Word Meanings - ELECTROPOIONELECTROPOIONFLUID - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An exciting and depolarizing acid solution used in certain cells or batteries, as the Grenet battery. Electropoion is best prepared by mixing one gallon of concentrated sulphuric acid diluted with three gallons of water, with a solution of six pounds of potassium bichromate in two gallons of boiling water. It should be used cold.

• WATERPIG
  The capybara. 2. (Zoöl.)
• Water bath
  A device for regulating the temperature of anything subjected to heat, by surrounding the vessel containing it with another vessel containing water which can be kept at a desired temperature; also, a vessel designed for this purpose.
• Water measurer
  Any one of numerous species of water; the skater. See Skater, n., 2.
• MIXOLYDIANMODE
  The seventh ecclesiastical mode, whose scale commences on G.
• Certainty
  The quality, state, or condition, of being certain.
• WATERRABBIT
  See Water hare.
• Water breather
  Any arthropod that breathes by means of gills.
• Water opossum
  See Yapock, and the Note under Opossum.
• THREEPORT
  Having three ports; specif.: Designating a type of two-cycle internal-combustion engine in which the mixture enters the crank case through a port uncovered by the piston near the end of its stroke.
• Diluteness
  The quality or state of being dilute.
• WATERSNAIL
  Any aquatic pulmonate gastropod belonging to Planorbis, Limnæa, and allied genera; a pond snail. 2. (Mech.)
• Water chevrotain
  A large West African chevrotain (Hyaemoschus aquaticus). It has a larger body and shorter legs than the other allied species. Called also water deerlet.
• Water plantain
  A kind of plant with acrid leaves. See under 2d Plantain.
• WATERBATH
  A device for regulating the temperature of anything subjected to heat, by surrounding the vessel containing it with another vessel containing water which can be kept at a desired temperature; also, a vessel designed for this purpose.
• Exciter
  One who, or that which, excites.
• WATERTHIEF
  A pirate. [R.] Shak.
• Water cure
  Hydropathy.
• Water ram
  An hydraulic ram.
• WATERBUCK
  A large, heavy antelope (Kobus ellipsiprymnus) native of Central Africa. It frequents the banks of rivers and is a good swimmer. It has a white ring around the rump. Called also photomok, water antelope, and waterbok. Note: The name is also applied to
• Mixogamous
  Pairing with several males; -- said of certain fishes of which several males accompany each female during spawning.

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