Definition of Hyponitrous acid

1. Noun. An explosive white crystalline weak acid (H2N2O2).

Generic synonyms: Acid

Definition of Hyponitrous acid

1. Noun. (inorganic compound) The unstable compound HNO ¹

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Hyponitrous Acid

hyponasty
hyponathemia
hyponathemias
hyponatraemia
hyponatraemias
hyponatremia
hyponatremias
hyponatræmia
hyponea
hyponeas
hyponeocytosis
hyponeuston
hyponitrite
hyponitrites
hyponitrous
hyponitrous acid (current term)
hyponoia
hyponoias
hyponutrition
hyponychia
hyponychial
hyponychium
hyponychon
hyponym
hyponymic
hyponymically
hyponymies
hyponymous
hyponyms
hyponymy

Literary usage of Hyponitrous acid

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Compendium of the Course of Chemical Instruction in the Medical Department by Robert Hare (1836)
"Of hyponitrous acid. This acid was isolated in the following manner by Du- long. Having subjected a mixture of four volumes of nitric oxide with one of ..."

2. Elements of Chemistry: Including the Most Recent Discoveries and by Robert Kane (1851)
"But late researches have shown that it does produce true salts, and that even many saline compounds which had been supposed to be salts of hyponitrous acid ..."

3. The Principles of Inorganic Chemistry by Wilhelm Ostwald (1904)
"hyponitrous acid. — By suitably regulating the reduction of the nitrates, a further amount of oxygen can be removed from them, ..."

4. Elements of Chemistry: Including the Recent Discoveries and Doctrines of the by Edward Turner, Franklin Bache (1830)
"Nitric acid is formed when the solution is exposed to the air or oxygen gas, but not otherwise. hyponitrous acid. On adding an excess of ..."

5. Treatise on General and Industrial Inorganic Chemistry by Ettore Molinari (1912)
"... 2 mois. of hyponitrous acid NO.H correspond. Nitric Oxide, NO, which has no known corresponding acid. Nitrogen Trioxide or Nitrous Anhydride, ..."

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