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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Any of various compounds, especially an aromatic hydrocarbon, containing the cation N2 attached to an organic group.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A basic organic radical, . Some of the diazonium compounds are regarded as tautomeric forms of diazo compounds.

Wiktionary

  1. n. chemistry any univalent cation, of general formula R-N2+; diazonium salts are used to manufacture azo dyes, and take part in the Sandmeyer reaction

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. the univalent cation R-N:N- (where R is an aromatic hydrocarbon); found in salts that are used in manufacturing azo dyes

Etymologies

  1. From diazo + ammonium (Wiktionary)
  2. diaz(o) + (amm)onium. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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