cuprous
- a of or containing divalent copper
- While cooking up some cuprous chloride on his wife's stove, Adams accidentally dropped cigarette ashes into the brewand vastly improved it.
- At a chemistry symposium in Rochester, during the winter of 1925, Father Nieuwland read a paper on the formation of divinyl acetylene from acetylene and cuprous ammonium chloride.
- But somehow their lives, loves and labors leave the cuprous taste of pennies in their mouths; the middle-income bracket is their social vise.