Amidogen

Quick meaning: Amidogen is a noun meaning (inorganic chemistry, dated) The amino radical, •NH₂, the neutral form of the amide ion −NH₂⁻, regardable as the ammonia molecule with one of its hydrogen atoms removed.

Meaning

(inorganic chemistry, dated) The amino radical, •NH₂, the neutral form of the amide ion −NH₂⁻, regardable as the ammonia molecule with one of its hydrogen atoms removed.

Example Sentences

Chemical formulae: NH₂, *NH₂,\dot{}NH₂, \dot NH₂, NH₂*

Again, if in phosgene gas COCl₂, we replace the two atoms of chlorine by peroxide of hydrogen, we obtain carbolic acid; whereas if we replace them by amidogen we get urea, as shown in the second line of the table.

If amidogen groups are substituted at the same time as the oxhydrils^([hydroxyls]) in a reducing compound containing the double developing faculty, the developing property appears with notably greater activity than if it has only a single developing faculty.

1860, John Joseph Griffin, The Chemistry of the Non-metallic Elements and Their Compounds, John Joseph Griffin, page 315, Ammonia is commonly called a base. It is more correct to call it a SALT, and to consider its components to be the radical amidogen NH₂, and the radical hydrogen =\ H.

Word Forms

• amidogens

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include amidino, amidium, amidinium, amid, amine, ammoniumyl.

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