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Hydrobromic

Composed of hydrogen and bromine; as, hydrobromic acid.

Hydrobromide

A compound of hydrobromic acid with a base; -- distinguished from a bromide, in which only the bromine unites with the base.

Hydrocarbon

A compound containing only hydrogen and carbon, as methane, benzene, etc.; also, by extension, any of their derivatives.

Hydrocarbostyril

A white, crystalline, nitrogenous hydrocarbon, C9H9NO, obtained from certain derivatives of cinnamic acid and closely related to quinoline and carbostyril.

Hydrocaulus

The hollow stem of a hydroid, either simple or branched. See Illust. of Gymnoblastea and Hydroidea.

Hydrocele

A collection of serous fluid in the areolar texture of the scrotum or in the coverings, especially in the serous sac, investing the testicle or the spermatic cord; dropsy of the testicle.

Hydrocephalic

Relating to, or connected with, hydrocephalus, or dropsy of the brain.

Hydrocephalus

An accumulation of liquid within the cavity of the cranium, especially within the ventricles of the brain; dropsy of the brain. It is due usually to tubercular meningitis. When it occurs in infancy, it often enlarges the head enormously.

Hydrochloric

Pertaining to, or compounded of, chlorine and hydrogen gas; as, hydrochloric acid; chlorhydric.

Hydrochloride

A compound of hydrochloric acid with a base; -- distinguished from a chloride, where only chlorine unites with the base.

Hydrocorallia

A division of Hydroidea, including those genera that secrete a stony coral, as Millepora and Stylaster. Two forms of zooids in life project from small pores in the coral and resemble those of other hydroids. See Millepora.

Hydrocyanic

Pertaining to, or derived from the combination of, hydrogen and cyanogen.

Hydrocyanide

A compound of hydrocyanic acid with a base; -- distinguished from a cyanide, in which only the cyanogen so combines.

Hydrodynamics

That branch of the science of mechanics which relates to fluids, or, as usually limited, which treats of the laws of motion and action of nonelastic fluids, whether as investigated mathematically, or by observation and experiment; the principles of dynamics, as applied to water and other fluids.

Hydrodynamometer

An instrument to measure the velocity of a liquid current by the force of its impact.

Hydroferricyanic

Pertaining to, or containing, or obtained from, hydrogen, ferric iron, and cyanogen; as, hydroferricyanic acid. See Ferricyanic.

Hydroferrocyanic

Pertaining to, or containing, or obtained from, hydrogen, ferrous iron, and cyanogen; as, hydroferrocyanic acid. See Ferrocyanic.

Hydrofluate

A supposed compound of hydrofluoris acid and a base; a fluoride.

Hydrofluoric

Pertaining to, or containing, hydrogen and fluorine; fluohydric; as, hydrofluoric acid.

Hydrofluosilicate

A salt of hydrofluosilic acid; a silicofluoride. See Silicofluoride.

Hydrofluosilicic

Pertaining to, or denoting, a compound consisting of a double fluoride of hydrogen and silicon; silicofluoric. See Silicofluoric.

Hydrogalvanic

Pertaining to, produced by, or consisting of, electricity evolved by the action or use of fluids; as, hydrogalvanic currents.

Hydrogen

A gaseous element, colorless, tasteless, and odorless, the lightest known substance, being fourteen and a half times lighter than air (hence its use in filling balloons), and over eleven thousand times lighter than water. It is very abundant, being an ingredient of water and of many other substances, especially those of animal or vegetable origin. It may by produced in many ways, but is chiefly obtained by the action of acids (as sulphuric) on metals, as zinc, iron, etc. It is very inflammable, and is an ingredient of coal gas and water gas. It is standard of chemical equivalents or combining weights, and also of valence, being the typical monad. Symbol H. Atomic weight 1.

Hydrogenation

The act of combining with hydrogen, or the state of being so combined.

Hydrogenide

A binary compound containing hydrogen; a hydride. [R.] See Hydride.

Hydrogenium

Hydrogen; -- called also in view of its supposed metallic nature.

Hydrogenize

To combine with hydrogen; to treat with, or subject to the action of, hydrogen; to reduce; -- contrasted with oxidize.

Hydrogenous

Of or pertaining to hydrogen; containing hydrogen.

Hydrognosy

A treatise upon, or a history and description of, the water of the earth.

Hydrographer

One skilled in the hydrography; one who surveys, or draws maps or charts of, the sea, lakes, or other waters, with the adjacent shores; one who describes the sea or other waters.

Hydrography

The art of measuring and describing the sea, lakes, rivers, and other waters, with their phenomena.

Hydroid

Related to, or resembling, the hydra; of or pertaining to the Hydroidea. One of the Hydroideas.

Hydroidea

An extensive order of Hydrozoa or Acaleph/.

Hydrokinetic

Of or pertaining to the motions of fluids, or the forces which produce or affect such motions; -- opposed to hydrostatic.

Hydrolase

an enzyme which causes the splitting of a chemical bond with the addition of the elements of water; a hydrolytic enzyme. Formerly called a hydrolytic ferment.

Hydrology

The science of water, its properties, phenomena, and distribution over the earth's surface.

Hydrolysis

A chemical process causing the splitting of a chemical bond by the addition of the elements of water. Where the bond which is split is not part of a ring structure, this process causes formation of two compounds from one compound plus water, as in the hydrolysis of the ester bonds of fats during saponification.

Hydrolytic

Tending to remove or separate water; eliminating water.

Hydromagnesite

A hydrous carbonate of magnesia occurring in white, earthy, amorphous masses.

Hydromancy

Divination by means of water, -- practiced by the ancients.

Hydromechanics

That branch of physics which treats of the mechanics of liquids, or of their laws of equilibrium and of motion.

