Word Meanings - POLYCHLORIDE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A chloride containing more than one atom of chlorine in the molecule.

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• CHLORINE
  One of the elementary substances, commonly isolated as a greenish yellow gas, two and one half times as heavy as air, of an intensely disagreeable suffocating odor, and exceedingly poisonous. It is abundant in nature, the most important compound
• CONTAINMENT
  That which is contained; the extent; the substance. The containment of a rich man's estate. Fuller.
• CONTAINANT
  A container.
• CHLORIDE
  A binary compound of chlorine with another element or radical; as, chloride of sodium . Chloride of ammonium, sal ammoniac. -- Chloride of lime, bleaching powder; a grayish white substance, CaOClcalcium hypochlorite. See Hypochlorous acid, under
• CONTAINABLE
  Capable of being contained or comprised. Boyle.
• CONTAINER
  One who, or that which, contains.
• MOLECULE
  The smallest part of any substance which possesses the characteristic properties and qualities of that substance, and which can exist alone in a free state. (more info) 1. One of the very small invisible particles of which all matter is supposed
• CONTAIN
  1. To hold within fixed limits; to comprise; to include; to inclose; to hold. Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens can not contain thee; how much less this house! 2 Chron. vi. 18. When that this body did contain a spirit. Shak. What thy stores
• AUROCHLORIDE
  The trichloride of gold combination with the chloride of another metal, forming a double chloride; -- called also chloraurate.
• DICHLORIDE
  See BICHLORIDE
• SELF-CONTAINED
  Having all the essential working parts connected by a bedplate or framework, or contained in a case, etc., so that mutual relations of the parts do not depend upon fastening outside of the machine itself. Self-contained steam engine.
• PENTACHLORIDE
  A chloride having five atoms of chlorine in each molecule.
• OXYCHLORIDE
  A ternary compound of oxygen and chlorine; as, plumbic oxychloride.
• POLYCHLORIDE
  A chloride containing more than one atom of chlorine in the molecule.
• HYDRARGOCHLORIDE
  A compound of the bichloride of mercury with another chloride.
• BICHLORIDE
  A compound consisting of two atoms of chlorine with one or more atoms of another element; -- called also dichloride. Bichloride of mercury, mercuric chloride; -- sometimes called corrosive sublimate.
• HYDROCHLORIDE
  A compound of hydrochloric acid with a base; -- distinguished from a chloride, where only chlorine unites with the base.
• TRICHLORIDE
  A chloride having three atoms of chlorine in the molecule.
• EUCHLORINE
  A yellow or greenish yellow gas, first prepared by Davy, evolved from potassium chlorate and hydrochloric acid. It is supposed to consist of chlorine tetroxide with some free chlorine.
• PLATINOCHLORIDE
  A double chloride of platinum and some other metal or radical; a salt of platinochloric acid.