a. Chem. [f. STANN-UM + -IC.] Of a compound: Containing tin as a quadrivalent element. Cf. STANNOUS.
1790. Kerr, trans. Lavoisier’s Elem. Chem., xvii. 166. Stannic [acid].
1849. D. Campbell, Inorg. Chem., 240. Binoxide of tin … is known, also, as the stannic oxide, and generally as the peroxide.
1868: see STANNO-, STANNOSO-.
1873. Watts, Fownes’ Chem. (ed. 11), 593. Stannic Ethide … is produced by the action of zinc ethide on stannic chloride.
