cericadj.1
/ˈsɪərɪk/ Chemistry.
Of or belonging to cerium; applied to compounds in which cerium combines as a tetrad, as in ceric oxide, CeO2, ceric (or cerium) salts.
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1863 H. Watts Dict. Chem. I. 836 Ceric sulpide is not known in the free state, but is said to combine with other metallic sulphides.
1868 H. B. Jones & H. Watts Fownes's Man. Elem. Chem. (ed. 10) 385 The ceric compounds, in which it is apparently trivalent.
1879 H. Watts Dict. Chem., 3rd Supp. 421 Normal and basic ceric salts.
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cericadj.2
/ˈsɪərɪk/ Chemistry.
Chemically related to wax; as in ceric acid, a brownish diaphanous waxy mass obtained by treating cerin with nitric acid.
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retinyl1963
1838 T. Thomson Chem. Org. Bodies 1045 An acid..to which we may give the name of ceric acid.
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