CPage 187
- English Word Chromatrope Definition A device in a magic lantern or stereopticon to produce kaleidoscopic effects.
- English Word Chromatype Definition A colored photographic picture taken upon paper made sensitive with potassium bichromate or some other salt of chromium.
- English Word Chromatype Definition The process by which such picture is made.
- English Word Chrome Definition Same as Chromium.
- English Word Chromic Definition Pertaining to, or obtained from, chromium; -- said of the compounds of chromium in which it has its higher valence.
- English Word Chromid Definition One of the Chromidae, a family of fresh-water fishes abundant in the tropical parts of America and Africa. Some are valuable food fishes, as the bulti of the Nile.
- English Word Chromidrosis Definition Secretion of abnormally colored perspiration.
- English Word Chromism Definition Same as Chromatism.
- English Word Chromite Definition A black submetallic mineral consisting of oxide of chromium and iron; -- called also chromic iron.
- English Word Chromite Definition A compound or salt of chromous hydroxide regarded as an acid.
- English Word Chromium Definition A comparatively rare element occurring most abundantly in the mineral chromite. Atomic weight 52.5. Symbol Cr. When isolated it is a hard, brittle, grayish white metal, fusible with difficulty. Its chief commercial importance is for its compounds, as potassium chromate, lead chromate, etc., which are brilliantly colored and are used dyeing and calico printing. Called also chrome.
- English Word Chromo Definition A chromolithograph.
- English Word Chromoblast Definition An embryonic cell which develops into a pigment cell.
- English Word Chromogen Definition Vegetable coloring matter other than green; chromule.
- English Word Chromogen Definition Any colored compound, supposed to contain one or more chromophores.
- English Word Chromogenic Definition Containing, or capable of forming, chromogen; as, chromogenic bacteria.
- English Word Chromograph Definition An apparatus by which a number of copies of written matter, maps, plans, etc., can be made; -- called also hectograph.
- English Word Chromoleucite Definition A chromoplastid.
- English Word Chromolithograph Definition A picture printed in tints and colors by repeated impressions from a series of stones prepared by the lithographic process.
- English Word Chromolithographer Definition One who is engaged in chromolithography.
- English Word Chromolithographic Definition Pertaining to, or made by, chromolithography.
- English Word Chromolithography Definition Lithography adapted to printing in inks of various colors.
- English Word Chromophane Definition A general name for the several coloring matters, red, green, yellow, etc., present in the inner segments in the cones of the retina, held in solution by fats, and slowly decolorized by light; distinct from the photochemical pigments of the rods of the retina.
- English Word Chromophore Definition Any chemical group or residue (as NO2; N2; or O2) which imparts some decided color to the compound of which it is an ingredient.
- English Word Chromophotography Definition The art of producing photographs in colors.
- English Word Chromophotolithograph Definition A photolithograph printed in colors.
- English Word Chromoplastid Definition A protoplasmic granule of some other color than green; -- also called chromoleucite.
- English Word Chromos Definition of Chromo
- English Word Chromosome Definition One of the minute bodies into which the chromatin of the nucleus is resolved during mitotic cell division; the idant of Weismann.
- English Word Chromosphere Definition An atmosphere of rare matter, composed principally of incandescent hydrogen gas, surrounding the sun and enveloping the photosphere. Portions of the chromosphere are here and there thrown up into enormous tongues of flame.