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Definition of Ferrous
1. Adjective. Of or relating to or containing iron.
Definition of Ferrous
1. a. Pertaining to, or derived from, iron; -- especially used of compounds of iron in which the iron has its lower valence; as, ferrous sulphate.
Definition of Ferrous
1. Adjective. Of or containing iron. ¹
2. Adjective. (chemistry) Of compounds of iron in which it has a valence or oxidation number of 2. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Ferrous
1. pertaining to iron [adj]
Medical Definition of Ferrous
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Ferrous
Literary usage of Ferrous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Manual of Qualitative Chemical Analysis by C. Remigius Fresenius (1897)
"ferrous OXIDE is black; ferrous hydroxide is white, ami in the moist state absorbs
... Both ferrous oxide and ferrous hydroxide are readily dissolved by ..."
2. Standard Methods of Chemical Analysis: A Manual of Analytical Methods and by Wilfred Welday Scott (1922)
"Standard ferrous Sulphate. A. Reagent to be Used in Titration of Nitric Acid ...
ferrous sulphate to be used, should be made up as follows: 264.7 grains of ..."
3. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1879)
"THE velocity of the reaction between ferrous sulphate, potassium chlorate, and
sulphuric acid was investigated many years ago by JJ ..."
4. A Treatise on Chemistry by Henry Enfield Roscoe, Carl Schorlemmer (1884)
"369 Iron Monoxide, or ferrous Oxide, FeO, is obtained as ... If ferrous oxalate
is added to boiling caustic potash the monoxide is obtained as a black ..."
5. The Principles of Chemistry by Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleyev (1891)
"In any case, ferrous oxide is far more energetic than ferric oxide, so that if
ammonia be added to a solution containing a mixture of a ferrous and ferric ..."
6. Elements of Chemistry: Theoretical and Practical by William Allen Miller, Charles Edward Groves, Herbert McLeod (1878)
"The protoxide, FeO, which is the base of the green, or ferrous salts of iron
corresponding to ferrous chloride: 2. The sesquioxide, Fe2O3, which is the base ..."
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