Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Of or pertaining to lead; derived from lead: as, plumbic, acid.
Wiktionary
- adj. chemistry Of, pertaining to, resembling or containing lead.
- adj. chemistry Specifically, of compounds in which it has a higher valence as contrasted with plumbous compounds.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. (Chem.) Of, pertaining to, resembling, or containing, lead; -- used specifically to designate those compounds in which it has a higher valence as contrasted with
plumbous compounds.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. relating to or consisting of lead
Etymologies
- Latin plumb(um), lead + -ic (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Chemically it is converted by nitric acid and chlorine into an insoluble substance -- plumbic acid or the cyanide of lead.”
“There are the pains in the stomach, the colic, and then on the gums is that characteristic line of plumbic sulphide, the distinctive mark produced by lead.”
“a resinated ferrous salt, a resin compound of plumbic ferrocyanide, and a resin compound of ferrocyanide of manganese in combination with a salt of molybdenum and a resin compound of zinc sulphide.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘plumbic’.
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CHEM - names of metal ions
stannous, plumbous, nickelic, nickelous, mercuric, mercurous, stannic, plumbic, ferric, ferrous, cupric, cuprous and 4 more...
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ktrey's wordlist
Words that I like.
Many may be lexicographically impotent due to a lack of citations and definition. Hopefully I'll be able to rectify this eventually.velleity, dispositive, bloviate, bibulous, fungible, concupiscence, avuncular, carnaptious, thrawn, hypocoristic, diegesis, lagniappe and 928 more...
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Adjectival Arcana
A roster of adjectives that infrequently surface in typical conversation and writing. Many are dredged from scientific or other technical jargon or sieved from examples of disused archaic forms.
unitegmic, acaulescent, reticuloendothelial, ingressive, uniate, acanthopterygian, ossific, epiphysial, perivisceral, acœlomatous, cestoid, acælomate and 7756 more...
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squigee's Words
numismatist, oolite, cornichon, flit, penultimate, plutocracy, plumbic, oblate, seismic, penury, lapidary, aerie and 18 more...
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hernesheir plumbous Dec 28, 2010