Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A compound of selenium with one other element or radical: same as
hydroselinate .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Chem.) A binary compound of selenium, or a compound regarded as binary.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun chemistry any
compound in whichselenium serves as ananion with anoxidation number of -2 - noun chemistry any
organic compound ofgeneral formula RSeR (R not = H) analogous to theethers
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Examples
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Silicon selenide emits a very irritating odor, due to the hydrogen selenide which is formed by its reaction with the moisture of the atmosphere.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 841, February 13, 1892 Various
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House Republicans are already having a grand ole time portraying the Energy Department's Loan Program Office as a government organ from which money is distributed to wild-eyed coke fiends who blow taxpayer dollars on strippers, limos and copper indium gallium selenide thin-film solar cells.
HUFFPOST HILL - Lawmakers Traveling On Someone Else's Dime Like A College Junior Eliot Nelson 2011
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At both companies Mr. Beck focused on developing solar cells based on copper indium gallium selenide, or CIGS, a potentially high-efficiency semiconductor.
First Solar Revamps Amid Weak Market Cassandra Sweet 2011
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IBM has been working for about nine months on the development of this new thin film technology using materials like copper, tin, zinc, sulfur and/or selenium instead of the traditional and more costly copper indium gallium selenide or cadmium telluride.
IBM Acheives Record Efficiency for New Type of Thin Film | Inhabitat 2010
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Another, more recent thin-film technology is copper indium gallium (di) selenide (known as CIGS).
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Thin film solar cells, which are made from a material called copper indium gallium selenide, are cheaper and thinner than the crystalline silicon cells used in the vast majority of solar panels on roofs.
Thin Film Solar Companies Raise Hundreds of Millions in Financing - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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Another, more recent thin-film technology is copper indium gallium (di) selenide (known as CIGS).
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Sandra Rosenthal, a professor of chemistry at Vanderbilt University, works with ultra-thin layers of cadmium selenide.
Solar energy offers a vast supply of power, but harnessing it is a challenge 2010
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Thin film solar cells, which are made from a material called copper indium gallium selenide, are cheaper and thinner than the crystalline silicon cells used in the vast majority of solar panels on roofs.
Thin Film Solar Companies Raise Hundreds of Millions in Financing - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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Thin-film solar panels consist of a sheet of glass or other material coated with a semiconductor in its gaseous form -- either silicon, cadmium telluride or copper indium gallium selenide.
Silicon Substitute 2009
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