Definition of Molybdic

1. a. Of, pertaining to, or containing, molybdenum; specif., designating those compounds in which the element has a higher valence, as contrasted with molybdous compounds; as, molybdic oxide.

Definition of Molybdic

1. Adjective. (inorganic chemistry) Of or pertaining to molybdenum, especially describing compounds of molybdenum in which it has a valence of 6 ¹

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Definition of Molybdic

1. pertaining to a certain metallic element [adj]

Medical Definition of Molybdic

1. Of, pertaining to, or containing, molybdenum; specif, designating those compounds in which the element has a higher valence, as contrasted with molybdous compounds; as, molybdic oxide. Origin: Cf. F. Molybdique. See molybdena. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Molybdic

molybdeniferous
molybdenite
molybdenites
molybdenous
molybdenum
molybdenum-99
molybdenum-iron protein aldehyde oxidoreductase
molybdenum breakthrough
molybdenum cofactor
molybdenum disulfide
molybdenum disulphide
molybdenum steel
molybdenum target tube
molybdenums
molybdian
molybdic (current term)
molybdic acid
molybdite
molybdoenzyme
molybdoenzymes
molybdoferredoxin
molybdoflavoproteins
molybdofornacite
molybdomancy
molybdomenite
molybdophyllite
molybdopterin
molybdopterins
molybdous
molybdovanadate

Literary usage of Molybdic

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

1. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1894)
"... but also to an equal degree on the amount in which it is present. The reaction which ensues when molybdic anhydride is brought together ..."

2. Hand-book of Chemistry by Leopold Gmelin, Henry Watts (1856)
"The solution of molybdic acid in aqueous creara of tartar is digested with zinc, whereby the molybdic acid is reduced to molybdic oxide; ..."

3. Elements of Chemistry: Theoretical and Practical by William Andrew Miller (1873)
"No definite hydrate of molybdic acid is known. "When precipitated from its salts by the addition of an acid, it may be redissolved, if the acid be added in ..."

4. Elements of Chemistry: Theoretical and Practical by William Allen Miller (1860)
"The residue when well washed is the pure oxide, which has been reduced from molybdic acid by the hydrogen of the ammonia. It is of a dark brown colour, ..."

5. A System of Chemistry for the Use of Students of Medicine by Franklin Bache (1819)
"By washing the mass carefully with water, the sulphuric and nitric acids will be removed; so that nothing will remain but pure molybdic acid. II. ..."

6. A Dictionary of Chemistry and the Allied Branches of Other Sciences by Henry Watts (1871)
"oxidised by ignition in the air, or by treatment with nitric acid. Caustic potash- solution neither oxidises nor dissolves it. molybdic hydrate is obtained ..."

7. A System of Instruction in Quantitative Chemical Analysis by C. Remigius Fresenius, John Lloyd Bullock (1860)
"molybdic ACID. molybdic acid is converted, for the purpose of its quantitative ... The best way of effecting this is to introduce the molybdic acid, ..."

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