tetrazone

English

Noun

tetrazone (plural tetrazones)

1. (chemistry) Any of a certain series of basic compounds containing a chain of four nitrogen atoms.

   Ethyl tetrazone is a colourless liquid with an odour of leeks.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “tetrazone”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)