anhydride

[ an-hahy-drahyd, -drid ]

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noun

, Chemistry.

a compound formed by removing water from a more complex compound: an oxide of a nonmetal acid anhydride or a metal basic anhydride that forms an acid or a base, respectively, when united with water.
a compound from which water has been abstracted.

anhydride

/ ænˈhaɪdraɪd; -drɪd /

a compound that has been formed from another compound by dehydration
a compound that forms an acid or base when added to water
Also calledacid anhydrideacyl anhydride any organic compound containing the group -CO.O.CO- formed by removal of one water molecule from two carboxyl groups

anhydride

/ ăn-hī′drīd′ /

A chemical compound formed from another, especially an acid, by the removal of water.

C19: from anhydr ( ous ) + -ide

There is also a slight increase in the amounts of sulphates and carbonic anhydride.

They are hurtful because they lessen the exhalation of carbonic anhydride from the lungs.

This refrigerator is like those which we employ in our sulphurous anhydride frigorific apparatus.

The sulphate of baryta found, multiplied by ·3434, equals the sulphuric anhydride.

Sulphuric anhydride hisses when it is thrown into water, chemical combination taking place and sulphuric acid being formed.

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