onium compound

onium salt

/ (ˈəʊnɪəm) /

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noun

chem any salt in which the positive ion (onium ion) is formed by the attachment of a proton to a neutral compound, as in ammonium, oxonium, and sulphonium compounds

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Word Origin for onium compound

C20: from (amm) onium

Words nearby onium compound

onion snow, onion weed, Onitsha, on its merits, -onium, onium compound, Onkelos, on key, onkus, onlap, onlay

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How to use onium compound in a sentence

He scrambled outside to find a 25-foot-wide crater just beyond the mud wall surrounding his family compound.
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Less than 30 minutes after the firefight started, commandos entered the compound and found the mortally wounded hostages.
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They say that the Israelis framed him in order to light the powder keg of religious war over the al-Aqsa compound.
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The Holy City, specifically the al-Aqsa compound, has been the flashpoint for the latest round of conflict.
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Now the lead breacher explained how he cut through the steel doors bin Laden used to seal himself into the compound at night.
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He, with others, thinking the miss-sahib had gone to church, was smoking the hookah of gossip in a neighboring compound.
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They held the compound against repeated assaults, and lost several men in hand-to-hand fighting.
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Passing a bungalow that was blazing furiously, he saw in the compound the corpses of two women.
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The body of a young woman was found in the compound outside my bungalow, done to death in precisely the same way.
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The compound was washed on the fifth of May, and a grain of gold weighing one and one-half reals was obtained.
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