borohydride

[ bawr-uh-hahy-drahyd, -drid, bohr- ]

nounChemistry.
  1. any of the class of compounds containing the group BH4−, as sodium borohydride, used chiefly as reducing agents.

Origin of borohydride

1
First recorded in 1935–40; boro- + hydride

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