plumbous oxide

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Origin of plumbous oxide

First recorded in 1880–85

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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Campbell is quoted saying “Nitrous oxide can explode on its own.”
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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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Tragic indeed are those whip-it rumors about Demi Moore, for the allure of nitrous oxide is hardly a mystery to me.
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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.
The Elements of Qualitative Chemical Analysis, vol. 1, parts 1 and 2.|Julius Stieglitz
It is, in fact, on account of this property, that potassium oxide is decomposed by water.
The Elements of Qualitative Chemical Analysis, vol. 1, parts 1 and 2.|Julius Stieglitz
The oxide, K2O, is decomposed by neutralizing hydrogen ions formed by the primary ionization of water.
The Elements of Qualitative Chemical Analysis, vol. 1, parts 1 and 2.|Julius Stieglitz