HALIDE

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Meaning:

A salt of any halogen acid

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Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("halide" is a kind of...):

salt (a compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal (or a radical that acts like a metal))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "halide"):

bromide (any of the salts of hydrobromic acid; formerly used as a sedative but now generally replaced by safer drugs)

fluoride (a salt of hydrofluoric acid)

iodide (a salt or ester of hydriodic acid)

chloride (any salt of hydrochloric acid (containing the chloride ion))

tetrahalide (any halide containing four halogen atoms in its molecules)