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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A corrosive, colorless suffocating gas, HI, used to manufacture hydriodic acid.
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- noun inorganic chemistry a
colourless gas withmolecular formula HI, having asuffocating smell ; it formshydriodic acid whendissolved inwater
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- noun a colorless gas that yields hydroiodic acid in aqueous solution
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