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Word Meanings - AMMONIUM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A compound radical, NH4, having the chemical relations of a strongly basic element like the alkali metals.

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  • ALKALI WASTE
    Waste material from the manufacture of alkali; specif., soda waste.
  • HAVENED
    Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
  • RELATIONSHIP
    The state of being related by kindred, affinity, or other alliance. Mason.
  • ALKALINITY
    The quality which constitutes an alkali; alkaline property. Thomson.
  • HAVENER
    A harbor master.
  • ELEMENTAL
    1. Pertaining to the elements, first principles, and primary ingredients, or to the four supposed elements of the material world; as, elemental air. "Elemental strife." Pope. 2. Pertaining to rudiments or first principles; rudimentary; elementary.
  • BASICITY
    The quality or state of being a base. The power of an acid to unite with one or more atoms or equivalents of a base, as indicated by the number of replaceable hydrogen atoms contained in the acid.
  • ELEMENT
    1. One of the simplest or essential parts or principles of which anything consists, or upon which the constitution or fundamental powers of anything are based. 2. One of the ultimate, undecomposable constituents of any kind of matter. Specifically:
  • HAVELOCK
    A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
  • COMPOUNDER
    A Jacobite who favored the restoration of James II, on condition of a general amnesty and of guarantees for the security of the civil and ecclesiastical constitution of the realm. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, compounds or mixes; as, a
  • COMPOUNDABLE
    That may be compounded.
  • COMPOUND CONTROL
    A system of control in which a separate manipulation, as of a rudder, may be effected by either of two movements, in different directions, of a single lever, etc.
  • RADICALNESS
    Quality or state of being radical.
  • BASIC PROCESS
    A Bessemer or open-hearth steel-making process in which a lining that is basic, or not siliceous, is used, and additions of basic material are made to the molten charge during treatment. Opposed to acid process, above. Called also Thomas process.
  • HAVE
    haven, habben, AS. habben ; akin to OS. hebbian, D. hebben, OFries, hebba, OHG. hab, G. haben, Icel. hafa, Sw. hafva, Dan. have, Goth. haban, and prob. to L. habere, whence F. 1. To hold in possession or control; to own; as, he has a farm. 2.
  • ELEMENTALITY
    The condition of being composed of elements, or a thing so composed.
  • ALKALIZATE
    Alkaline. Boyle.
  • HAVENAGE
    Harbor dues; port dues.
  • HAVEN
    habe, Dan. havn, Icel. höfn, Sw. hamn; akin to E. have, and hence orig., a holder; or to heave ; or akin to AS. hæf sea, 1. A bay, recess, or inlet of the sea, or the mouth of a river, which affords anchorage and shelter for shipping; a harbor;
  • HAVANA
    Of or pertaining to Havana, the capital of the island of Cuba; as, an Havana cigar; -- formerly sometimes written Havannah. -- n.
  • POLYBASIC
    Capable of neutralizing, or of combining with, several molecules of a monacid base; having several hydrogen atoms capable of being replaced by basic radicals; -- said of certain acids; as, sulphuric acid is polybasic.
  • SPORADICAL
    Sporadic.
  • IATROCHEMICAL
    Of or pertaining to iatrochemistry, or to the iatrochemists.
  • EQUIRADICAL
    Equally radical. Coleridge.
  • MISBEHAVE
    To behave ill; to conduct one's self improperly; -- often used with a reciprocal pronoun.
  • INSHAVE
    A plane for shaving or dressing the concave or inside faces of barrel staves.
  • SESQUIBASIC
    Containing, or acting as, a base in the proportions of a sesqui compound.

 

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