nitrogen peroxide

British  

noun

1. an obsolete name for nitrogen dioxide

2. the equilibrium mixture of nitrogen dioxide and dinitrogen tetroxide

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Example Sentences

Kalashnikov rifles and explosive belts containing TNT mixed with nitrogen peroxide and detonated with push buttons.

From Time

Nitric acid, alkali chloride, nitrogen peroxide on nitrobenzene, nitronaphthalene, carbon bisulphide, petrol, picric acid.

From Project Gutenberg

It is well known that the luminosity of gases can be induced by the electrical discharge, and with rapidly alternating high-tension discharges in air an oxygen-nitrogen flame is produced which is long and flickering, can be blown out, yields nitrogen peroxide, and is in fact indistinguishable from an ordinary flame except by its electrical mode of maintenance.

From Project Gutenberg

The artificial whitening of flour with the highly poisonous nitrogen peroxide seems hardly worth the extra tax of fifty cents to a dollar a barrel.

From Project Gutenberg

From the course of the changes in the density of the vapour we assume that this occurs, e.g. with nitrogen peroxide, NO2, and acetic acid, and the somewhat close agreement of the 847 observed density of the vapour with that which is calculated from the hypothesis of such an association to double-molecules, makes this supposition almost a certainty.

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