单词 | red oxide of iron, mercury, zinc, etc |
释义 | > as lemmasred oxide of iron, mercury, zinc, etc. 17. Chemistry. In the names of oxides, salts, etc., of a red colour, as red oxide of iron, mercury, zinc, etc., red sulphate of iron. Cf. red prussiate n. at Compounds 1e(e)(ii). Now chiefly historical. ΚΠ 1789 R. Kerr tr. A. Lavoisier Elements Chem. ii. 187 Red oxyd of mercury. 1800 tr. E. J. B. Bouillon-Lagrange Man. Course Chem. II. 86 Red sulphate of iron..is precipitated black by the gallic acid. 1866 H. E. Roscoe Lessons Elem. Chem. xxi. 186 The chief ores of zinc are the sulphide or blende, the carbonate or calamine, and the red oxide. 1871 J. Ruskin Fors Clavigera I. iv. 8 I have a piece of red oxide of copper..which grieves me poignantly by losing its colour. 1922 T. M. Lowry Inorg. Chem. xliv. 885 Mercuric oxide, HgO, also known as red oxide of mercury or red precipitate, is formed on heating mercury at a temperature slightly below its boiling-point for several weeks in a glass vessel containing air. 1940 G. H. J. Adlam & L. S. Price Higher School Certificate Inorg. Chem. (ed. 2) lii. 530 Trimanganic tetroxide, Mn3O4, also called red manganese oxide or mangano-manganic oxide, appears to have a constitution represented by MnO.Mn2O3. 1971 Sci. Amer. May 18/3 Some of the oxides, such as the red oxide used in antifouling paint for ship bottoms may be potentially hazardous. 1983 New Scientist (BNC) 24 Mar. Oxygen gas fascinated Priestley. He produced it by heating red mercuric oxide with a 12 inch diameter burning glass. 1991 A. Enright Portable Virgin (1992) 104 He mentioned glasswort, the plant from which potash is made; the red oxide of lead, the black oxide of manganese. < as lemmas |
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