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  • noun Plural form of iodide.

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Examples

  • They could hardly have suspected, slogging through the vacant wastes and slaking their thirst from pools of water described by a fellow traveler as “a tincture of bluelick, iodides of sulphur, Epsom salts, and a strong decoction of decomposed mule flesh,” that they were crossing the grounds of a future paradise.

    Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010

  • They could hardly have suspected, slogging through the vacant wastes and slaking their thirst from pools of water described by a fellow traveler as “a tincture of bluelick, iodides of sulphur, Epsom salts, and a strong decoction of decomposed mule flesh,” that they were crossing the grounds of a future paradise.

    Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010

  • Admixtures are - according to the respective type of lamp - iodides of sodium (Na), thallium (TI), indium (In) and lithium (Li).

    5. Light Sources for Illuminating Purposes Frank Ponemunski 1991

  • The chief experiments dealt with reactions of alkali atoms with alkyl iodides, systems studied forty years before by Michael Polanyi.

    Dudley R. Herschbach - Autobiography 1987

  • All the salts are explosive and readily interact with the alkyl iodides.

    Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" Various

  • Likewise for scrofula, seawater, being rich in chlorides and iodides, has proved both curative and preventive.

    Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie

  • This is especially the case with the chlorides of potassium or barium, the bromides of strontium or calcium, and the iodides of aluminum or magnesium.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 401, September 8, 1883 Various

  • ~ -- In a recent paper, F. Mylius deals with the reaction of starch and cellulose with iodine, pointing out that the blue colouration depends upon the presence of water and iodides.

    Researches on Cellulose 1895-1900 C. F. Cross

  • In the application of electrolysis to the bleaching of textile materials, it is only necessary to have the electrodes of any sufficiently powerful generator of electricity end in a vessel containing in aqueous solution such decolorizing agents as the hypochlorites in general, and chlorides, bromides, and iodides that are capable of disengaging chlorine, and iodine or an iodide in a nascent state.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 401, September 8, 1883 Various

  • We must remark that the hypochlorites require a certain length of time to permit the chlorine to become disengaged, and that, besides, all chlorides, bromides, and iodides that are isomorphous are capable of undergoing an analogous chemical transformation and of being employed for the same purpose.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 401, September 8, 1883 Various

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