selenide

[sel-uh-nahyd, -nid]

noun Chemistry.

any compound in which bivalent selenium is combined with a positive element, as potassium selenide, K2Se, or with a group.

Origin of selenide

1840–50; selen(ium) + -ide

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It exists also combined with cobalt and lead, as the selenide of these metals; also as the selenide of lead and mercury.
A System of Instruction in the Practical Use of the Blowpipe
Anonymous
The selenide was collected and dried in an atmosphere of nitrogen, and then in a vacuum, in presence of phosphorus pentoxide.
Synthesis of 2-methyl-4-selenoquinazolone, 2-phenylbenzoselenazole, and its derivatives
Y-Gwan Chen