BPage 282
- English Word Broma Definition Aliment; food.
- English Word Broma Definition A light form of prepared cocoa (or cacao), or the drink made from it.
- English Word Bromal Definition An oily, colorless fluid, CBr3.COH, related to bromoform, as chloral is to chloroform, and obtained by the action of bromine on alcohol.
- English Word Bromate Definition A salt of bromic acid.
- English Word Bromate Definition To combine or impregnate with bromine; as, bromated camphor.
- English Word Bromatologist Definition One versed in the science of foods.
- English Word Bromatology Definition The science of aliments.
- English Word Brome Definition See Bromine.
- English Word Brome grass Definition A genus (Bromus) of grasses, one species of which is the chess or cheat.
- English Word Bromeliaceous Definition Pertaining to, or resembling, a family of endogenous and mostly epiphytic or saxicolous plants of which the genera Tillandsia and Billbergia are examples. The pineapple, though terrestrial, is also of this family.
- English Word Bromic Definition Of, pertaining to, or containing, bromine; -- said of those compounds of bromine in which this element has a valence of five, or the next to its highest; as, bromic acid.
- English Word Bromide Definition A compound of bromine with a positive radical.
- English Word Brominate Definition See Bromate, v. t.
- English Word Bromine Definition One of the elements, related in its chemical qualities to chlorine and iodine. Atomic weight 79.8. Symbol Br. It is a deep reddish brown liquid of a very disagreeable odor, emitting a brownish vapor at the ordinary temperature. In combination it is found in minute quantities in sea water, and in many saline springs. It occurs also in the mineral bromyrite.
- English Word Bromism Definition A diseased condition produced by the excessive use of bromine or one of its compounds. It is characterized by mental dullness and muscular weakness.
- English Word Bromize Definition To prepare or treat with bromine; as, to bromize a silvered plate.
- English Word Bromlife Definition A carbonate of baryta and lime, intermediate between witherite and strontianite; -- called also alstonite.
- English Word Bromoform Definition A colorless liquid, CHBr3, having an agreeable odor and sweetish taste. It is produced by the simultaneous action of bromine and caustic potash upon wood spirit, alcohol, or acetone, as also by certain other reactions. In composition it is the same as chloroform, with the substitution of bromine for chlorine. It is somewhat similar to chloroform in its effects.
- English Word Brompicrin Definition A pungent colorless explosive liquid, CNO2Br3, analogous to and resembling chlorpicrin.
- English Word Bromuret Definition See Bromide.
- English Word Bromyrite Definition Silver bromide, a rare mineral; -- called also bromargyrite.
- English Word Bronchi Definition See Bronchus.
- English Word Bronchi Definition of Bronchus
- English Word Bronchia Definition The bronchial tubes which arise from the branching of the trachea, esp. the subdivision of the bronchi.
- English Word Bronchial Definition Belonging to the bronchi and their ramifications in the lungs.
- English Word Bronchic Definition Bronchial.
- English Word Bronchiole Definition A minute bronchial tube.
- English Word Bronchitic Definition Of or pertaining to bronchitis; as, bronchitic inflammation.
- English Word Bronchitis Definition Inflammation, acute or chronic, of the bronchial tubes or any part of them.
- English Word Broncho Definition A native or a Mexican horse of small size.