hydride
a binary compound formed by hydrogen and another, usually more electropositive, element or group, as sodium hydride, NaH, or methyl hydride, CH4.
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Rare earths are in color televisions, camera lenses, fiber-optic cables, nuclear reactors, nickel-metal hydride batteries, aircraft engines, PET scanners and much more.
Materials of the last century shaped modern life, but at a price | Carolyn Wilke | January 28, 2022 | Science NewsMuch like the all-wheel-drive equipped Toyota Prius, the Tundra uses a nickel-metal hydride battery to power its hybrid system.
Toyota’s new hybrid Tundra uses an electric motor for more power | Rob Stumpf | September 26, 2021 | Popular-ScienceAlso, more research and development should go into proposals to convert hydrogen into chemicals that are easier to store, such as ammonia, light alcohols, and metal hydrides.
Scientists Just Laid Out a Game Plan for Building a Clean Hydrogen Economy | Edd Gent | August 16, 2021 | Singularity HubOne gram of lithium hydride would give nearly fifty-eight kilowatt-hours of energy in one blast.
Unwise Child | Gordon Randall GarrettSuch a bomb would be nearly fifty thousand times as powerful as the lithium-hydride pinch bomb.
Unwise Child | Gordon Randall Garrett
It also combines directly with potassium hydride to form potassium formate (see Formic Acid).
I'm damn glad we've got plenty of stuff in our Op field and plenty of hydride for the engines.
The Galaxy Primes | Edward Elmer SmithHorrified, Rick saw a fireman, clumsy in his protective suit, trip and fall before the oncoming flood of flaming boron hydride.
The Scarlet Lake Mystery | Harold Leland Goodwin
British Dictionary definitions for hydride
/ (ˈhaɪdraɪd) /
any compound of hydrogen with another element, including ionic compounds such as sodium hydride (NaH), covalent compounds such as borane (B 2 H 6), and the transition metal hydrides formed when certain metals, such as palladium, absorb hydrogen
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Scientific definitions for hydride
[ hī′drīd′ ]
A compound of hydrogen with another element or radical.
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