Tungstic definition

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Of, relating to, or containing tungsten, especially with valence 6.
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Designating or of a chemical compound containing tungsten, esp. with a valence of five or six.
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(chemistry) Of or relating to tungsten.
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(chemistry) Containing hexavalent tungsten.
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Origin of tungstic

  • tungst(en) –ic

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Tungstic Sentence Examples

  • His next discovery, in 1781, was the composition of the mineral tungsten, since called scheelite (calcium tungstate), from which he obtained tungstic acid.

  • Tungsten may be prepared from wolfram by heating the powdered ore with sodium carbonate, extracting the sodium carbonate with water, filtering and adding an acid to precipitate tungstic acid, H 2 W0 4.

  • A crystalline form was obtained by Debray as olive-green prisms by igniting a mixture of sodium tungstate and carbonate in a current of hydrochloric acid gas, and by Nordenskjold by heating hydrated tungstic acid with borax.

  • Tungsten trioxide forms two acids, tungstic acid, H 2 WO 4, and metatungstic acid, H2W4013; it also gives origin to several series of salts, to which the acids corresponding are unknown.

  • Tungstic acid, H 2 W0 4, is obtained as H 2 W0 4 H 2 0 by precipitating a tungstate with cold acid; this substance has a bitter taste and its aqueous solution reddens litmus.

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