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Definition of Binary compound
1. Noun. Chemical compound composed of only two elements.
Generic synonyms: Chemical Compound, Compound
Definition of Binary compound
1. Noun. (chemistry) A chemical compound composed of only two elements. ¹
2. Noun. (chemistry) A compound composed of an element and a radical (a group of atoms that behave as one piece). ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Binary compound
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Binary Compound
Literary usage of Binary compound
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Library of Original Sources: Ideas that Have Influenced Civilization, in edited by Oliver Joseph Thatcher (1915)
"A binary compound should always be specifically heavier than the mere mixture
... That water is a binary compound of hydrogen and oxygen, and the relative ..."
2. From Elements to Atoms: A History of Chemical Composition by Robert Siegfried (2002)
"A binary compound should always be specifically heavier than the mere mixture
... That water is a binary compound of hydrogen and oxygen, and the relative ..."
3. The New Calendar of Great Men: Biographies of the 558 Worthies of All Ages by Frederic Harrison (1892)
"... He arrived at the results that (1) water is a binary compound of hydrogen and
oxygen, and that the relative weights of the two elementary atoms are as 1 ..."
4. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1863)
"Thus, potassium and oxygen united to form potash (KO), which, in its turn, may
unite with another binary compound, as nitric acid (N05), to form nitrate of ..."
5. Organic Chemistry in Its Applications to Agriculture and Physiology by Justus Liebig, Lyon Playfair Playfair, John White Webster (1841)
"For example : Sulphuric acid, potash, alumina ; when one binary unites with
another binary compound, a binary compound of the second class is formed,— as, ..."
6. Elements of Chemistry: For the Use of Colleges, Academies, and Schools by Victor Regnault (1853)
"A binary compound, formed by a metal and a metalloid, or a salt formed by a
metallic oxide, being given, how can the nature of the binary compound, ..."
7. The Chemical News and Journal of Industrial Science (1864)
"... a binary compound, an hydrate, in fact. Positive chemistry arose from an
attentive study of the phenomena of combustion and the constitution of salts. ..."
8. Foundations of the Atomic Theory: Comprising Papers and Extracts by John by John Dalton, William Hyde Wollaston, Thomas Thomson (1893)
"4th. When four combinations are observed, we should expect one binary, two ternary,
and one quaternary, &c. 5th. A binary compound should ..."
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