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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A compound which conducts itself in a solution in liquid ammonia as an ordinary base conducts itself in aqueous solution and which contains the group—NH2 in place of the hydroxyl, OH, of an ordinary base: as, potassium amide, KNH2.

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