Crossword-Solution: CUPROUS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Cuprous | a. | Of, pertaining to, or derived from, copper; containing copper; -- said of those compounds of copper in which this element is present in its highest proportion. |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with CUPROUS (5)
Cuprous chloride is used as a solution in strong hydrochloric acid mixed with ferric chloride, and similarly absorbed in kieselguhr.
Copper is a metal which yields two series of compounds, cuprous and cupric salts, the latter of which contain half the quantity of metal per unit of acid constituent that is found in the former.
Cuprous carbide or acetylide is the reddish brown amorphous precipitate which is the ultimate product obtained when acetylene is led into an ammoniacal solution of cuprous chloride.
Cuprous carbide, however, is very unstable and prone to oxidation; so that, given the opportunity, it combines with oxygen or hydrogen, or both, until it produces the copper acetylide, or acetylene-copper, which is explosive--a body to which Blochmann's formula C_2H_2Cu_2O is generally ascribed.
See _Dixon_ Critical pressure and temperature of acetylene, Crushing of carbide, "Cuprene," Cuprous chloride purifier, Cycle lamps, burners for, dilute alcohol for, Cylinders for absorbed acetylene, D Davy, addition of chlorine to acetylene, Davy's lamp for generator sheds, Decomposing vessels.
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Appears in: NYT, WP.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1999–2020).