Word Meanings - NITROXYL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The group NO2, usually called the nitro group.

• Calligraphy
  Fair or elegant penmanship.
• Nitro-chloroform
  Same as Chlorpicrin.
• Nitromuriatic
  Of, pertaining to, or composed of, nitric acid and muriatic acid; nitrohydrochloric. See Nitrohydrochloric.
• NITROCHLOROFORM
  Same as Chlorpicrin.
• Calliope
  The Muse that presides over eloquence and heroic poetry; mother of Orpheus, and chief of the nine Muses.
• Callous
  Hardened; indurated.
• Nitroform
  A nitro derivative of methane, analogous to chloroform, obtained as a colorless oily or crystalline substance, CH.(NO2)3, quite explosive, and having well-defined acid properties.
• Nitrophnol
  Any one of a series of nitro derivatives of phenol. They are yellow oily or crystalline substances and have well-defined acid properties, as picric acid.
• NITROSACCHARIN
  An explosive nitro derivative of certain sugars, analogous to nitroglycerin, gun cotton, etc.
• Calliopsis
  A popular name given to a few species of the genus Coreopsis, especially to C. tinctoria of Arkansas.
• Nitrogelatin
  An explosive consisting of gun cotton and camphor dissolved in nitroglycerin.
• Nitroprussic
  Pertaining to, derived from, or designating, a complex acid called nitroprussic acid, obtained indirectly by the action of nitric acid on potassium ferrocyanide (yellow prussiate), as a red crystalline unstable substance. It forms salts called
• NITROSO
  (. (Chem.) A prefix (also used adjectively) designating the group or radical NO, called the nitroso group, or its compounds.
• Callipash
  See Calipash.
• Nitrogen
  A colorless nonmetallic element, tasteless and odorless, comprising four fifths of the atmosphere by volume. It is chemically very inert in the free state, and as such is incapable of supporting life (hence the name azote still used by French chem

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