Word Meanings - AMINE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One of a class of strongly basic substances derived from ammonia by replacement of one or more hydrogen atoms by a basic atom or radical.

Related words: (words related to AMINE)

• CLASSIFIC
  Characterizing a class or classes; relating to classification.
• CLASSIFICATORY
  Pertaining to classification; admitting of classification. "A classificatory system." Earle.
• CLASSICISM
  A classic idiom or expression; a classicalism. C. Kingsley.
• HYDROGENIUM
  Hydrogen; -- called also in view of its supposed metallic nature. Graham.
• DERIVE
  To flow; to have origin; to descend; to proceed; to be deduced. Shak. Power from heaven Derives, and monarchs rule by gods appointed. Prior.
• CLASSIS
  An ecclesiastical body or judicat (more info) 1. A class or order; sort; kind. His opinion of that classis of men. Clarendon.
• REPLACEMENT
  The removal of an edge or an angle by one or more planes. (more info) 1. The act of replacing.
• BASICITY
  The quality or state of being a base. The power of an acid to unite with one or more atoms or equivalents of a base, as indicated by the number of replaceable hydrogen atoms contained in the acid.
• AMMONIATED
  Combined or impregnated with ammonia.
• CLASSMATE
  One who is in the same class with another, as at school or college.
• RADICALNESS
  Quality or state of being radical.
• BASIC PROCESS
  A Bessemer or open-hearth steel-making process in which a lining that is basic, or not siliceous, is used, and additions of basic material are made to the molten charge during treatment. Opposed to acid process, above. Called also Thomas process.
• HYDROGEN
  A gaseous element, colorless, tasteless, and odorless, the lightest known substance, being fourteen and a half times lighter than air , and over eleven thousand times lighter than water. It is very abundant, being an ingredient of water and of
• HYDROGENATE
  To hydrogenize.
• RADICAL
  One who advocates radical changes in government or social institutions, especially such changes as are intended to level class inequalities; -- opposed to conservative. In politics they were, to use phrase of their own time. "Root-and-Branch men,"
• HYDROGENIDE
  A binary compound containing hydrogen; a hydride. See Hydride.
• DERIVATIONAL
  Relating to derivation. Earle.
• CLASSIC
  1. A work of acknowledged excellence and authrity, or its author; -- originally used of Greek and Latin works or authors, but now applied to authors and works of a like character in any language. In is once raised him to the rank of a legitimate
• CLASSICALITY; CLASSICALNESS
  The quality of being classical.
• CLASSIFY
  To distribute into classes; to arrange according to a system; to arrnge in sets according to some method founded on common properties or characters. Syn. -- To arrange; distibute; rank.
• POLYBASIC
  Capable of neutralizing, or of combining with, several molecules of a monacid base; having several hydrogen atoms capable of being replaced by basic radicals; -- said of certain acids; as, sulphuric acid is polybasic.
• DERIVATIVE
  Obtained by derivation; derived; not radical, original, or fundamental; originating, deduced, or formed from something else; secondary; as, a derivative conveyance; a derivative word. Derivative circulation, a modification of the circulation found
• SPORADICAL
  Sporadic.
• EQUIRADICAL
  Equally radical. Coleridge.
• SESQUIBASIC
  Containing, or acting as, a base in the proportions of a sesqui compound.
• MISDERIVE
  1. To turn or divert improperly; to misdirect. Bp. Hall. 2. To derive erroneously.
• TETRABASIC
  Capable of neutralizing four molecules of a monacid base; having four hydrogen atoms capable of replacement by bases; quadribasic; -- said of certain acids; thus, normal silicic acid, Si 4, is a tetrabasic acid.
• SECOND-CLASS
  Of the rank or degree below the best highest; inferior; second- rate; as, a second-class house; a second-class passage.