Word Meanings - TETRABASIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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.

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• HAVENED
  Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
• HAVENER
  A harbor master.
• NEUTRALIZE
  To render inert or imperceptible the peculiar affinities of, as a chemical substance; to destroy the effect of; as, to neutralize an acid with a base. 3. To destroy the peculiar or opposite dispositions of; to reduce to a state of indifference
• HYDROGENIUM
  Hydrogen; -- called also in view of its supposed metallic nature. Graham.
• REPLACEMENT
  The removal of an edge or an angle by one or more planes. (more info) 1. The act of replacing.
• HAVELOCK
  A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
• HAVE
  haven, habben, AS. habben ; akin to OS. hebbian, D. hebben, OFries, hebba, OHG. hab, G. haben, Icel. hafa, Sw. hafva, Dan. have, Goth. haban, and prob. to L. habere, whence F. 1. To hold in possession or control; to own; as, he has a farm. 2.
• 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.
• 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.
• SILICIC
  Pertaining to, derived from, or resembling, silica; specifically, designating compounds of silicon; as, silicic acid. Silicic acid , an amorphous gelatinous substance, Si 4, very unstable and easily dried to silica, but forming many stable salts;
• HAVENAGE
  Harbor dues; port dues.
• QUADRIBASIC
  See TETRABASIC
• NORMAL
  According to a square or rule; perpendicular; forming a right angle. Specifically: Of or pertaining to a normal. (more info) square; prob. akin to noscere to know; cf. Gr. normal. See Known, and 1. According to an established norm, rule,
• HAVEN
  habe, Dan. havn, Icel. höfn, Sw. hamn; akin to E. have, and hence orig., a holder; or to heave ; or akin to AS. hæf sea, 1. A bay, recess, or inlet of the sea, or the mouth of a river, which affords anchorage and shelter for shipping; a harbor;
• HAVANA
  Of or pertaining to Havana, the capital of the island of Cuba; as, an Havana cigar; -- formerly sometimes written Havannah. -- n.
• CERTAINTY
  Clearness; freedom from ambiguity; lucidity. Of a certainty, certainly. (more info) 1. The quality, state, or condition, of being certain. The certainty of punishment is the truest security against crimes. Fisher Ames. 2. A fact or truth
• HAVERSIAN
  Pertaining to, or discovered by, Clopton Havers, an English physician of the seventeenth century. Haversian canals , the small canals through which the blood vessels ramify in bone.
• HYDROGENIDE
  A binary compound containing hydrogen; a hydride. See Hydride.
• HAVING
  Possession; goods; estate. I 'll lend you something; my having is not much. Shak.
• UNCAPABLE
  Incapable. "Uncapable of conviction." Locke.
• INCAPABLE
  Unqualified or disqualified, in a legal sense; as, a man under thirty-five years of age is incapable of holding the office of president of the United States; a person convicted on impeachment is thereby made incapable of holding an office of profit
• ASCERTAINMENT
  The act of ascertaining; a reducing to certainty; a finding out by investigation; discovery. The positive ascertainment of its limits. Burke.
• ASCERTAINABLE
  That may be ascertained. -- As`cer*tain"a*ble*ness, n. -- As`cer*tain"a*bly, adv.
• FLUOSILICIC
  Composed of, or derived from, silicon and fluorine. Fluosilicic acid, a double fluoride of hydrogen and silicon, H2F6Si, obtained in solution in water as a sour fuming liquid, and regarded as the type of the fluosilicates; -- called also
• MISBEHAVE
  To behave ill; to conduct one's self improperly; -- often used with a reciprocal pronoun.
• OVERCAPABLE
  Too capable. Overcapable of such pleasing errors. Hooker.
• INSHAVE
  A plane for shaving or dressing the concave or inside faces of barrel staves.
• UNCERTAINTY
  1. The quality or state of being uncertain. 2. That which is uncertain; something unknown. Our shepherd's case is every man's case that quits a moral certainty for an uncertainty. L'Estrange.
• SUBNORMAL
  That part of the axis of a curved line which is intercepted between the ordinate and the normal.