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Definition of Mercurous
1. Adjective. Of or containing mercury.
Category relationships: Chemical Science, Chemistry
Partainyms: Mercury, Mercury
Derivative terms: Mercury, Mercury
Definition of Mercurous
1. a. Of, pertaining to, or derived from, mercury; containing mercury; -- said of those compounds of mercury in which it is present in its highest proportion.
Definition of Mercurous
1. Adjective. (chemistry) Pertaining to or derived from mercury. ¹
2. Adjective. (chemistry) Of a compound, containing mercury with an oxidation number of 1. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Mercurous
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Medical Definition of Mercurous
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Mercurous
Literary usage of Mercurous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. American Druggist (1888)
"THE exact color of pure mercurous iodide has long been known not to be exactly
like that under which the officinal salt presente itself in the market. ..."
2. Manual of Qualitative Chemical Analysis by C. Remigius Fresenius (1897)
"It dissolves in cold, dilute nitric acid to mercurous nitrate, and in the hot,
... mercurous chloride and mercurous bromide volatilize unaltered. ..."
3. Hand-book of Chemistry by Leopold Gmelin, Henry Watts (1852)
"Zinc, cadmium, lead, copper, and bismuth, immersed in solution of mercurous
nitrate, throw down the whole of the mercury in 24 hours; the other metals leave ..."
4. Qualitative Chemical Analysis: A Guide in the Practical Study of Chemistry by Albert Benjamin Prescott, Otis Coe Johnson, Silas Hamilton Douglas (1892)
"Solutions of mercurous and mercuric salts redden litmus. ... mercurous compounds,
of ordinary occurrence, are insoluble in water, except the normal nitrate ..."
5. Standard methods of chemical analysis: A Manual of Analytical Methods and by Wilfred Welday Scott (1917)
"Precipitation of Tungsten as mercurous Tungstate. Berzelius' Process1 The water
extract of the sodium carbonate fusion is concentrated to 50 to 100 cc., ..."
6. Quantitative Chemical Analysis by C. Remigius Fresenius (1903)
"mercurous oxide and mercurous salts may generally be dissolved by means of dilute
... If it is impracticable to produce a solution of the mercurous compound ..."
7. Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society by Cambridge Philosophical Society (1904)
"Tk white mercurous sulphate when exposed to sunlight turns at fin light brown,
... This change all occurs when dry mercurous sulphate is exposed to light. ..."
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