Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to or obtained from
columbium . - Existing in or derived from columbo-root: as, columbic acid.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Pertaining to, or derived from, the columbo root.
- adjective (Chem.) an organic acid extracted from the columbo root as a bitter, yellow, amorphous substance.
- adjective (Chem.) Pertaining to, or containing, columbium or niobium; niobic.
- adjective (Chem.) a weak acid derived from columbic or niobic oxide, Nb2O5; -- called also
niobic acid .
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