Definition of Haloid

1. a. Resembling salt; -- said of certain binary compounds consisting of a metal united to a negative element or radical, and now chiefly applied to the chlorides, bromides, iodides, and sometimes also to the fluorides and cyanides.

Definition of Haloid

1. Adjective. (chemistry) Resembling salt; said of certain binary compounds consisting of a metal united to a negative element or radical, and now chiefly applied to the chlorides, bromides, iodides, and sometimes the fluorides and cyanides. ¹

2. Noun. (chemistry) Any haloid substance. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Haloid

1. a chemical salt [n -S]

Medical Definition of Haloid

1. Resembling salt; said of certain binary compounds consisting of a metal united to a negative element or radical, and now chiefly applied to the chlorides, bromides, iodides, and sometimes also to the fluorides and cyanides. A haloid substance. Origin: Gr. "als, "alos salt: cf. F. Calde. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Haloid

halogen stoves
halogenate
halogenated
halogenates
halogenating
halogenation
halogenations
halogenoderma
halogenous
halogens
halogetons
halohydric
halohydrin
halohydrins
halohydroxylation
haloid (current term)
haloids
haloimide
haloimides
haloing
halolike
halomancy
halometer
halometers
halomethane
halomethanes
halomethyl
halomethyls
halomorphic
halon

Literary usage of Haloid

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

1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1833)
"Alcohols are reproduced from their haloid ethers by the action of KHO (see p. 563), or by first converting the haloid ether into an acetate of the radicle ..."

2. Elements of Chemistry: Theoretical and Practical by William Allen Miller (1880)
"The formation of nitro-haloid derivatives from nitro-derivatives has been ... A considerable number of nitro-haloid derivatives have been procured by ..."

3. A Treatise on Chemistry by Henry Enfield Roscoe, Carl Schorlemmer (1884)
"Thus, for example, the chlorides and bromides are obtained by the action of the corresponding haloid elements on the paraffins, and also by the action of ..."

4. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1895)
"THE ACTION OF haloid ACIDS IN GAS FORM UPON THE SALTS OF ... Taking up the study of the haloid acids and the various salts in the order of increasing ..."

5. Elements of Chemistry: Including the Recent Discoveries and Doctrines of the by Edward Turner (1835)
"SECTION IV. CLASS OF SALTS. ORDER IV. haloid SALTS. IN this section are included substances composed like the preceding salts of two ..."

6. A Manual of Chemistry, on the Basis of Dr. Turner's Elements of Chemistry by John Johnston, Edward Turner (1848)
"In these the haloid bases belong usually to the electro-positive metals, and the haloid-acids to the metals which are electro-negative. ..."

7. Fownes' Manual of Chemistry, Theoretical and Practical by George Fownes (1878)
"These monatomic haloid ethers are also produced by the action of 1 haloid compounds of hydrogen and of phosphorus on the correspond alcohols (7. i-. ..."

8. Lecture Notes for Chemical Students by Edward Frankland (1881)
"THE haloid ETHERS. Each series of positive radicals forms its own series of haloid ethers. These ethers are produced by the substitution of hydroxyl in the ..."

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