anhydride

See also: Anhydride

English

Etymology

an- +‎ hydride

Noun

anhydride (plural anhydrides)

1. (chemistry) Any compound formally derived from another (or from others) by the loss of a water molecule, especially acid anhydrides.

Derived terms

• acetic anhydride
• acyl anhydride
• base anhydride
• carbon anhydride
• carbonic anhydride
• maleic anhydride
• malonic anhydride
• mellitic anhydride
• oxalic anhydride
• phthalic anhydride
• sulfinic anhydride
• sulfonic anhydride
• sulphinic anhydride
• sulphonic anhydride

 

Translations

Compound formally derived from another by loss of water molecule

• Afrikaans: anhidried
• Catalan: anhídrid m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 酐 (gon¹), 酸酐 (syun¹ gon¹)

  Mandarin: 酐 (zh) (gān), 酸酐 (zh) (suāngān)

• Esperanto: anhidrido
• Finnish: anhydridi (fi)
• French: anhydride (fr) m
• German: Anhydrid n
• Greek: ανυδρίτης (el) m (anydrítis)
• Irish: ainhidríd f
• Italian: anidride (it) f
• Japanese: 無水物 (むすいぶつ, musuibutsu)
• Kazakh: қақ қышқыл (qaq qyşqyl), ангидрид (añidrid)
• Malay: kontang (ms)
• Polish: bezwodnik (pl) m
• Portuguese: anidrido m
• Romanian: anhidridă (ro) f
• Russian: ангидрид (ru) m (angidrid)
• Spanish: anhídrido m
• Ukrainian: ангідри́д (uk) m (anhidrýd)

Anagrams

• hydraenid

French

Pronunciation

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Noun

anhydride m (plural anhydrides)

1. (chemistry) anhydride

Further reading

• “anhydride”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.