chloride : Idioms & Phrases


acetyl chloride

  • noun colorless liquid acyl chloride (CH3COCl) that has a pungent odor
    acetyl chloride.
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aluminium chloride

  • noun a chloride used as a wood preservative or catalyst
    aluminium chloride.
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aluminum chloride

  • noun a chloride used as a wood preservative or catalyst
    aluminium chloride.
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ammonium chloride

  • noun a white salt used in dry cells
    sal ammoniac.
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calcium chloride

  • noun a deliquescent salt; used in de-icing and as a drying agent
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Carbonyl chloride

  • (Chem.), a colorless gas, COCl2, of offensive odor, and easily condensable to liquid. It is formed from chlorine and carbon monoxide, under the influence of light, and hence has been called phosgene gas; called also carbon oxychloride.
Webster 1913

Chloride of ammonium

  • sal ammoniac.
Webster 1913

Chloride of lime

  • noun a white powder comprised of calcium hydroxide and chloride and hypochlorite and used to bleach and/or disinfect
    bleaching powder; chlorinated lime.
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  • bleaching powder; a grayish white substance, CaOCl, used in bleaching and disinfecting; called more properly calcium hypochlorite. See Hypochlorous acid, under Hypochlorous.
Webster 1913

Cobaltous chloride

  • a crystalline compound, CoCl2, of a pale rose color when hydrous, blue when dehydrated. Its solution is used for a sympathetic ink, the writing being nearly colorless when dried in the air, owing to absorbed moisture, and becoming bright blue when warmed.
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ethanoyl chloride

  • noun colorless liquid acyl chloride (CH3COCl) that has a pungent odor
    acetyl chloride.
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ethyl chloride

  • noun a colorless flammable gas used as a local surface anesthetic
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hydrogen chloride

  • noun a colorless corrosive gas (HCl)
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Luteocobaltic chloride

  • (Chem.), a brilliant reddish yellow crystalline compound, Co2Cl6(NH3)12, obtained by the action of ammonium chloride on an ammoniacal solution of cobaltic chloride.
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Mercuric chloride

  • noun a white poisonous soluble crystalline sublimate of mercury; used as a pesticide or antiseptic or wood preservative
    corrosive sublimate; mercuric chloride; bichloride of mercury.
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  • corrosive sublimate. See Corrosive.
  • corrosive sublimate.
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Mercurous chloride

  • noun a tasteless colorless powder used medicinally as a cathartic
    calomel.
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  • . (Chem.) See Calomel.
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mercury chloride

  • noun a white poisonous soluble crystalline sublimate of mercury; used as a pesticide or antiseptic or wood preservative
    corrosive sublimate; mercuric chloride; bichloride of mercury.
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methylene chloride

  • noun a nonflammable liquid used as a solvent and paint remover and refrigerant
    dichloromethane.
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methylthionine chloride

  • noun a dark green dye used as a stain, an antiseptic, a chemical indicator, and an antidote in cyanide poisoning
    methylene blue.
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obidoxime chloride

  • noun a chloride used as an antidote for nerve gases such as sarin or VX
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polyvinyl chloride

  • noun a polymer of vinyl chloride used instead of rubber in electric cables
    PVC.
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potassium chloride

  • noun salt of potassium (KCl) (trade names K-Dur 20, Kaochlor and K-lor and Klorvess and K-lyte); taken in tablet form to treat potassium deficiency
    K-lyte; Kaochlor; potassium muriate; potash muriate; K-lor; K-Dur 20; Klorvess.
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silver chloride

  • noun a chloride used chiefly in the manufacture of photographic emulsions
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Sodium chloride

  • noun a white crystalline solid consisting mainly of sodium chloride (NaCl)
    common salt.
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  • common, or table, salt, NaCl.
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Stannic chloride

  • noun a colorless caustic liquid made by treating tin with chlorine
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  • a thin, colorless, fuming liquid, SnCl4, used as a mordant in calico printing and dyeing; formerly called spirit of tin, or fuming liquor of Libavius.
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Stannous chloride

  • (Chem.), a white crystalline substance, SnCl2.(H2O)2, obtained by dissolving tin in hydrochloric acid. It is used as a mordant in dyeing.
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Sulphuryl chloride

  • a chloride, pungent, fuming liquid, SO2.Cl2, obtained by the action of phosphorus pentachloride on sulphur trioxide. On treatment with water it decomposes into sulphuric and hydrochloric acids, and is hence called also sulphuric chloranhydride.
Webster 1913