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Definition of Osmic

1. a. Pertaining to, derived from, or containing, osmium; specifically, designating those compounds in which it has a valence higher than in other lower compounds; as, osmic oxide.

Definition of Osmic

1. Adjective. (chemistry obsolete) Pertaining to, derived from, or containing, osmium; specifically, designating those compounds in which it has a higher valence. ¹

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Definition of Osmic

1. osmium [adj] - See also: osmium

Medical Definition of Osmic

1. Pertaining to, derived from, or containing, osmium; specifically, designating those compounds in which it has a valence higher than in other lower compounds; as, osmic oxide. Osmic acid. A white volatile crystalline substance, OsO4, the most stable and characteristic of the compounds of osmium. It has a burning taste, and gives off a vapor, which is a powerful irritant poison, violently attacking the eyes, and emitting a strong chlorinelike odour. Formerly improperly called osmic acid. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Osmic

Literary usage of Osmic

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

1. A Dictionary of Chemistry and the Allied Branches of Other Sciences by Henry Watts (1871)
"On dissolving the ignited mass in water, and evaporating, the osmic salt ... 239) : a concentrated aqueous solution of osmic tetroxide is mixed with caustic ..."

2. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1904)
"clearness in all the osmic acid material, and in one insect fixed in Flemming's fluid. In the typical osmic acid preparation they appear as irregularly ..."

3. Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society by Royal Microscopical Society, London (1882)
"C. Golgi,* in studying the peripheral and central nervous fibres of the spinal cord, exposes the nerves to the action of osmic acid, chromic salts, ..."

4. Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society by Cambridge Philosophical Society (1883)
"A few years ago Nussbaum' observed that such ferments as he could obtain stained rapidly with osmic acid. In consequence of this observation he made many ..."

5. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1878)
"Our present knowledge of the histology of nerves dates from 1872, when Ranvier, of Paris, made a re-investigation into, their structure, using osmic acid ..."

6. Select Methods in Chemical Analysis: (chiefly Inorganic) by William Crookes (1886)
"The nitrite may, therefore, be added with great advantage when solutions containing free osmic acid are to be evaporated, or even transferred from one ..."

7. The Journal of Physiology by Physiological Society (Great Britain). (1889)
"On irrigation with osmic acid -5 to 2 pc the granules swell up, ... If the specimen, after addition of osmic acid, has a small quantity of fluid only, ..."

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