hydride

[ hahy-drahyd, -drid ]

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noun

a binary compound formed by hydrogen and another, usually more electropositive, element or group, as sodium hydride, NaH, or methyl hydride, CH 4 .

hydride

/ ˈhaɪdraɪd /

any compound of hydrogen with another element, including ionic compounds such as sodium hydride (NaH), covalent compounds such as borane (B 2 H 6 ), and the transition metal hydrides formed when certain metals, such as palladium, absorb hydrogen

hydride

/ hī′drīd′ /

Origin of hydride¹

First recorded in 1840–50; hydr- ² + -ide ( def )

One gram of lithium hydride would give nearly fifty-eight kilowatt-hours of energy in one blast.

Such a bomb would be nearly fifty thousand times as powerful as the lithium-hydride pinch bomb.

It also combines directly with potassium hydride to form potassium formate (see Formic Acid).

I'm damn glad we've got plenty of stuff in our Op field and plenty of hydride for the engines.

Horrified, Rick saw a fireman, clumsy in his protective suit, trip and fall before the oncoming flood of flaming boron hydride.

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