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Mercury :: Mercury (n.) A metallic element mostly obtained by reduction from cinnabar, one of its ores. It is a heavy, opaque, glistening liquid (commonly called quicksilver), and is used in barometers, thermometers, ect. Specific gravity 13.6. Symbol Hg (Hydrargyrum). Atomic weight 199.8. Mercury has a molecule which consists of only one atom. It was named by the alchemists after the god Mercury, and designated by his symbol, /..

Monatomic :: Monatomic (adv.) Consisting of, or containing, one atom; as, the molecule of mercury is monatomic..

Polybromide :: Polybromide (n.) A bromide containing more than one atom of bromine in the molecule.

Deutoxide :: Deutoxide (n.) A compound containing in the molecule two atoms of oxygen united with some other element or radical; -- usually called dioxide, or less frequently, binoxide..

Atom :: Atom (n.) The smallest particle of matter that can enter into combination; one of the elementary constituents of a molecule.

Tetrabasic :: Tetrabasic (a.) Capable of neutralizing four molecules of a monacid base; having four hydrogen atoms capable of replacement by bases; quadribasic; -- said of certain acids; thus, normal silicic acid, Si(OH)4, is a tetrabasic acid..

Molecule :: Molecule (n.) A group of atoms so united and combined by chemical affinity that they form a complete, integrated whole, being the smallest portion of any particular compound that can exist in a free state; as, a molecule of water consists of two atoms of hydrogen and one of oxygen. Cf. Atom..

Polyiodide :: Polyiodide (n.) A iodide having more than one atom of iodine in the molecule.

Corpuscle :: Corpuscle (n.) A minute particle; an atom; a molecule.

Trichloride :: Trichloride (n.) A chloride having three atoms of chlorine in the molecule.

Tetroxide :: Tetroxide (n.) An oxide having four atoms of oxygen in the molecule; a quadroxide; as, osmium tetroxide, OsO/..

Tripalmitate :: Tripalmitate (n.) A palmitate derived from three molecules of palmitic acid.

Wave :: Wave (v. i.) A vibration propagated from particle to particle through a body or elastic medium, as in the transmission of sound; an assemblage of vibrating molecules in all phases of a vibration, with no phase repeated; a wave of vibration; an undulation. See Undulation..

Equivalent :: Equivalent (n.) A combining unit, whether an atom, a radical, or a molecule; as, in acid salt two or more equivalents of acid unite with one or more equivalents of base..

Stereo-chemistry :: Stereo-chemical (a.) Pertaining to, or illustrating, the hypothetical space relations of atoms in the molecule; as, a stereo-chemic formula..

Hexeikosane :: Hexeikosane (n.) A hydrocarbon, C26H54, resembling paraffine; -- so called because each molecule has twenty-six atoms of carbon..

#NAME? :: -retted (a.) Containing two atoms or equivalents of carbon in the molecule.

Quartane :: Quartane (n.) Butane, each molecule of which has four carbon atoms..

Microcrith :: Microcrith (n.) The weight of the half hydrogen molecule, or of the hydrogen atom, taken as the standard in comparing the atomic weights of the elements; thus, an atom of oxygen weighs sixteen microcriths. See Crith..

Atom :: Atom (n.) A constituent particle of matter, or a molecule supposed to be made up of subordinate particles..

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