Suboxide is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 18 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.
You can make 200 anagrams from letters in suboxide (bdeiosux).
First recorded in 1795-1805; sub- + oxide
This specimen is interesting, as showing the early use and knowledge of suboxide of copper as a stain or coloring agent for glass.
This color was quite superficial, and the glass itself was opaque and of a vermilion tint, attributed to suboxide of copper.
The suboxide of a grayish blue colour, which forms a kind of crust upon a plate of lead long exposed to the air.
If there is much sugar, the first drop will throw down a yellow precipitate of suboxide of copper, which becomes rapidly red.
Copper forms two oxides, the suboxide and the protoxide; the suboxide colours glass red, while the protoxide renders it green.
Hence it is easy to calculate the total amount of copper which has been present as suboxide.
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