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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A solid substance, white when pure, but generally seen of greenish or brownish color, readily fusible, and at a high temperature decomposed into its elements, obtained by passing dry gaseous ammonia over heated metallic sodium. Its composition is NaNH2. It is used with advantage in the preparation of hydrazoic acid.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Chem.) A greenish or reddish crystalline substance, NaNH2, obtained by passing ammonia over heated sodium.
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- noun dated ,(
chemistry )sodium amide
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W. W.slicenus (_Berichte_, 1892, 25, p. 2084) has prepared the sodium salt by passing nitrous oxide over sodamide at high temperatures.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" Various
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