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bromide

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Univalent anionic bromine, or a compound of bromine, especially a binary compound of bromine with a more electropositive element.
  • noun Potassium bromide.
  • noun A commonplace remark or notion; a platitude. synonym: cliché.
  • noun A tiresome person; a bore.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A compound formed by the union of bromine with another element or with an organic radical. Also bromuret.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Chem.) A compound of bromine with a positive radical.
  • noun Slang A person who is conventional and commonplace in his habits of thought and conversation.
  • noun a conventional or trite saying; -- often used in the phrase “old bromide”.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun inorganic chemistry A binary compound of bromine and some other element or radical.
  • noun A dose of bromide taken as a sedative.
  • noun A dull person with conventional thoughts.
  • noun A platitude.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a trite or obvious remark
  • noun any of the salts of hydrobromic acid; formerly used as a sedative but now generally replaced by safer drugs

Etymologies

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From brom(ine) + -ide.

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Examples

  • In 1901 he established that by decreasing the sodium chloride in food, potassium bromide is rendered so effective for the treatment of epilepsy that the therapeutic dose falls from 10 g to 2 g.

    Charles Richet - Biography 1967

  • Methyl bromide, which is heavily used on chemically grown strawberries, is one of the most toxic agricultural chemicals in use (toxic to humans and to the atmosphere).

    Maria Rodale: Strawberry Whip: A Simple Spring Dessert 2010

  • The state Department of Pesticide Regulation will register methyl iodide as a substitute for the pesticide methyl bromide, which is being phased out by international treaty because it depletes the Earth's protective ozone layer.

    Controversial Pesticide Linked To Cancer Approved For Use In California AP 2010

  • The state Department of Pesticide Regulation will register methyl iodide as a substitute for the pesticide methyl bromide, which is being phased out by international treaty because it depletes the Earth's protective ozone layer.

    Controversial Pesticide Linked To Cancer Approved For Use In California AP 2010

  • The state Department of Pesticide Regulation will register methyl iodide as a substitute for the pesticide methyl bromide, which is being phased out by international treaty because it depletes the Earth's protective ozone layer.

    Controversial Pesticide Linked To Cancer Approved For Use In California AP 2010

  • The state Department of Pesticide Regulation will register methyl iodide as a substitute for the pesticide methyl bromide, which is being phased out by international treaty because it depletes the Earth's protective ozone layer.

    Controversial Pesticide Linked To Cancer Approved For Use In California AP 2010

  • Seeing how chlorine is a necessary treatment additive and the bromide is a natural element within the water, Ivanhoe officials got creative and decided to keep sunlight away from the water by dropping over 3 million black spheres called bird balls into the reservoir.

    Bird balls prevent urban cancer water | clusterflock 2008

  • Then something called pancuronium bromide, which is a muscle relaxer that stops breathing, and then potassium chloride, finally, that stops the heart.

    CNN Transcript Jun 9, 2001 2001

  • South African farmers will now have a five year grace period to find replacement products for methyl bromide, which is presently used for soil fumigation in nurseries, flower and vegetable production, replanting of apple and other orchards and tobacco seedbeds.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

  • He learns that laborers there work in fields routinely sprayed with the highly toxic pesticide methyl bromide, which is blamed for appalling deformities in their children.

    NPR Topics: News 2011

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  • whichbe commented on the word bromide

    Well, are you?

    July 12, 2008

  • bilby commented on the word bromide

    Maybe, whichbe.

    July 12, 2008

  • hernesheir commented on the word bromide

    Are You a Bromide? - Title of a 1906 essay by Gelett Burgess (1866-1951), in his Smart Set.

    September 19, 2009

  • ruzuzu commented on the word bromide

    "A bit of calm doesn’t sound so bad, but the sedative dose of bromide is too near bromide’s toxicity level. Plus, bromide can accumulate in our bodies. Back in the 1930s-1950s, overuse of bromide products led to appropriately named medical conditions. Bromide-induced coma was dubbed ‘the bromide sleep’. General bromide toxicity was ‘bromism’. Outside medicine, if you were just a bit of a bore you were insultingly called a ‘bromide’."

    -- From "Brominated vegetable oil" by Raychelle Burks (https://www.chemistryworld.com/podcasts/brominated-vegetable-oil/9527.article)

    See, also: brominated vegetable oil, creaming.

    July 28, 2017