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Definition of Dioxides
1. dioxide [n] - See also: dioxide
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dioxides
Literary usage of Dioxides
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Mineralogy: An Introduction to the Scientific Study of Minerals by Henry Alexander Miers (1902)
"... SECTION X THE dioxides THE CASSITERITE GROUP Cassiterite. — Oxide of tin;
Sn02; Sn=78-6, Or=21-4. ..."
2. A Pocket Handbook of Minerals Designed for Use in the Field Or Class-room by Gurdon Montague Butler (1908)
"Members. — Cassiterite, Rutile. Composition. — dioxides. Crystallization.
— Tetragonal. Additional. — Both are too hard to be scratched with a knife, ..."
3. A Dictionary of Chemistry and the Allied Branches of Other Sciences by Henry Watts (1871)
"In the same group of acid oxides may also be included the dioxides of certain
semimetallic elements, namely silicic oxide or anhydride SiO2, ..."
4. Elementary Chemistry by Matthew Moncrieff Pattison Muir, Charles Slater (1887)
"The dioxides, with the exception of CO2, are solids, insoluble in water, ...
These hydrated dioxides are soluble in acids, and from these solutions salts of ..."
5. Elements of chemistry: theoretical and practical by William Allen Miller (1868)
"Of these dioxides some, as those of potassium and sodium, are decomposed with
evolution of oxygen when thrown into water ; baric dioxide forms the hydrate ..."
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