haloïde

Definitions of haloïde
  1. noun
    a salt of any halogen acid
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    Br, bromide, bromium, broom, broomkali
    any of the salts of hydrobromic acid; formerly used as a sedative but now generally replaced by safer drugs
    fluoride
    a salt of hydrofluoric acid
    jodide
    a salt or ester of hydriodic acid
    zilverbromide
    a bromide that darkens when exposed to light; used in making photographic emulsions
    zilverjodide
    an iodide that is used in photography, in seeding clouds to make rain, and in medicine
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    chloornatrium, keukenzout, metaalzout, natriumchloride, zout
    a compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal (or a radical that acts like a metal)
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