chloride

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun chloride has 2 senses

CIDE DICTIONARY

chloriden. 
     A binary compound of chlorine with another element or radical; as, chloride of sodium (common salt).  [1913 Webster]
Chloride of ammonium, sal ammoniac. -- Chloride of lime, bleaching powder; a grayish white substance, CaOCl2, used in bleaching and disinfecting; -- called more properly calcium hypochlorite. See Hypochlorous acid, under Hypochlorous. -- Mercuric chloride, corrosive sublimate.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

chloride, n. Chem.
1 any compound of chlorine with another element or group.
2 any bleaching agent containing chloride.

Etymology
CHLORO- + -IDE

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