anhydride : Idioms & Phrases

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acetic anhydride

  • noun a compound that is needed in order to refine opium into heroin
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acid anhydrides

  • noun organic compounds that react with water to form an acid
    acid anhydrides.
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acyl anhydrides

  • noun organic compounds that react with water to form an acid
    acid anhydrides.
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arsenous anhydride

  • noun a white powdered poisonous trioxide of arsenic; used in manufacturing glass and as a pesticide (rat poison) and weed killer
    arsenous oxide; white arsenic; arsenic; ratsbane; arsenic trioxide.
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Chromic anhydride

  • a brilliant red crystalline substance, CrO3, regarded as the anhydride of chromic acid. It is one of the most powerful oxidizers known.
Webster 1913

Nitric anhydride

  • a white crystalline oxide of nitrogen (N2O5), called nitric pentoxide, and regarded as the anhydride of nitric acid.
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phthalic anhydride

  • noun a white cyclic anhydride
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Sulphuric anhydride

  • sulphur trioxide. See under Sulphur.
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Sulphurous anhydride

  • (Chem.), sulphur dioxide. See under Sulphur.
Webster 1913