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Word Meanings - HYDROXYL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A compound radical, or unsaturated group, HO, consisting of one atom of hydrogen and one of oxygen. It is a characteristic part of the hydrates, the alcohols, the oxygen acids, etc.

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  • CHARACTERISTIC
    Pertaining to, or serving to constitute, the character; showing the character, or distinctive qualities or traits, of a person or thing; peculiar; distinctive. Characteristic clearness of temper. Macaulay.
  • HYDROGENIUM
    Hydrogen; -- called also in view of its supposed metallic nature. Graham.
  • OXYGENIZE
    To oxidize.
  • CONSISTENTLY
    In a consistent manner.
  • OXYGENATOR
    An oxidizer.
  • OXYGENIC
    Pertaining to, containing, or resembling, oxygen; producing oxygen.
  • COMPOUNDER
    A Jacobite who favored the restoration of James II, on condition of a general amnesty and of guarantees for the security of the civil and ecclesiastical constitution of the realm. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, compounds or mixes; as, a
  • CONSIST
    1. To stand firm; to be in a fixed or permanent state, as a body composed of parts in union or connection; to hold together; to be; to exist; to subsist; to be supported and maintained. He is before all things, and by him all things consist. Col.
  • COMPOUNDABLE
    That may be compounded.
  • CONSISTORIAN
    Pertaining to a Presbyterian consistory; -- a contemptuous term of 17th century controversy. You fall next on the consistorian schismatics; for so you call Presbyterians. Milton.
  • COMPOUND CONTROL
    A system of control in which a separate manipulation, as of a rudder, may be effected by either of two movements, in different directions, of a single lever, etc.
  • RADICALNESS
    Quality or state of being radical.
  • 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.
  • CONSISTENCE; CONSISTENCY
    1. The condition of standing or adhering together, or being fixed in union, as the parts of a body; existence; firmness; coherence; solidity. Water, being divided, maketh many circles, till it restore itself to the natural consistence. Bacon. We
  • OXYGENIUM
    The technical name of oxygen.
  • CONSISTORY
    The spiritual court of a diocesan bishop held before his chancellor or commissioner in his cathedral church or elsewhere. Hook. (more info) consistorium a place of assembly, the place where the emperor's council met, fr. consistere: cf.
  • HYDROGENIDE
    A binary compound containing hydrogen; a hydride. See Hydride.
  • UNSATURATION
    The quality or state of being unsaturated.
  • RADICALLY
    1. In a radical manner; at, or from, the origin or root; fundamentally; as, a scheme or system radically wrong or defective. 2. Without derivation; primitively; essentially. These great orbs thus radically bright. Prior.
  • DEOXYGENATE
    To deoxidize.
  • SPORADICAL
    Sporadic.
  • EQUIRADICAL
    Equally radical. Coleridge.
  • SUBGROUP
    A subdivision of a group, as of animals. Darwin.
  • DISOXYGENATE
    To deprive of oxygen; to deoxidize.
  • WENLOCK GROUP
    The middle subdivision of the Upper Silurian in Great Britain; -- so named from the typical locality in Shropshire.
  • AGGROUPMENT
    Arrangement in a group or in groups; grouping.
  • INCONSISTENTLY
    In an inconsistent manner.

 

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