Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In chem., bismuth of which one atom is united to one atom of oxygen. This compound (incapable of separate existence) occurs as a compound radical.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Min.) Hydrous carbonate of bismuth, an earthy mineral of a dull white or yellowish color.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun chemistry Any
tartrate in the form of aunivalent radical , wherein only one replaceablehydrogen atom has been replaced by abase , causing it to have twice the amount ofacid contained in a normalsalt .
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This group would, by this theory, become an oxygenated metal radical similar to the hypothetical bismuthyl and uranyl, and yet one in which the metallic character has disappeared as completely as in the ferrocyanic group.
Scientific American Supplement No. 822, October 3, 1891 Various
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In these two compounds the group of atoms, BiO, acts as a univalent metallic radical and is called _bismuthyl_.
An Elementary Study of Chemistry William McPherson
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The salt represented in the last equation is sometimes called bismuth oxychloride, or bismuthyl chloride.
An Elementary Study of Chemistry William McPherson
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