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  • noun Plural form of halide.

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Examples

  • The halides are a group of minerals whose principle chemical constituents are fluorine, chlorine, iodine, and bromine.

    Composition of rocks 2007

  • Grignard had discovered that organic halides can form compounds with magnesium.

    The Nobel Prize in Chemistry: The Development of Modern Chemistry 2010

  • A few minutes later, the first row of metal halides flickered to life.

    Miracles, Inc. T.J. Forrester 2011

  • A few minutes later, the first row of metal halides flickered to life.

    Miracles, Inc. T.J. Forrester 2011

  • High-purity uranium can be prepared by the thermal decomposition of uranium halides on a hot filament.

    Uranium 2009

  • Uranium can be prepared by reducing uranium halides with alkali or alkaline earth metals or by reducing uranium oxides by calcium, aluminum, or carbon at high temperatures.

    Uranium 2009

  • The team produced a version of the mineral in which silver is replaced by lithium, germanium by phosphorus, and some of the sulphur atoms by halides (chloride, bromide or iodide), resulting in argyrodite-like structures.

    Batteries that never needs recharging 2008

  • Metal halides have the added advantage of producing a warm, natural light.

    WHY is the FOUL POLE FAIR? VINCE STATEN 2003

  • Superacid catalysts developed at the Institute permit oxidative condensation of methane to higher hydrocarbons, as well as the selective electrophilic conversion of methane to its mono-substituted derivatives such as methyl halides and methyl alcohol.

    Hydrocarbons for the 21st Century - The Work of the Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute 1999

  • Dissolving alkyl halides at low temperature in hydrogen fluoride-antimon pentafluoride (HF-SbF5), which is

    Press Release: The 1994 Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1994

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