Word Meanings - BISMUTHIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to bismuth; containing bismuth, when this element has its higher valence; as, bismuthic oxide.

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• HIGHER-UP
  A superior officer or official; -- used chiefly in pl.
• 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.
• HIGHERING
  Rising higher; ascending. In ever highering eagle circles. Tennyson.
• 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:
• CONTAINMENT
  That which is contained; the extent; the substance. The containment of a rich man's estate. Fuller.
• ELEMENTALITY
  The condition of being composed of elements, or a thing so composed.
• VALENCE
  The degree of combining power of an atom as shown by the number of atoms of hydrogen (or of other monads, as chlorine, sodium, etc.) with which it will combine, or for which it can be substituted, or with which it can be compared; thus, an atom
• CONTAINANT
  A container.
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• ELEMENTALISM
  The theory that the heathen divinities originated in the personification of elemental powers.
• ELEMENTATION
  Instruction in the elements or first principles.
• ELEMENTOID
  Resembling an element.
• CONTAINABLE
  Capable of being contained or comprised. Boyle.
• BISMUTHOUS
  Of, or containing, bismuth, when this element has its lower valence.
• CONTAINER
  One who, or that which, contains.
• ELEMENTAR
  Elementary. Skelton.
• ELEMENTARINESS
  The state of being elementary; original simplicity; uncompounded state.
• 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
• HIGHER THOUGHT
  See BELOW
• SESQUIOXIDE
  An oxide containing three atoms of oxygen with two atoms (or radicals) of some other substance; thus, alumina, Al2O3 is a sesquioxide.
• TRANSELEMENT; TRANSELEMENTATE
  To change or transpose the elements of; to transubstantiate. Jer. Taylor.
• CARBOXIDE
  A compound of carbon and oxygen, as carbonyl, with some element or radical; as, potassium carboxide. Potassium carboxide, a grayish explosive crystalline compound, C6O6K, obtained by passing carbon monoxide over heated potassium.
• TETRAVALENCE
  The quality or state of being tetravalent; quadrivalence.
• PARADOXIDES
  A genus of large trilobites characteristic of the primordial formations.
• SELF-CONTAINED
  Having all the essential working parts connected by a bedplate or framework, or contained in a case, etc., so that mutual relations of the parts do not depend upon fastening outside of the machine itself. Self-contained steam engine.
• SUPEROXIDE
  See PEROXIDE
• TETROXIDE
  An oxide having four atoms of oxygen in the molecule; a quadroxide; as, osmium tetroxide, OsO.
• MULTIVALENCE
  Quality, state, or degree, of a multivalent element, atom, or radical.
• HYPEROXIDE
  A compound having a relatively large percentage of oxygen; a peroxide.
• PREVALENCE
  The quality or condition of being prevalent; superior strength, force, or influence; general existence, reception, or practice; wide extension; as, the prevalence of virtue, of a fashion, or of a disease; the prevalence of a rumor. The duke better