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Argentic

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

adj. Of or containing silver.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. Of, pertaining to or containing silver.

adj. Of certain compounds, containing silver in a lower proportion than in argentous compounds.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Pertaining to, derived from, or containing, silver; -- said of certain compounds of silver in which this metal has its lowest proportion.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Containing silver in chemical combination. See argentous.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

adj. relating to compounds in which silver is bivalent

Word Usage

"The facility with which it reduces alkaline cupric, argentic, bismuthous, ferric, mercuric salts, indigo and potassic picrate and chromate solutions has been utilized for the preparation of several ready methods for its determination."

Cross Reference

argentous

Form

argentic chloride