a. Chem. [f. STANN-UM + -IC.] Of a compound: Containing tin as a quadrivalent element. Cf. STANNOUS.

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1790.  Kerr, trans. Lavoisier’s Elem. Chem., xvii. 166. Stannic [acid].

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1849.  D. Campbell, Inorg. Chem., 240. Binoxide of tin … is known, also, as the stannic oxide, and generally as the peroxide.

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1868:  see STANNO-, STANNOSO-.

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1873.  Watts, Fownes’ Chem. (ed. 11), 593. Stannic Ethide … is produced by the action of zinc ethide on stannic chloride.

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