Crossword-Solution: AMIDES 6 letters, 12 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

And still he chased, and still he slew: he smote Amides war-renowned, who on his steed Bore down on him, but of his horsemanship Small profit won.

Amides are most abundant in young plants during the period of their most active growth, and as the plant ripens the amides seem to be largely converted into albuminoids.

Thus from the acid-amides, which we have seen to be closely related to the acids themselves, we obtain, by replacing the carbonyl oxygen by chlorine, the acidamido-chlorides, R·CCl2·NH2, from which are derived the imido-chlorides, R·CCl:NH, by loss of one molecule of hydrochloric acid.

The carbonyl oxygen may also be replaced by the oxime group, :N·OH; thus the acids yield the hydroxamic acids, R·C(OH):NOH, and the acid-amides the amidoximes, R·C(NH2):NOH.

The first class includes those substances which require no preliminary treatment, and comprises the amides and ammonium compounds, pyridines, quinolines, alkaloids, albumens and related bodies; the second class requires preliminary treatment and comprises, with few exceptions, the nitro-, nitroso-, azo-, diazo- and amidoazo-compounds, hydrazines, derivatives of nitric and nitrous acids, and probably cyanogen compounds.