Dictionary.com
Thesaurus.com
Showing results for lead azide. Search instead for aldactazide.

lead azide

American  
[led] / lɛd /

noun

Chemistry.

  1. a highly toxic, colorless crystalline compound, Pb(N3 ) 2 , that detonates at 660°F (350°C) and is used as a detonator for explosives.

Etymology

Origin of lead azide

First recorded in 1910–15

Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.