antimonous
Origin of antimonous
1- Also an·ti·mo·ni·ous [an-tuh-moh-nee-uhs]. /ˌæn təˈmoʊ ni əs/.
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How to use antimonous in a sentence
Antimonic chloride and potassium iodide react, forming antimonious chloride and free iodine.
A Textbook of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. | Cornelius Beringer and John Jacob BeringerAntimony forms two series of salts, antimonious and antimonic; and advantage is taken of this in its determination volumetrically.
A Textbook of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. | Cornelius Beringer and John Jacob BeringerThe antimony must be in solution as antimonious chloride, and must not be accompanied by an excess of hydrochloric acid.
A Textbook of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. | Cornelius Beringer and John Jacob BeringerThe product is a mixture of teroxide of antimony, with some unburnt sulphide, and a little antimonious acid.
This white sublimate is not antimonious acid, but there is mixed with it the oxide of antimony with which the acid is sublimed.
British Dictionary definitions for antimonous
/ (ˈæntɪmənəs) /
of or containing antimony in the trivalent state
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