are formed, the solution depositing first small yellow ..."

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