Definition of Tetrachloride

1. Noun. Any compound that contains four chlorine atoms per molecule.


Definition of Tetrachloride

1. Noun. (chemistry) any chloride containing four chlorine atoms in each molecule ¹

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Definition of Tetrachloride

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tetrachloride

tetracarbon
tetracarbonate
tetracarbonyl
tetracarbonyls
tetracarboxylic
tetracarboxylic acid
tetracarpel
tetracarpellary
tetracation
tetracations
tetracene
tetracenomycin F1 monooxygenase
tetracenomycin F2 cyclase
tetrachirus
tetrachlorethylene
tetrachloride (current term)
tetrachlorides
tetrachlormethiazide
tetrachloro
tetrachlorobiphenyl
tetrachlorobiphenyls
tetrachlorocuprate
tetrachlorocuprates
tetrachlorodibenzodioxin
tetrachloroethane
tetrachloroethene
tetrachloroethene reductase
tetrachloroethylene
tetrachloroethylenes
tetrachlorogermane

Literary usage of Tetrachloride

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Outlines of Industrial Chemistry: A Text-book for Students by Frank Hall Thorp, Charles D. Demond (1905)
"CARBON tetrachloride Carbon tetrachloride is made by passing a mixture of carbon disulphide vapor and chlorine through a red-hot porcelain tube. ..."

2. Bulletin by Mysore Geologists' Association (1918)
"Carbon-tetrachloride Method. A process for the decomposition of tungsten ores by means of carbon tetrachloride was patented in 1914 by Jannasch and Leiste ..."

3. The Chemical News and Journal of Industrial Science (1908)
"When the tubes are opened the sulphur dioxide escapes, and the excess of thionyl chloride can be removed from the crystals of the selenium tetrachloride by ..."

4. Outlines of Industrial Chemistry: A Text-book for Students by Frank Hall Thorp, Warren Kendall Lewis (1916)
"Or dry chlorine may be led into carbon disulphide containing a little iodine in solution.f The tetrachloride is distilled off, and washed with alkali, ..."

5. The Chemical News and Journal of Industrial Science (1905)
"The vapour of carbon tetrachloride was found to act slowly on ignited titanic oxide at a low red heat, some chloride of titanium being continuously formed. ..."

6. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1912)
"The tetrachloride may contain carbon disulphide if that substance was in excess, or if the heat was insufficient. This may be removed by leaving the liquid ..."

7. Technical Methods of Chemical Analysis by Georg Lunge, Charles Alexander Keane, E. Adam, P. Aulich, T. L. Bailey, C. O. Bannister (1914)
"Carbon tetrachloride is a colourless liquid, sparingly soluble in water (about 0-08 to ... On evaporating 25 cc of carbon tetrachloride on the water-bath, ..."

8. Laboratory Methods of Inorganic Chemistry by Heinrich Biltz, Wilhelm Biltz (1909)
"Tin tetrachloride.2 Make use of the same apparatus as described under the ... Liquid tin tetrachloride, which is colored yellow by dissolved chlorine( ..."

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