trioxide
IPA: traɪˈɑksaɪd
noun
- (chemistry) any oxide containing three oxygen atoms in each molecule
- (chemistry) any organic compound of general formula R-OOO-R', derived from trioxidane
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Examples of "trioxide" in Sentences
- The trioxide is a white powder readily dissolved by ammonia.
- Oxides of sulfur include sulfur dioxide (SO2) and sulfur trioxide (SO3).
- Smelters may collect this dust and take out the arsenic as a compound called arsenic trioxide (As2O3).
- The main oxidation product is triuranium octaoxide (U3O8), but uranium dioxide (UO2) and uranium trioxide (UO3) will also be formed.
- After initial refining, which may involve the production of uranyl nitrate, uranium trioxide is reduced in a kiln by hydrogen to uranium dioxide.
- A refining facility handles this purification, and then chemically transforms the yellow cake into uranium trioxide, which is now suitable for FURTHER PROCESSING.
- Main exports to Greece include: dump trucks, fresh fruit, frozen fish, PET (polyethelene terephthalate), steel coils, chromium trioxide, hides and skins, and digital decoders.
- The vapors would bond with any number of substances left by the finger—amino and lactic acids, glucose, potassium and carbon trioxide—and the resulting reaction created a visible print.
- Depending on the country, and enrichment means to be used, the uranium trioxide goes through even more processing at a conversion plant, where it is transformed into either uranium dioxide or uranium hexafluoride, the feedstock for enriched light water reactor fuel.
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