Tetroxide Definition

Tetroxide Sentence Examples

• On strongly heating in air it is converted into the tetroxide.

• The barium salt is extracted by water and boiled with nitric acid, when the osmium volatilizes in the form of its tetroxide.

• The sesquioxide, Os203, results on heating osmium with an excess of the tetroxide.

• The tetroxide, 0s04, is formed when osmium compounds are heated in air, or with aqua regia, or fused with caustic alkali and nitre.

• The trichloride, OsC1 3, is only known in solution and is formed by the reducing action of mercury on ammoniacal solutions of the tetroxide.