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chloride

  • noun
  • klôʹrīd'

Any binary compound of chlorine and another element or radical.

Other meanings

  1. Any salt of hydrochloric acid.

  2. The anionic form of a chlorine atom.

A kind of

  • compound

Kinds of chloride

  • aluminum chloride
  • silver chloride

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “chloride” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.