Word Meanings - PERSULPHATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A sulphate of the peroxide of any base.
Related words: (words related to PERSULPHATE)
- SULPHATE
A salt of sulphuric acid. - PEROXIDE
An oxide containing more oxygen than some other oxide of the same element. Formerly peroxides were regarded as the highest oxides. Cf. Per-, 2. - SUPEROXIDE
See PEROXIDE - HYPOSULPHATE
A salt of hyposulphuric acid. - BISULPHATE
A sulphate in which but half the hydrogen of the acid is replaced by a positive element or radical, thus making the proportion of the acid to the positive or basic portion twice what it is in the normal sulphates; an acid sulphate. - PERSULPHATE
A sulphate of the peroxide of any base. - HYPEROXIDE
A compound having a relatively large percentage of oxygen; a peroxide. - PYROSULPHATE
A salt of pyrosulphuric acid. - THIOSULPHATE
A salt of thiosulphuric acid; -- formerly called hyposulphite. Note: The sodium salt called in photography by the name sodium hyposulphite, being used as a solvent for the excess of unchanged silver chloride, bromide, and iodide on the sensitive - DISULPHATE
A salt of disulphuric or pyrosulphuric acid; a pyrosulphate. An acid salt of sulphuric acid, having only one equivalent of base to two of the acid. - SUPERSULPHATE
An acid sulphate. - HYDROSULPHATE
See HYDROSULPHURENT - SODIUM SULPHATE
A salt well known as a catharic under the name of Glauber's salt, which term is properly applied to the hydrate, Na2SO4.10H2O. - SUBSULPHATE
A sulphate with an excess of the base.