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Definition of Metathetical
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Metathetical
Literary usage of Metathetical
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Advanced Course of Instruction in Chemical Principles by Arthur Amos Noyes, Miles Standish Sherrill (1922)
"Examples of metathetical gas reactions whose equilibrium has been ... 8 below,
is that the equilibrium-constant of any metathetical gas reaction can be ..."
2. Chemistry in the High School by Eugene Paul Schoch (1914)
"For this reason the material is arranged here so as to present at first only
substances which undergo mainly metathetical reactions (and hydration), ..."
3. The School of Mines Quarterly by Columbia University School of Chemistry (1884)
"metathetical equations demonstrate the interchange of elements or of radicals,
... metathetical equations—or, as they are also called, equations of ..."
4. The School of Mines Quarterly by Columbia University School of Chemistry (1884)
"Three kinds of chemical equations may be distinguished : synthetical, analytical
and metathetical. Synthetical equations are those representing the union of ..."
5. A Course of Instruction in the Qualitative Chemical Analysis of Inorganic by Arthur Amos Noyes (1920)
"Thus, the metathetical equivalent of nitric acid is 1 ... In this book the term
equivalent will always be used to denote the metathetical equivalent. ..."
6. A Course of Instruction in the Qualitativ [!] Chemical Analysis of Inorganic by Arthur Amos Noyes (1914)
"Thus the metathetical equivalent of nitric acid is ... In this book the term
equivalent will always be used to denote the metathetical equivalent. ..."
7. The General Principles of Physical Science: An Introduction to the Study of by Arthur Amos Noyes (1902)
"Since hydrogen is the element which always undergoes replacement in the important
metathetical reactions in which acids or bases take part, and since it is ..."
8. The General Principles of Physical Science: An Introduction to the Study of by Arthur Amos Noyes (1902)
"Since hydrogen is the element which always undergoes replacement in the important
metathetical reactions in which acids or bases take part, and since it is ..."
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