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Word Meanings - PLUMBIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of, pertaining to, resembling, or containing, lead; -- used specifically to designate those compounds in which it has a higher valence as contrasted with plumbous compounds; as, plumbic oxide.

Related words: (words related to PLUMBIC)

  • DESIGNATE
    Designated; appointed; chosen. Sir G. Buck.
  • HIGHER-UP
    A superior officer or official; -- used chiefly in pl.
  • HIGHERING
    Rising higher; ascending. In ever highering eagle circles. Tennyson.
  • CONTAINMENT
    That which is contained; the extent; the substance. The containment of a rich man's estate. Fuller.
  • SPECIFICALLY
    In a specific manner.
  • THOSE
    The plural of that. See That.
  • WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
    Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
  • 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
  • CONTRAST
    To stand in opposition; to exhibit difference, unlikeness, or opposition of qualities. The joints which divide the sandstone contrast finely with the divisional planes which separate the basalt into pillars. Lyell.
  • CONTAINANT
    A container.
  • WHICH
    the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
  • RESEMBLINGLY
    So as to resemble; with resemblance or likeness.
  • 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
  • RESEMBLANT
    Having or exhibiting resemblance; resembling. Gower.
  • CONTAINABLE
    Capable of being contained or comprised. Boyle.
  • PLUMBOUS
    Of, pertaining to, or containing, lead; -- used specifically to designate those compounds in which it has a lower valence as contrasted with plumbic compounds.
  • CONTAINER
    One who, or that which, contains.
  • PLUMBIC
    Of, pertaining to, resembling, or containing, lead; -- used specifically to designate those compounds in which it has a higher valence as contrasted with plumbous compounds; as, plumbic oxide.
  • CONTRASTIMULANT
    Counteracting the effects of stimulants; relating to a course of medical treatment based on a theory of contrastimulants. -- n.
  • RESEMBLE
    sembler to seem, resemble, fr. L. similare, simulare, to imitate, fr. 1. To be like or similar to; to bear the similitude of, either in appearance or qualities; as, these brothers resemble each other. We will resemble you in that. Shak.
  • SPATHOSE
    See SPATHIC
  • SESQUIOXIDE
    An oxide containing three atoms of oxygen with two atoms (or radicals) of some other substance; thus, alumina, Al2O3 is a sesquioxide.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • PARADOXIDES
    A genus of large trilobites characteristic of the primordial formations.
  • 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.

 

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