Protoxide

(definition) by Webster 1913 Wed Dec 22 1999 at 2:19:04

Pro*tox"ide (?), n. [Proto- + oxide: cf. F. protoxide.] Chem.

That one of a series of oxides having the lowest proportion of oxygen. See Proto-, 2 (b).

protoxide of nitrogen, laughing gas, now called hyponitrous oxideNO -->. See under Laughing.

 

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