Definition of Hydroperoxide

1. Noun. (chemistry) any mono-substituted derivative of hydrogen peroxide - ROOH ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Hydroperoxide

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Hydroperoxide

1. Hydrogen peroxide is produced by vertebrate phagocytes and is used in bacterial killing (the myeloperoxidase halide system). (05 May 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hydroperoxide

hydropathic
hydropathies
hydropathist
hydropathists
hydropaths
hydropathy
hydropathy plot
hydropenia
hydropenic
hydropericarditis
hydropericardium
hydroperiod
hydroperiods
hydroperitoneum
hydroperoxidases
hydroperoxide
hydroperoxide dehydratase
hydroperoxide lyase
hydroperoxides
hydroperoxy
hydroperoxyl
hydroperoxyls
hydroperoxys
hydrophane
hydrophanes
hydrophanous
hydrophid
hydrophid venoms
hydrophidae
hydrophids

Literary usage of Hydroperoxide

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 (1901)
"quadrivalent oxygen in its molecule, as in the suggested formula ^O=O, appears to be excluded.1 H/ But although hydroperoxide may not contain quadrivalent ..."

2. 2000 Emergency Response Guidebook: A Guidebook for First Responders During edited by Barry Leonard (2000)
"... benzene hydroperoxide 2092 147 tert-Butyl hydroperoxide, not more than 80% in Di-tert-butyl peroxide and/or solvent 2093 147 tert-Butyl hydroperoxide ..."

3. Investigations on the Theory of the Photographic Process by Samuel Edward Sheppard, Charles Edward Kenneth Mees (1907)
"The interaction of hydroperoxide and silver oxide has been investigated in ... They consider that hydroperoxide and silver oxide react according to the ..."

4. A Synopsis of a Course of Lectures in General Chemistry Put in the Form of by Samuel Lawrence Bigelow (1905)
"Is the manganese dioxide altered by the hydroperoxide. ... What precautions shoud be adopted if solutions of hydroperoxide are to be kept for a length of ..."

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