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- Basic - a. - Relating to a base; performing the office of a base in a salt.
- Basic - a. - Having the base in excess, or the amount of the base atomically greater than that of the acid, or exceeding in proportion that of the related neutral salt.
- Basic - a. - Apparently alkaline, as certain normal salts which exhibit alkaline reactions with test paper.
- Basic - a. - Said of crystalline rocks which contain a relatively low percentage of silica, as basalt.
- Basicerite - n. - The second joint of the antennae of crustaceans.
- Basicity - n. - The quality or state of being a base.
- Basicity - n. - The power of an acid to unite with one or more atoms or equivalents of a base, as indicated by the number of replaceable hydrogen atoms contained in the acid.
- Phloramine - n. - A basic amido derivative of phloroglucin, having an astringent taste.
- Verdigris - n. - A green poisonous substance used as a pigment and drug, obtained by the action of acetic acid on copper, and consisting essentially of a complex mixture of several basic copper acetates.
- Brochantite - n. - A basic sulphate of copper, occurring in emerald-green crystals.
- Tribasic - a. - Capable of neutralizing three molecules of a monacid base, or their equivalent; having three hydrogen atoms capable of replacement by basic elements on radicals; -- said of certain acids; thus, citric acid is a tribasic acid.
- Pentabasic - a. - Capable of uniting with five molecules of a monacid base; having five acid hydrogen atoms capable of substitution by a basic radical; -- said of certain acids.
- Amine - n. - One of a class of strongly basic substances derived from ammonia by replacement of one or more hydrogen atoms by a basic atom or radical.
- Neutral - a. - Having neither acid nor basic properties; unable to turn red litmus blue or blue litmus red; -- said of certain salts or other compounds. Contrasted with acid, and alkaline.
- -ate - - In chemistry it is used to denote the salts formed from those acids whose names end -ic (excepting binary or halogen acids); as, sulphate from sulphuric acid, nitrate from nitric acid, etc. It is also used in the case of certain basic salts.
- Zirconia - n. - The oxide of zirconium, obtained as a white powder, and possessing both acid and basic properties. On account of its infusibility, and brilliant luminosity when incandescent, it is used as an ingredient of sticks for the Drummomd light.
- Vesuvine - n. - A trade name for a brown dyestuff obtained from certain basic azo compounds of benzene; -- called also Bismarck brown, Manchester brown, etc.
- Imide - n. - A compound with, or derivative of, the imido group; specif., a compound of one or more acid radicals with the imido group, or with a monamine; hence, also, a derivative of ammonia, in which two atoms of hydrogen have been replaced by divalent basic or acid radicals; -- frequently used as a combining form; as, succinimide.
- Bibasic - a. - Having to hydrogen atoms which can be replaced by positive or basic atoms or radicals to form salts; -- said of acids. See Dibasic.
- Trisnitrate - n. - A nitrate formed from three molecules of nitric acid; also, less properly, applied to certain basic nitrates; as, trisnitrate of bismuth.
- Positive - a. - Hence, basic; metallic; not acid; -- opposed to negative, and said of metals, bases, and basic radicals.
- Monobasic - a. - Capable of being neutralized by a univalent base or basic radical; having but one acid hydrogen atom to be replaced; -- said of acids; as, acetic, nitric, and hydrochloric acids are monobasic.
- Unisilicate - n. - A salt of orthosilicic acid, H4SiO4; -- so called because the ratio of the oxygen atoms united to the basic metals and silicon respectively is 1:1; for example, Mg2SiO4 or 2MgO.SiO2.
- Typhotoxin - n. - A basic substance, C7H17NO2, formed from the growth of the typhoid bacillus on meat pulp. It induces in small animals lethargic conditions with liquid dejecta.
- Monamine - n. - A basic compound containing one amido group; as, methyl amine is a monamine.
- Dibasic - a. - Having two acid hydrogen atoms capable of replacement by basic atoms or radicals, in forming salts; bibasic; -- said of acids, as oxalic or sulphuric acids. Cf. Diacid, Bibasic.
- Diamine - n. - A compound containing two amido groups united with one or more basic or positive radicals, -- as contrasted with a diamide.
- Nitrification - n. - A process of oxidation, in which nitrogenous vegetable and animal matter in the presence of air, moisture, and some basic substances, as lime or alkali carbonate, is converted into nitrates.
- Monsel's salt - - A basic sulphate of iron; -- so named from Monsel, a Frenchman.
- Subsilicate - n. - A basic silicate.
- Vanadium - n. - A rare element of the nitrogen-phosphorus group, found combined, in vanadates, in certain minerals, and reduced as an infusible, grayish-white metallic powder. It is intermediate between the metals and the non-metals, having both basic and acid properties. Symbol V (or Vd, rarely). Atomic weight 51.2.
- Thetine - n. - Any one of a series of complex basic sulphur compounds analogous to the sulphines.