Hydromedusa

Any medusa or jellyfish which is produced by budding from a hydroid. They are called also Craspedota, and naked-eyed medus/.

Hydromel

A liquor consisting of honey diluted in water, and after fermentation called mead.

Hydrometallurgical

Of or pertaining to hydrometallurgy; involving the use of liquid reagents in the treatment or reduction of ores.

Hydrometallurgy

The art or process of assaying or reducing ores by means of liquid reagents.

Hydrometeor

A meteor or atmospheric phenomenon dependent upon the vapor of water; -- in the pl., a general term for the whole aqueous phenomena of the atmosphere, as rain, snow, hail, etc.

Hydrometeorology

That branch of meteorology which relates to, or treats of, water in the atmosphere, or its phenomena, as rain, clouds, snow, hail, storms, etc.

Hydrometer

An instrument for determining the specific gravities of liquids, and thence the strength spirituous liquors, saline solutions, etc.

Hydrometrograph

An instrument for determining and recording the quantity of water discharged from a pipe, orifice, etc., in a given time.

Hydrometry

The art of determining the specific gravity of liquids, and thence the strength of spirituous liquors, saline solutions, etc.

Hydromica

A variety of potash mica containing water. It is less elastic than ordinary muscovite.

Hydronephrosis

An accumulation of urine in the pelvis of the kidney, occasioned by obstruction in the urinary passages.

Hydropathist

One who practices hydropathy; a water-cure doctor.

Hydropathy

The water cure; a mode of treating diseases by the copious and frequent use of pure water, both internally and externally.

Hydrophane

A semitranslucent variety of opal that becomes translucent or transparent on immersion in water.

Hydrophid

Any sea snake of the genus Hydrophys and allied genera. These snakes are venomous, live upon fishes, and have a flattened tail for swimming.

Hydrophlorone

A white, crystalline benzene derivative, C8H10O2, obtained by the reduction of phlorone.

Hydrophobia

An abnormal dread of water, said to be a symptom of canine madness; hence: A viral disease trransmitted by a bite from, or inoculation with the saliva of, a rabid creature, of which the chief symptoms are, a sense of dryness and constriction in the throat, causing difficulty in deglutition, and a marked heightening of reflex excitability, producing convulsions whenever the patient attempts to swallow, or is disturbed in any way, as by the sight or sound of water; rabies; canine madness.

Hydrophobic

Of or pertaining to hydrophobia; producing or caused by rabies; as, hydrophobic symptoms; the hydrophobic poison.

Hydrophore

An instrument used for the purpose of obtaining specimens of water from any desired depth, as in a river, a lake, or the ocean.

Hydrophyllium

One of the flat, leaflike, protective zooids, covering other zooids of certain Siphonophora.

Hydropiper

A species (Polygonum Hydropiper) of knotweed with acrid foliage; water pepper; smartweed.

Hydroplane

Of a boat, to move through water while supported by hydroplanes{3} (see hydroplane{3}, above).

Hydropneumatic

Pertaining to, or depending upon, both liquid and gaseous substances; as, hydropneumatic apparatus for collecting gases over water or other liquids.

Hydropult

A machine for throwing water by hand power, as a garden engine, a fire extinguisher, etc.

Hydroquinone

A white crystalline substance, C6H4(OH)2, obtained by the reduction of quinone. It is a diacid phenol, resembling, and metameric with, pyrocatechin and resorcin. Called also dihydroxy benzene.

Hydrorhiza

The rootstock or decumbent stem by which a hydroid is attached to other objects. See Illust. under Hydroidea.

Hydrosalt

A salt supposed to be formed by a hydracid and a base. An acid salt. A hydrous salt; a salt combined with water of hydration or crystallization.

Hydroscope

An instrument designed to mark the presence of water, especially in air.

Hydrosoma Hydrosome

All the zooids of a hydroid colony collectively, including the nutritive and reproductive zooids, and often other kinds.

Hydrosorbic

Pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained from sorbic acid when this takes up hydrogen; as, hydrosorbic acid.

Hydrostat

A contrivance or apparatus to prevent the explosion of steam boilers.

Hydrostatical Hydrostatic

Of or relating to hydrostatics; pertaining to, or in accordance with, the principles of the equilibrium of fluids.

Hydrostatics

The branch of science which relates to the pressure and equilibrium of nonelastic fluids, as water, mercury, etc.; the principles of statics applied to water and other liquids.

Hydrosulphide

One of a series of compounds, derived from hydrogen sulphide by the replacement of half its hydrogen by a base or basic radical; as, potassium hydrosulphide, KSH. The hydrosulphides are analogous to the hydrates and include the mercaptans.

Hydrosulphite

A saline compound of hydrosulphurous acid and a base.

Hydrosulphuric

Pertaining to, or derived from, hydrogen and sulphur; as, hydrosulphuric acid, a designation applied to the solution of hydrogen sulphide in water.

Hydrosulphurous

Pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained by the reduction of sulphurous acid. See Hyposulphurous acid, under Hyposulphurous.

Hydrotellurate

A salt formed by the union of hydrotelluric acid and the base.

Hydrotelluric

Formed by hydrogen and tellurium; as, hydrotelluric acid, or hydrogen telluride.

Hydrotheca

One of the calicles which, in some Hydroidea (Thecaphora), protect the hydrants. See Illust. of Hydroidea, and Campanularian.

Hydrothermal

Of or pertaining to hot water; -- used esp. with reference to the action of heated waters in dissolving, redepositing, and otherwise producing mineral changes within the crust of the globe.

Hydrothorax

An accumulation of serous fluid in the cavity of the chest.

Hydrotic

Causing a discharge of water or phlegm. A hydrotic medicine.

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