Trimetallic in A Sentence

    1

    Citric acid, being tribasic, forms either acid monometallic, acid dimetallic or neutral trimetallic salts; thus, mono-, diand tri-potassium and sodium citrates are known.

    2

    If the heating be with charcoal, the trimetallic salts of the alkalis and alkaline earths are unaltered, whilst the monoand di-salts give free phosphorus and a trimetallic salt.

    3

    On heating with an oxide or carbonate they yield a trimetallic orthophosphate, carbon dioxide being evolved in the latter case.

    4

    The first set may be called monometallic, the second dimetallic, and the third trimetallic salts.

    5

    The monometallic salts are strongly acid, the dimetallic are neutral or faintly alkaline, whilst the soluble trimetallic salts are strongly alkaline.

    6

    The soluble trimetallic salts are decomposed by carbonic acid into a dimetallic salt and an acid carbonate.