oxychloride

American

[ok-si-klawr-ahyd, -id, -klohr-] / ˌɒk sɪˈklɔr aɪd, -ɪd, -ˈkloʊr- /

noun

Chemistry.

a compound having oxygen and chlorine atoms bonded to another element, as bismuth oxychloride, BiOCl.

Other Word Forms

oxychloric adjective

Etymology

Origin of oxychloride

First recorded in 1855–60; oxy- ² + chloride

Example Sentences

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Phosphorus oxychloride is used as a base material by the chemical manufacturing industry, and can be corrosive and highly toxic if it makes contact with the skin.

From BBC • Mar. 4, 2024

The leaked substance - phosphorus oxychloride - was later contained.

From BBC • Mar. 4, 2024

Wooden materials could nowhere be exposed to the weather, since selenium oxychloride is a very powerful oxidizing agent.

From Time Magazine Archive

Many popular lines use bismuth oxychloride, a mineral byproduct of lead and copper processing.

From Time Magazine Archive

By allowing phosphorus oxychloride to interact with phenolsulphonic acid, he obtained a well-defined substance possessing tanning properties, which he considered an esterified phenolsulphonic acid anhydride, the composition of which he determined as HO.C_6H_4.SO_2.O.C_6H_4HSO_3.

From Synthetic Tannins by Grasser, Georg

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