Definition of Tetroxid

1. a type of oxide [n -S] - See also: oxide

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tetroxid

tetrofosmin
tetrol
tetrolate
tetrolic
tetrolic acid
tetrols
tetromino
tetrominoes
tetronal
tetronals
tetrone
tetrones
tetrose
tetroses
tetrotus
tetroxid (current term)
tetroxide
tetroxides
tetroxids
tetryl
tetrylene
tetrylenes
tetryls
tetrytol
tets
tetter
tettered
tettering
tetterous
tetters

Literary usage of Tetroxid

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

1. The Medical student's manual of chemistry by Rudolph August Witthaus (1890)
"It is a dark indigo-blue liquid, which, boiling at about 0° (32° F.), is partly decomposed. It solidifies at - 82° (- 115°.6 F.). Nitrogen tetroxid. ..."

2. The Medical Student's Manual of Chemistry by Rudolph August Witthaus (1893)
"... N,Os— 76— Is prepared 'by the direct union of nitrogen dioxid and oxygen at low temperatures, or by decomposing liquefied nitrogen tetroxid with a small ..."

3. Elementary Chemistry for High School and Academies by Albert Llewellyn Arey (1899)
"Nitrogen tetroxid or Nitrogen Peroxid, N02. — The reddish brown gas noticed in Experiment 57 is nitrogen per- oxid. It has a disagreeable odor and is ..."

4. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1900)
"Ruthenium tetroxid is, however, far less stable 'than the corresponding osmium oxid, for it decomposes slowly at ordinary temperature, and explodes with ..."

5. Inorganic Chemistry: With the Elements of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry by John Iredelle Dillard Hinds (1908)
"It oxidizes readily to the tetroxid, and gives, with chlorin, VOCI,. ... Vanadium tetroxid unites with water in various proportions. ..."

6. Inorganic Chemistry: With the Elements of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry by John Iredelle Dillard Hinds (1905)
"Nitrogen tetroxid is formed: 1. By union of nitrogen dioxid with oxygen ... Nitrogen tetroxid is a colorless liquid without a very definite boiling- or ..."

7. Chemistry: An Elementary Text-book by William Conger Morgan, James Alexander Lyman (1911)
"Nitrogen tetroxid is a strong oxidizing agent, readily giving up half of ... The dioxid unites with oxygen from the atmosphere to form the tetroxid again. ..."

8. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1900)
"In a recent similar explosion in my own laboratory, occasioned by the contact of a little alcohol with ruthenium tetroxid, ..."

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