subchloride

American

[suhb-klawr-ahyd, -id, -klohr-] / sʌbˈklɔr aɪd, -ɪd, -ˈkloʊr- /

noun

Chemistry.

a chloride containing a relatively small proportion of chlorine, as mercurous chloride.

subchloride British

/ sʌbˈklɔːraɪd /

noun

a chloride of an element that contains less chlorine than its common chloride

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Etymology

Origin of subchloride

sub- + chloride

Example Sentences

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The subchloride of mercury, calomel, is the great British specific; the protochloride of mercury, corrosive sublimate, kills like arsenic, but no chemist could have told us it would be so.

From Medical Essays, 1842-1882 by Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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