Definition of Calcium hydride

1. Noun. A saltlike binary compound (CaH2) used as a reducing agent and source of hydrogen.

Exact synonyms: Hydrolith
Generic synonyms: Hydride

Lexicographical Neighbors of Calcium Hydride

calcium dependent sulfhydryl protease
calcium dobesilate
calcium excess
calcium fluoride
calcium folinate
calcium formate
calcium glubionate
calcium gluceptate
calcium glucoheptonate
calcium gluconate
calcium glycerophosphate
calcium gout
calcium group
calcium hippurate
calcium hydrate
calcium hydride (current term)
calcium hydroxide
calcium hydroxy apatite
calcium hypochlorite
calcium hypophosphite
calcium iodate
calcium iodobehenate
calcium ion
calcium ipodate
calcium isotopes
calcium lactate
calcium lactophosphate
calcium leucovorin
calcium levulinate
calcium light

Literary usage of Calcium hydride

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

1. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1921)
"calcium hydride. CaH,. Calcium does not unite with hydrogen at the ordinary ... calcium hydride shows a marked dissociation from 600°, reaching one ..."

2. Industrial Hydrogen by Hugh Stott Taylor (1921)
"The commercial product, which is a white crystalline powder, containing about 90 per cent calcium hydride together with some nitride and oxide, yields, ..."

3. The Chemical News and Journal of Industrial Science (1908)
"calcium hydride may be prepared by passing hydrogen over metallic calcium in ... When carbon acts on calcium hydride some methane is evolved above 270°. ..."

4. Some Chemical Problems of Today by Robert Kennedy Duncan (1911)
"They obviously have in mind, partly at least, the manufacture of ammonia through calcium hydride. But this calcium hydride has a utility ..."

5. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1879)
"Experimental Section Pyridine for preparative purposes was distilled from calcium hydride and stored under nitrogen. For molecular weight determinations it ..."

6. Coal-tar and Ammonia by Georg Lunge (1916)
"... and purest carbon could not be effected ; no more that from calcium hydride and carbon, nor by the action of acetylene on calcium or calcium hydride. ..."

7. Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association at the Annual Meeting by American Pharmaceutical Association, National Pharmaceutical Convention, American Pharmaceutical Association Meeting (1899)
"calcium hydride—Preparation and Properties.—Henri Moissan prepares calcium hydride by the direct union of pure crystallized calcium and pure dry hydrogen. ..."

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