Definitions for mercuric

mercuric mer·cu·ric

Spelling: [mer-kyoo r-ik]
IPA: /mərˈkyʊər ɪk/

Mercuric is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 119 anagrams from letters in mercuric (cceimrru).

Definitions for mercuric

adjective

  1. of or containing mercury, especially in the bivalent state.

Origin of mercuric

First recorded in 1820-30; mercur(y) + -ic

Examples for mercuric

mercuric chloride and potassic ferrocyanide failed to produce this effect.

Nitric acid oxidizes it to mercuric nitrate, while potash or soda decomposes it into mercury and oxygen.

From mercuric chloride and ammonium chloride, equal parts, triturated together.

Should ether be employed for this purpose, hydrochloric acid or the acid solution of mercuric nitrate would be selected of course.

Calomel exerts remote actions in the form of mercuric chloride.

Contrast the action of heat on cupric nitrate and mercuric nitrate.

Saturate dilute hydrocyanic acid with mercuric oxide; evaporate and crystallise.

The presence of mercuric chloride may, under most circumstances, be readily detected by the tests given.

Here, again, the mercuric chloride is sometimes equally valuable.

Write equations for the preparation of mercuric and mercurous iodides.

Word Value for mercuric
Scrable

14

Words with friends

18

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