boric oxide

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noun Chemistry.

a colorless crystalline compound, B2O3, used in metallurgy and chemical analysis.

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Also called boric anhydride, boron oxide.

Words nearby boric oxide

Borgia, Cesare, Borgia, Lucrezia, Borglum, boric, boric acid, boric oxide, boricua, boride, boring, boring bar, boring machine

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Nitric oxide helps to promote the flow of oxygen, so it may improve your endurance and fight fatigue during your sweat session.
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Nitrous oxide, otherwise known as laughing gas, gives one an exhilarating feeling while operating as an anesthetic.
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The zirconium alloy will react with water to produce hydrogen and oxide, but it also produces heat that has to be removed.
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Reddish and yellowish sandy clay, coloured by oxide of iron, and used as pigments by the natives.
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Blew in two faces & got good looking ore seamed with a black incrustation, oxide of something, but what could not determine.
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The properties of ammoniacal solutions of silver oxide are in entire agreement with this conception.
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It is, in fact, on account of this property, that potassium oxide is decomposed by water.
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The oxide, K2O, is decomposed by neutralizing hydrogen ions formed by the primary ionization of water.
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