hydrogenous

American

[hahy-droj-uh-nuhs] / haɪˈdrɒdʒ ə nəs /

adjective

of or containing hydrogen.

hydrogenous British

/ haɪˈdrɒdʒɪnəs /

adjective

of or containing hydrogen

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Other Word Forms

nonhydrogenous adjective

Etymology

Origin of hydrogenous

First recorded in 1785–95; hydrogen + -ous

Example Sentences

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It was a dank, hydrogenous odour, which made me hold my fingers to my nose till I forgot it in the interest with which I watched the ship.

From Sail Ho! A Boy at Sea by Fenn, George Manville

The French School maintained "that hydrogenous and oxygenous airs, incorporated by drawing through them the electrical spark turn to water," but Priestley contended that "they combine into smoking nitrous acid."

From Priestley in America 1794-1804 by Smith, Edgar Fahs

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