Definition of Oxysalt

1. n. A salt of an oxyacid, as a sulphate.

Definition of Oxysalt

1. Noun. (chemistry) A salt of an oxyacid. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Oxysalt

1. a salt of an oxyacid [n -S]

Medical Definition of Oxysalt

1. A salt of an oxyacid, as a sulphate. Origin: Oxy- + salt. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Oxysalt

oxypnictide
oxypnictides
oxypolygelatin
oxyproline
oxyprolines
oxypurine
oxypurinol
oxyquinoline
oxyquinolines
oxyradical
oxyradicals
oxyrhine
oxyrhyncha
oxyrrhodine
oxyrygmia
oxysalt (current term)
oxysalts
oxyselenide
oxyselenides
oxysome
oxysomes
oxysterol
oxysterols
oxysulfate
oxysulfates
oxysulfide
oxysulfides
oxysulphate
oxysulphates
oxysulphide

Literary usage of Oxysalt

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

1. Elements of Chemistry: For the Use of Colleges, Academies, and Schools by Victor Regnault (1853)
"... which enters into the constitution of an oxysalt. § 403. Nitrates.—Nearly all nitrates are soluble in water, a few sub-nitrates alone being insoluble. ..."

2. Transactions of the Seventh International Congress of Hygiene and Demography by Charles Edward Shelly (1892)
"This oxysalt being less soluble than the neutral salt, less lead is now contained in solution; a portion of that at first dissolved now forming part of the ..."

3. American Druggist (1887)
"Hot water is used to precipitate the bismuth salt in, as it hastens the conversion of the triiodide into the red oxysalt. Yet the water must not be too hot, ..."

4. A Compendium of the Course of Chemical Instruction in the Medical Department by Robert Hare (1836)
"... acid gas be transmitted throu^ a concentrated solution of an oxysalt, in which the acid and base bat* each a metallic radical, the hydrogen of the ..."

5. Synthetic Inorganic Chemistry: A Course of Laboratory and Classroom Study by Arthur Alphonzo Blanchard (1910)
"Mix a little sodium sulphate (or any oxysalt of sulphur) with twice its amount of sodium carbonate ; moisten the mixture^ so that some of it may be made to ..."

6. A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines by Andrew Ure (1858)
"Dissolve a salt consisting of an oxyde and an acid (an oxysalt) in a very small quantity of water, ... In this operation, the oxysalt is transformed into a ..."

7. Handbook of Metallurgy by Carl Schnabel (1907)
"... by passing sulphuretted hydrogen through a solution of a stannous oxysalt or stannous chloride. ..."

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