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OXYACID
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any acid that contains oxygen
Synonyms:
oxyacid; oxygen acid
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("oxyacid" is a kind of...):
acid (any of various water-soluble compounds having a sour taste and capable of turning litmus red and reacting with a base to form a salt)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "oxyacid"):
hypophosphoric acid (a crystalline tetrabasic acid (H4P2O6))
hypophosphorous acid; orthophosphorous acid; phosphorous acid (a clear or yellow monobasic acid (H3PO2))
polyphosphoric acid (a series of oxyacids of phosphorus)
periodic acid (any acid of iodine that contains oxygen)
orthophosphoric acid; phosphoric acid (an acid used in fertilizers and soaps: H3PO4)
tungstic acid (an oxyacid of tungsten (often polymeric in nature) formed by neutralizing alkaline tungstate solutions)
vanadic acid; vanadium pentoxide (any of various oxyacids of vanadium; known mostly in the form of its salts)
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