Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A colorless crystalline compound, H3NO, explosive when heated, that is used as a reducing agent and in organic synthesis.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A colorless basic compound, NH2OH, prepared by the reduction of various oxygen derivatives of nitrogen.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Chem.) A nitrogenous, organic base, NH2.OH, resembling ammonia, and produced by a modified reduction of nitric acid. It is usually obtained as a volatile, unstable solution in water. It acts as a strong reducing agent.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun inorganic chemistry An
explosive inorganic derivative ofammonia , NH2OH, used as areducing agent , and inorganic synthesis . - noun organic chemistry Any
organic derivative of this compound.
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Examples
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The enzyme, pulsed with ATP and 14C-glutamate, was chased with unlabeled glutamate plus hydroxylamine.
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Bromine and iodine react in a remarkable manner with free hydroxylamine.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 841, February 13, 1892 Various
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About a hundred grammes of hydroxylamine hydrochloride, NH_ {2} OH. HCl, were dissolved in six hundred cubic centimeters of warm methyl alcohol.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 841, February 13, 1892 Various
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By subjecting this lower layer to fractional distillation under 60 mm. pressure, it was separated into three fractions, of which the first contained 27 per cent. of hydroxylamine, the second 60 per cent., and the third crystallized in the ice-cooled receiver in long needles.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 841, February 13, 1892 Various
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Free hydroxylamine, NH_ {2} OH, has been isolated by M. Lobry de Bruyn, and a preliminary account of its mode of preparation and properties is published by him in the current number of the _Recueil des travaux chimiques des Pays-Bas_ (1891, 10, 101).
Scientific American Supplement, No. 841, February 13, 1892 Various
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They may be prepared by converting nitriles into amidoximes by the action of hydroxylamine, the amidoximes so formed being then acylated by acid chlorides or anhydrides.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" Various
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The same solution, after removal of mercury, titrated by iodine for hydroxylamine, gave nitrogen equal to 9.85 per cent., and when evaporated with hydroxyl ammonium chloride equal to 9.55 per cent.
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The liquid eventually separated into two layers, an upper ethereal layer containing about 5 per cent. of hydroxylamine, and a lower layer containing over 50 per cent. of hydroxylamine, the remainder of the methyl alcohol, and a little dissolved salt.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 841, February 13, 1892 Various
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As the mercury chloride is reconverted into hydrochloric acid by the hydrogen sulphide, and as the hydroxylamine does not neutralise to litmus the hydrochloric acid combined with it, there is an equal amount of hydrochloric acid free or available in the two solutions.
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A letter from M. Lobry de Bruyn appears in the number of the _Chemiker Zeitung_ for October 31, warning those who may attempt to prepare free hydroxylamine by the above method that it is a dangerously explosive substance when warmed to a temperature of
Scientific American Supplement, No. 841, February 13, 1892 Various
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