2. Verb. (third-person singular of compound) ¹
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Definition of Compounds
1. compound [v] - See also: compound
Lexicographical Neighbors of Compounds
Literary usage of Compounds
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1910)
"From the above it is evident that Dr. Lederer experimented with compounds of
tungsten, similar to those described in my paper, with a view to their use in ..."
2. Principles of Chemistry by Joel Henry Hildebrand (1918)
"CHAPTER V TYPES OF CHEMICAL compounds Relation between Stability of compounds and
... On examining the known chemical compounds containing but two elements, ..."
3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1899)
"The attempt to interpret the double salts and halides, the compounds with water
of crystallization or hydration, the metal-ammonias, the peculiar compounds ..."
4. Outlines of Psychology by Wilhelm Max Wundt, Charles Hubbard Judd (1897)
"The second is the opinion that certain compounds, as, for example, ideas, ...
The truth is that compounds are only relatively independent units. ..."
5. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1862)
"It still remained to study the deportment of the phosphorus- bases with chlorine-
and bromine-compounds of simpler constitution. ..."
6. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"Tertiary nitro compounds may also be obtained by the oxidation of the ... 385):
The nitro compounds of the lower members of the paraffin scries cannot be ..."
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