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Definition of "hydroxylamine" []

  • A colorless crystalline compound, NH2OH, explosive when heated, that is used as a reducing agent and in organic synthesis. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "hydroxylamine" in a sentence
  • "The enzyme, pulsed with ATP and 14C-glutamate, was chased with unlabeled glutamate plus hydroxylamine."
  • "The same solution, after removal of mercury, titrated by iodine for hydroxylamine, gave nitrogen equal to 9.85 per cent., and when evaporated with hydroxyl ammonium chloride equal to 9.55 per cent."
  • "As the mercury chloride is reconverted into hydrochloric acid by the hydrogen sulphide, and as the hydroxylamine does not neutralise to litmus the hydrochloric acid combined with it, there is an equal amount of hydrochloric acid free or available in the two solutions."