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suboxide
[ suhb-ok-sahyd, -sid ]
suboxide
/ sʌbˈɒksaɪd /
noun
- an oxide of an element containing less oxygen than the common oxide formed by the element
carbon suboxide, C2O3
Example Sentences
The suboxide of a grayish blue colour, which forms a kind of crust upon a plate of lead long exposed to the air.
Copper forms two oxides, the suboxide and the protoxide; the suboxide colours glass red, while the protoxide renders it green.
If there is much sugar, the first drop will throw down a yellow precipitate of suboxide of copper, which becomes rapidly red.
This specimen is interesting, as showing the early use and knowledge of suboxide of copper as a stain or coloring agent for glass.
This color was quite superficial, and the glass itself was opaque and of a vermilion tint, attributed to suboxide of copper.
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