chloride : Idioms & Phrases

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

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

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

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

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

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• (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.

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• sal ammoniac.

Webster 1913

• 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.

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

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

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• noun a colorless corrosive gas (HCl)
  

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• (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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• 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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• noun a tasteless colorless powder used medicinally as a cathartic
  calomel.
  

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• . (Chem.) See Calomel.

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

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

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

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

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• 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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• 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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• (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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• 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.

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