tetroxide in English

noun
1
an oxide containing four atoms of oxygen in its molecule or empirical formula.
Nitrogen is useful not only as a fire retardant in artificial air but also as a feedstock for the manufacture of ammonia, hydrazine, nitrogen tetroxide , and nutrients such as amino acids and organic bases.

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1. Ruthenium tetroxide is a potential staining agent.

2. Aerozine 50 is hypergolic with the Titan II's oxidizer, nitrogen tetroxide; i.e., they spontaneously ignite on contact with each other.

3. Chloroform explodes when in contact with aluminum powder or magnesium powder or with alkali metals (e.g., lithium, sodium, and potassium) and dinitrogen tetroxide

4. Antimonic oxide is converted on ignition into the tetroxide (Sb2O4) with loss of oxygen. A Textbook of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines

5. Ruthenium tetroxide is a highly aggressive oxidant, but its one-electron reduced derivative is a mild oxidizing agent for the conversion of alcohols to aldehydes.

6. In a process for producing polycarboxylic acids or their salts from polysaccharides by oxidation with nitrogen dioxide/dinitrogen tetroxide with the conversion of at least a part of the primary alcohol groups of the polysaccharides into carboxyl groups and where appropriate the at least partial neutralisation of the carboxylic acid groups produced, the reaction time required is to be shortened and the necessary quantity of nitrogen dioxide reduced.