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arsenide

American  
[ahr-suh-nahyd, -nid] / ˈɑr səˌnaɪd, -nɪd /

noun

Chemistry.
  1. a compound containing two elements of which arsenic is the negative one, as silver arsenide, Ag 3 As.


arsenide British  
/ ˈɑːsəˌnaɪd /

noun

  1. a compound in which arsenic is the most electronegative element

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of arsenide

1860–65; arsen- + -ide ( def. )

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By refining raw arsenic and developing improved synthesis methods, the UH-led team created boron arsenide crystals with significantly fewer imperfections.

From Science Daily Nov. 12, 2025

In 1982, scientists discovered the fractional quantum Hall effect in heterostructures of gallium arsenide, where a gas of electrons confined in a two-dimensional plane is placed under high magnetic fields.

From Science Daily Feb. 21, 2024

To do this, the researchers replaced a traditional dot projector with a low-power laser and a flat gallium arsenide surface, significantly reducing the imaging device's size and power consumption.

From Science Daily Feb. 2, 2024

At the nearby UCSB, Young is taking a wholly different route to Majorana quasiparticles, one that revives the fractional quantum Hall effect, but in graphene instead of gallium arsenide.

From Science Magazine Dec. 20, 2023

It is an arsenide of cobalt, nickel, and iron.

From The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Section S by Project Gutenberg

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