Advertisement

Advertisement

acid anhydride

noun

  1. another name for anhydride

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


Discover More

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

It is distinguished from the other members of the series by certain characteristic properties; for example, it shows an aldehydic character in reducing silver salts to metallic silver, and it does not form an acid chloride or an acid anhydride.

Read more on Project Gutenberg

A sample was analysed and found to contain a deadly poison, arsenic acid anhydride.

The metallic oxide combines with this excess of acid anhydride, forming a mixed salt of metaboric acid.

Read more on Project Gutenberg

The reason that metallic oxides dissolve in borax is that borax contains an excess of acid anhydride, as can be more easily seen if its formula is written 2NaBO2 + B2O3.

Read more on Project Gutenberg

To understand the reaction which occurs, it must be remembered that a volatile acid anhydride is expelled from its salts when heated with an anhydride which is not volatile.

Read more on Project Gutenberg

Advertisement

Advertisement

Advertisement

Advertisement


acidacidanthera