osmiamic acid

English

Etymology

From osmium and amido.

Noun

osmiamic acid (uncountable)

1. (organic chemistry) A nitrogenous acid of osmium, H₂N₂Os₂O₅, forming a well-known series of yellow salts.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “osmiamic acid”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)