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Word Meanings - PERSULPHATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A sulphate of the peroxide of any base.

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  • 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.

 

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