subchloride

American  

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

noun

Chemistry.

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

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subchloride British  

/ sʌbˈklɔːraɪd /

noun

1. 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

In fact, further inquiry showed me that Davy must have observed a sort of subiodide in which the iodine was deficient as compared with the silver: for, as in the case of the chloride and subchloride the former is much less sensitive, so between the iodide and subiodide there is a similar contrast, but it is a much more marked and complete one.

From Project Gutenberg

This process, of the formation of a subchloride by the use of a very weak solution of salt, having been discovered in the spring of 1834, no difficulty was found in obtaining distinct and very pleasing images of such things as leaves, lace, and other flat objects of complicated forms and outlines, by exposing them to the light of the sun.

From Project Gutenberg

CALOMEL, a drug consisting of mercurous chloride, mercury subchloride, Hg2Cl2, which occurs in nature as the mineral horn-quicksilver, found as translucent crystals belonging to the tetragonal system, with an adamantine lustre, and a dirty white grey or brownish colour.

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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.

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In a flash I knew that if I added malic acid to the mercury - per chloride of mercury or corrosive sublimate - I would have calomel or subchloride of mercury, the only thing that would switch the poison out of my system and Mrs. Boncour's.

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