Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In metallurgy, to convert into a chlorid: a common metallurgic treatment of silver ores, effected by roasting them with salt. In photography, to cover with a chlorid, specifically with chlorid of silver, for the purpose of rendering sensitive to the actinic rays of the sun. Also
chloridate .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb See
chloridate .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb dated, transitive To
chloridate .
Etymologies
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chloride + -ize
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Examples
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Red lead, however, while covering the iron perfectly and effectually preventing rust, and also having but little disposition to chloridize, when it does, will foul both with grass and barnacles.
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Then if for work exposed to air it should form such a coating as to be impervious to that gaseous fluid, and be so constituted chemically as not to be oxidizable by it; if under water -- especially sea water -- to be impermeable to moisture, so elastic as not to crack, so insoluble as not to chloridize; to form a perfect, apparently hard, coating: and yet wear just enough to keep off incrustation, barnacles, or growth of grass.
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