anhydride
IPA: ænhˈaɪdrɪd
noun
- (chemistry) Any compound formally derived from another (or from others) by the loss of a water molecule, especially acid anhydrides.
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Examples of "anhydride" in Sentences
- When sulfuric anhydride (SO3) is dissolved in water, each mole of SO3 becomes a mole of sulfuric acid, H2SO4.
- Alar is manufactured by mixing succinic anhydride with 1,1,dimethylhydrazine UDMH, a toxic component of rocket fuel.
- ~ To understand the reaction which occurs, it must be remembered that a volatile acid anhydride is expelled from its salts when heated with an anhydride which is not volatile.
- The most acid rain recorded was in Glasgow, Scotland; the reported value (representing an average of several individual samples) was 109.16 grains of sulfuric anhydride per gallon of rainwater.
- The segment -- which serves customers in the chemical, paint and adhesives industries -- produces and supplies acetyl products such as acetic acid, vinyl acetate monomer, acetic anhydride and other acetyl derivatives.
- I saw a chest full of mixed potassic chlorate and black oxide of manganese, with an apparatus for heating it, and producing oxygen -- a foolish thing, for additional oxygen could not alter the quantity of breathed carbonic anhydride, which is a direct narcotic poison.
- My most ambitious attempt was a multistep sequence aimed at synthesizing aspirin, for which I needed acetic anhydride, which had to be made from acetyl chloride, for which I needed phosphorus trichloride, for which I needed to burn red phosphorus in a stream of chlorine gas.
- "The significant current increase in demand for maleic anhydride and projected long-term global customer requirements necessitated the expansion and will strengthen our advantage as leading producer of this important chemical in Europe," said Sasol-Huntsman managing director
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