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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

(Chem.)

(a)

Of, pertaining to, or containing, zinc; zincic;

as,

zincous

salts

(b)

Hence, formerly, basic, basylous, as opposed to

chlorous

(Physics)

Of or pertaining to the positive pole of a galvanic battery; electro-positive.

zincous ‎(not comparable)