Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A chemical compound of a halogen with a more electropositive element or group.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- In chem., having a constitution similar to that of common salt; haloid: thus, potassium iodide is a halide salt analogous to sodium chlorid or common salt.
Wiktionary
WordNet 3.0
- n. a salt of any halogen acid
Etymologies
- See halogen. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Fujifilm Holdings Corp. raised prices 10% on its silver-halide photographic paper and print materials in the U.S.”
“To an ancient this weary night would occupy the full spectrum of darkness to brilliance, the textural darkness of night without the neon and metal halide and sodium vapor lamps, darkness matting the heavens like molten tar, all things immediate and compelling in the sense that they could be compelled out of the world, owing to will and consciousness, not to desire and effort.”
“Like him, they made pictures on strips of plastic coated with light-sensitive silver halide salts.”
“There's this huge metal halide security light that blasts light onto the rooftop from above the Con Edison parking lot," he said.”
“Two semesters of organic chemistry later, I decided that medicine is best left to those that don't mix up alkyl halide reactions.”
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“It consisted of a laboratory filled with 16 tanks where coral of various shapes and colors grew under bright metal halide lamps.”
“The mixture of ceramic metal halide, compact fluorescent and low-voltage bulbs is more flattering, Ms. Dorfman says.”
“Physiological and biochemical controls over methyl halide emissions from rice plants, K.R. Redeker, S.L. Manley, M. Walser, and R.J. Cicerone, Global Biogeochem.”
“Annual intrinsic methyl halide production by coastal salt marsh plants: global contributions revisited, S.L. Manley, N. - Y. Wang, M.L. Walser, and R.J. Cicerone, Global Biogeochem.”
“Negatives are only used in photographic processes where the image is imprinted first on an intermediary surface that has been treated with photosensitive chemicals, like silver halide.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘halide’.
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SCIE - EU nomenclature
All the scientific words found in the official EU nomenclature. For the screening I used Vocabgrabber of the Visual Thesaurus.
abdominal, absorbent, accelerator, accumulator, acebutolol, acetamide, acetanilide, acetate, acetic acid, acetone, acetous, acetyl and 1171 more...
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Minerals and Mineralogy
List of minerals, elements, group names and geochemistry terms encountered in the science of mineralogy. I've chosen to avoid capital letters in most examples, though a great many mineral names hon...
galkhaite, xanthoconite, pyrostilpnite, polybasite, pyrargyrite, djurleite, digenite, covellite, chalcocite, cerargirite, acanthite, aeschynite and 2608 more...
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IMCO - EU nomenclature
includes words of the "Prodcom list"
veal, valve, used, yak, wax, wan, teak, vat, vas, strip, use, strap and 4515 more...
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Flip your lid
gelid, eyelid, annelid, chilidog, holiday, stolid, cichlid, consolidate, pallid, sipunculid, valid, squalid and 71 more...
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Spelling Bee list 2011
Abalone, ablution, absolution, aboriginally, abstemious, academician, acclamation, accommodation, acculturation, acetic, acetone, acme and 590 more...
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Underworld
Don DeLillo
roily, reverie, slidy, bandido, mohair, brilliantine, stupe, juke step, jowly, juke, wicket, quidbit and 391 more...
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quark, quark, quark!
science words that are fun to say
math, too
"I like to say 'quark'! Quark, quark, quark, quark!" - Hobbesscatological, circadian rhythm, imago, quark, gastrointestinal, phylum, protease inhibitor, trilobite, solar plexus, ratite, strata, quasar and 86 more...
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