- A particular compound - Acidic compound - Chemical compound - Common organic compound - Organic compound - An ethereal salt, or compound ether, consisting of an
organic radical united with the residue of any oxygen acid, organic or
inorganic; thus the natural fats are esters of glycerin and the fatty
acids, oleic, etc.
- Chemical compound - Laughing gas, nitrous ... - Oxygen compound - Rust will make beast die, perhaps - A binary compound of oxygen with an atom or radical, or a
compound which is regarded as binary; as, iron oxide, ethyl oxide,
nitrogen oxide, etc.
- Combustible - Like dynamite - Mine is highly unpredictable - Driving or bursting out with violence and noise; causing
explosion; as, the explosive force of gunpowder. - An explosive agent; a compound or mixture susceptible of
a rapid chemical reaction, as gunpowder, or nitro-glycerine. - A sound produced by an explosive impulse of the breath;
(Phonetics) one of consonants p, b, t, d, k, g, which are sounded with
a sort of explosive power of voice. [See Guide to Pronunciation, Ã
155-7, 184.]
- Existence in two distinct forms - Difference of form between members of the same species,
as when a plant has two kinds of flowers, both hermaphrodite (as in the
partridge berry), or when there are two forms of one or both sexes of
the same species of butterfly. - Crystallization in two independent forms of the same
chemical compound, as of calcium carbonate as calcite and aragonite.
- An instrument for measuring the voltaic electricity
passing through it, by its effect in decomposing water or some other
chemical compound acting as an electrolyte.