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- English Word Rhob Definition See 1st Rob.
- English Word Rhodammonium Definition Pertaining to, derived from, or containing, rhodium and ammonia; -- said of certain complex compounds.
- English Word Rhodanate Definition A salt of rhodanic acid; a sulphocyanate.
- English Word Rhodanic Definition Pertaining to, or designating, an acid (commonly called sulphocyanic acid) which frms a red color with ferric salts.
- English Word Rhodeoretin Definition Same as Convolvuln.
- English Word Rhodian Definition Of or pertaining to Rhodes, an island of the Mediterranean.
- English Word Rhodian Definition A native or inhabitant of Rhodes.
- English Word Rhodic Definition Of or pertaining to rhodium; containing rhodium.
- English Word Rhodium Definition A rare element of the light platinum group. It is found in platinum ores, and obtained free as a white inert metal which it is very difficult to fuse. Symbol Rh. Atomic weight 104.1. Specific gravity 12.
- English Word Rhodizonic Definition Pertaining to, or designating, a colorless crystalline substance (called rhodizonic acid, and carboxylic acid) obtained from potassium carboxide and from certain quinones. It forms brilliant red, yellow, and purple salts.
- English Word Rhodochrosite Definition Manganese carbonate, a rose-red mineral sometimes occuring crystallized, but generally massive with rhombohedral cleavage like calcite; -- called also dialogite.
- English Word Rhodocrinite Definition A rose encrinite.
- English Word Rhododendron Definition A genus of shrubs or small trees, often having handsome evergreen leaves, and remarkable for the beauty of their flowers; rosebay.
- English Word Rhodomontade Definition See Rodomontade.
- English Word Rhodomontader Definition See Rodomontador.
- English Word Rhodonite Definition Manganese spar, or silicate of manganese, a mineral occuring crystallised and in rose-red masses. It is often used as an ornamental stone.
- English Word Rhodophane Definition The red pigment contained in the inner segments of the cones of the retina in animals. See Chromophane.
- English Word Rhodopsin Definition The visual purple. See under Visual.
- English Word Rhodosperm Definition Any seaweed with red spores.
- English Word Rhomb Definition An equilateral parallelogram, or quadrilateral figure whose sides are equal and the opposite sides parallel. The angles may be unequal, two being obtuse and two acute, as in the cut, or the angles may be equal, in which case it is usually called a square.
- English Word Rhomb Definition A rhombohedron.
- English Word Rhomb spar Definition A variety of dolomite.
- English Word Rhombic Definition Shaped like a rhomb.
- English Word Rhombic Definition Same as Orthorhombic.
- English Word Rhomboganoid Definition A ganoid fish having rhombic enameled scales; one of the Rhomboganoidei.
- English Word Rhomboganoidei Definition Same as Ginglymodi.
- English Word Rhombogene Definition A dicyemid which produces infusorialike embryos; -- opposed to nematogene. See Dicyemata.
- English Word Rhombohedral Definition Related to the rhombohedron; presenting the form of a rhombohedron, or a form derivable from a rhombohedron; relating to a system of forms including the rhombohedron and scalenohedron.
- English Word Rhombohedric Definition Rhombohedral.
- English Word Rhombohedron Definition A solid contained by six rhomboids; a parallelopiped.