haloid
[hal-oid, hey-loid]Chemistry
- Also hal·o·gen·oid [hal-uh-juh-noid, hey-luh-] /ˈhæl ə dʒəˌnɔɪd, ˈheɪ lə-/. resembling or derived from a halogen.
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- a haloid salt or derivative from a halogen.
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Origin of haloid
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Haloid spent nearly 15 years and $75 million developing prototype copiers, even building a factory in 1954 far ahead of demand.
By 1961, when the company changed its name from Haloid to Xerox, 10,000 had been installed.
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We have, in fact, but the one resource—the allotropic modification of the haloid—whereby to explain all these orders of stability.
The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific EssaysJ. (John) Joly
The haloid salts are easily volatilized, without decomposition.
haloid
- resembling or derived from a halogena haloid salt
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- a compound containing halogen atoms in its molecules; halide
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