Word Meanings - BISMITE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Bismuth trioxide, or bismuth ocher.

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• OCHER; OCHRE
  A impure earthy ore of iron or a ferruginous clay, usually red or yellow , -- used as a pigment in making paints, etc. The name is also applied to clays of other colors. A metallic oxide occurring in earthy form; as, tungstic ocher or tungstite.
• OCHEROUS; OCHREOUS
  Of or pertaining to ocher; containing or resembling ocher; as, ocherous matter; ocherous soil.
• BISMUTHOUS
  Of, or containing, bismuth, when this element has its lower valence.
• OCHERY
  Ocherous.
• BISMUTHAL
  Containing bismuth.
• BISMUTH
  One of the elements; a metal of a reddish white color, crystallizing in rhombohedrons. It is somewhat harder than lead, and rather brittle; masses show broad cleavage surfaces when broken across. It melts at 507º Fahr., being easily fused in the
• BISMUTHIFEROUS
  Containing bismuth.
• BISMUTHYL
  Hydrous carbonate of bismuth, an earthy mineral of a dull white or yellowish color.
• BISMUTHINE; BISMUTHINITE
  Native bismuth sulphide; -- sometimes called bismuthite.
• BISMUTHIC
  Of or pertaining to bismuth; containing bismuth, when this element has its higher valence; as, bismuthic oxide.
• TRIOXIDE
  An oxide containing three atoms of oxygen; as, sulphur trioxide, SO3; -- formerly called tritoxide.
• PHACOCHERE
  The wart hog.
• URAN-OCHER; URAN-OCHRE
  A yellow, earthy incrustation, consisting essentially of the oxide of uranium, but more or less impure.
• TOCHER
  Dowry brought by a bride to her husband. Burns.
• PORTE-COCHERE
  A large doorway allowing vehicles to drive into or through a building. It is common to have the entrance door open upon the passage of the porte-cochère. Also, a porch over a driveway before an entrance door.