acid anhydride
Britishnoun
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Like most of the oxides of the non-metallic elements, carbon dioxide is an acid anhydride.
From An Elementary Study of Chemistry by McPherson, William
The metallic oxide combines with this excess of acid anhydride, forming a mixed salt of metaboric acid.
From An Elementary Study of Chemistry by McPherson, William
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.
From An Elementary Study of Chemistry by McPherson, William
By allowing phosphorus oxychloride to interact with phenolsulphonic acid, he obtained a well-defined substance possessing tanning properties, which he considered an esterified phenolsulphonic acid anhydride, the composition of which he determined as HO.C_6H_4.SO_2.O.C_6H_4HSO_3.
From Synthetic Tannins by Grasser, Georg
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.
From An Elementary Study of Chemistry by McPherson, William
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