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HALIDE [1 record]

Record 1 2006-05-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Chemical Elements and Compounds
  • Photography
  • Geochemistry
DEF

A compound of the type MX, where X is fluorine, chlorine, bromine, or astatine, and M is another element or organic radical.

CONT

In photography the silver halides, as chloride, bromide and iodide, form the most important light-sensitive substances which are fundamental to all the emulsions used in motion picture work.

CONT

Among inorganic contaminants that can be treated by hydrolysis are metals that react with water: metal carbides (calcium carbide), hydrides (sodium aluminium hydride, NaAlH4), amides (sodium amide, NaNH2), alkoxides (sodium ethoxide, NaOC2H5) and halides (silicon tetrachloride, SiCl4).

OBS

In marine environments, evaporite deposits comprise essentially pure halite ... and various halides (Cl, Br, I) of Ca, K, Na, Mg, and Sr.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Éléments et composés chimiques
  • Photographie
  • Géochimie
DEF

Combinaison d'un halogène avec un autre élément ou un radical.

OBS

haloïde (adj.) : Se dit des sels résultant de la combinaison d'un halogène avec un autre élément très électropositif.

OBS

Dans les milieux marins, les dépôts évaporitiques sont composés essentiellement de halite pure [...] à laquelle peuvent s'ajouter [...] divers halogénures (Cl,Br,I) de Ca, de K, de Na, de Mg et de Sr.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Elementos y compuestos químicos
  • Fotografía
  • Geoquímica
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