Usually means: Pertaining to mercury with lower oxidation.
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General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. mercurous: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  2. mercurous: Collins English Dictionary
  3. mercurous: Vocabulary.com
  4. mercurous: Wordnik
  5. mercurous: Wiktionary
  6. mercurous: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. mercurous: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  8. mercurous: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. mercurous: Dictionary.com
  10. Mercurous: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. mercurous: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. mercurous: Rhymezone
  13. Mercurous: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. mercurous: FreeDictionary.org
  15. mercurous: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. mercurous: TheFreeDictionary.com
  17. mercurous: Merriam-Webster
  18. mercurous: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries

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  1. mercurous: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. mercurous: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. mercurous: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (mercurous)

▸ adjective:  (chemistry) Pertaining to or derived from mercury.
▸ adjective:  (chemistry) Of a compound, containing mercury with an oxidation number of 1.

Similar:
mercuric, mercurial, mercuriferous, Mercurian, Hermian, hydrargyral, metachemical, mesomeric, chemurgical, hermeocentric, more...

Phrases:
mercurous chloride, mercurous sulfate, mercurous iodide, mercurous bromide, mercurous chlorides, more...

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Similar:
mercuric, mercurial, mercuriferous, Mercurian, Hermian, hydrargyral, metachemical, mesomeric, chemurgical, hermeocentric, more...

Phrases:
mercurous chloride, mercurous sulfate, mercurous iodide, mercurous bromide, mercurous chlorides, more...



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