Chloride
['klɔːraɪd] or ['klɔraɪd]
Definition
(noun.) any salt of hydrochloric acid (containing the chloride ion).
(noun.) any compound containing a chlorine atom.
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Definition
(n.) A binary compound of chlorine with another element or radical; as, chloride of sodium (common salt).
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Examples
- One of these compounds, namely, chloride of lime, is the almost universal bleaching agent of commerce. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- For example, if the sun's rays fall upon silver chloride, a chemical action immediately begins, and as a result we have two separate substances, chlorine and silver. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- For this reason chloride of lime is an excellent disinfectant of drainpipes. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Chloride of lime when exposed to the air and moisture slowly gives off chlorine, and can be used as a disinfectant because the gas thus set free attacks germs and destroys them. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Chemically it is known as sodium chloride. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- To avoid this it is washed first in water and then immersed in a chloride of gold toning bath and fixed. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- A solution of ammonia is nearly equally efficacious in removing the chloride. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- Of all the vast group of salts, the most abundant as well as the most important is common salt, known technically as sodium chloride because of its two constituents, sodium and chlorine. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- NaCl is the formula for sodium chloride, which is the chemical name of common salt. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Corrosive Sublimate Bi-Chloride of Mercury. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- Curie succeeded in obt aining the pure chloride of radium and in determinin g the atomic weight of the new element. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- The image is then fixed by dissolving out the chloride of silver unaltered by light in a bath of hyposulphite of soda. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- I was in the dark-room, where I had a lot of chloride of sulphur, a very corrosive liquid. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The light will separate the silver chloride into chlorine and silver, the latter of which will remain on the plate as a thin film. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Objects, such as furniture, which cannot be boiled, are disinfected by the use of any one of several chemicals, such as sulphur, carbolic acid, chloride of lime, corrosive sublimate, etc. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- All metallic sodium and potassium are now obtained by electrolysis of fused hydroxides or chlorides (Pats. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
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