Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A salt of hydriodic acid.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Zoöl.) Same as hydriodide.

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  • noun obsolete, inorganic chemistry iodide

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Examples

  • Having, however, none of the medicines usually employed in skin diseases with us, we tried the local application of lunar caustic, and hydriodate of potash internally; and with such gratifying results, that Mamire wished the patient to be smeared all over with

    A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries 2004

  • It is then to be blotted off and dried, after which it is to be washed on both sides with a somewhat weak solution of hydriodate of potash.

    Photographic Reproduction Processes Peter C. Duchochois

  • Treatment -- Blister over the tumor at once; when the glands remain hard and do not suppurate, it may lead to glanders, in which case rub it with iodine ointment, and give internally, hydriodate of potash in daily doses of 10 to 40 grains, combined with gentian and ginger.

    Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets Daniel Young

  • Iodide of potassium, or, as it is frequently called, hydriodate of potash, dissolved in water, and very much diluted, (twenty-five grains to one ounce of water,) is a more useful preparation to wash the drawings with; it must be used very weak or it will not dissolve the unchanged muriate only, as is intended but the black oxide also, and the drawing be thereby spoiled.

    History and Practice of the Art of Photography Henry Hunt Snelling 1856

  • The spectrum impressed upon paper prepared with a weak solution of the hydriodate of potash presents some very remarkable peculiarities.

    History and Practice of the Art of Photography Henry Hunt Snelling 1856

  • A weak solution of the hydriodate of potash, in which a small portion of iodine is dissolved, is now passed over the plate with a wide camel's hair brush.

    American Hand Book of the Daguerreotype 1853

  • Having, however, none of the medicines usually employed in skin diseases with us, we tried the local application of lunar caustic, and hydriodate of potash internally; and with such gratifying results, that Mamire wished the patient to be smeared all over with a solution of lunar caustic, which he believed to be of the same nature as the blistering fluid formerly applied to his own knee by Mr. Oswell.

    A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and its tributaries And of the Discovery of Lakes Shirwa and Nyassa, 1858-1864 David Livingstone 1843

  • The test paper itself was supported upon a platina spatula, connected either with the discharging train (292.), or with the negative wire of the voltaic apparatus, and it consisted of four thicknesses, moistened at all times to an equal degree in a standard solution of hydriodate of potassa (316.).

    Experimental Researches in Electricity, Volume 1 Michael Faraday 1829

  • I remember very well that Dr. Johannès, he of whom Gévingey told you, was often obliged, at the moment when he attempted to deliver the patient, to bring the body back to normal temperature with lotions of dilute hydriodate of potassium. "

    Là-bas Keene [Translator] Wallace 1877

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