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Protoxide  n.  (Chem.) That one of a series of oxides having the lowest proportion of oxygen. See Proto-, 2 (b).
protoxide of nitrogen, laughing gas, now called hyponitrous oxide. See under Laughing.






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... effects of light, will remain white. Next, the image is freely washed in water, and then passed through a bath consisting of 8 to 10 parts of hydrochloric acid to 100 parts of water, for the purpose of removing protoxide of iron salt. ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 514, November 7, 1885 • Various

... an itinerant pedlar hawking about woman's wares. See Lane (M. E.) chapt. xiv. "Flfl'a" (a scribal error?) may be "Filfil"pepper or palm-fibre. "Tutty," in low- Lat. "Tutia," probably from the Pers. "Tutiyah," is protoxide of zinc, found native in Iranian lands, and much ...
— Supplemental Nights, Volume 5 • Richard F. Burton

... reduces the percentage in the ore as low as between 15 and 25 per cent., and it seldom exceeds 25, except when mixed with fragments of what is called brush ore, which, when in quantity, raises the percentage to 40 or 45. Brush ore is a hydrate with protoxide of iron, and frequently, if not much mixed with calcareous earth, contains from 60 to 65 per cent. of iron. These ores are found in chambers, the walls of which are exceedingly hard limestone, crystallized in rhombs. This ...
— The Forest of Dean - An Historical and Descriptive Account • H. G. Nicholls

... oxygen that is set free acts upon the fatty acid that it is proposed to treat. A mixture of equal parts of chlorine and steam may be very advantageously employed, as well as anhydrous sulphuric acid and water, or oxygen, anhydrous sulphuric acid and protoxide of nitrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, and hydrogen, protoxide of nitrogen and air, or oxygen, ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 492, June 6, 1885 • Various



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