protoxide


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protoxide

(prəʊˈtɒksaɪd)
n
(Chemistry) the oxide of an element that contains the smallest amount of oxygen of any of its oxides
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Orton (1874) noted that "the brown color for which it [the Buena Vista] is so justly admired is not a natural, but a derivative color, formed from the conversion of a notable quantity of protoxide of iron [Fe[O.sub.2] into sesquioxide [[Fe.sub.2][O.sub.3]]."
Calcium was measured by atomic absorption spectrophotometry (AAS) (SOLAAR AA spectrometer M series, Thermo Electron Corporation) with acetylene/nitrogen protoxide flame and detection limit of 0.01 mg/l.
Amaducci, "A novel static automatic sampler for soil flux measurements of carbon dioxide and nitrogen protoxide," in La Chimica Agraria Tra Energia e Ambiente, Proceedings of the 30th Congress of the Italian Society of Agricultural Chemistry, 2012.
Mice were anesthetized using a gaseous anaesthesia system (Biological Instruments, Italy), based on isolurane mixed to oxygen and nitrogen protoxide. Anaesthesia was first induced in a preanaesthesia chamber (2% isolurane), and then the mouse was placed on the heated imaging bed of the Optix under 1% isolurane.