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A binary compound of chlorine with another element or radical; as, chloride of sodium (common salt). Chloride of ammonium, sal ammoniac. -- Chloride of lime, bleaching powder; a grayish white substance, CaOClcalcium hypochlorite. See Hypochlorous acid, under Hypochlorous. -- Mercuric chloride, corrosive sublimate.…

The trichloride of gold combination with the chloride of another metal, forming a double chloride; -- called also chloraurate.

ting of two atoms of chlorine with one or more atoms of another element; -- called also dichloride. Bichloride of mercury, mercuric chloride; -- sometimes called corrosive sublimate.

Same as Bichloride.

A compound of the bichloride of mercury with another chloride. [Obs.]

A compound of hydrochloric acid with a base; -- distinguished from a chloride, where only chlorine unites with the base.

A ternary compound of oxygen and chlorine; as, plumbic oxychloride.

A chloride having five atoms of chlorine in each molecule.

A chloride having a higher proportion of chlorine than any other chloride of the same substance or series.

A double chloride of platinum and some other metal or radical; a salt of platinochloric acid.

A chloride containing more than one atom of chlorine in the molecule.

A chloride having three atoms of chlorine in the molecule.

A red ocher used to darken mahogany and for making chloride of potassium.

The salt of wisdom of the alchemists, a double salt composed of the chlorides of ammonium and mercury. It was formerly used as a stimulant. Brande & C.

A term used for the Powder of Algaroth, a white powder which is a compound of trichloride and trioxide of antimony. It was formerly used in medicine as an emetic, purgative, and diaphoretic.

ng positives by artificial light. It is coated with gelatin containing silver bromide and chloride. [Eng.]

as the motive force. -- Sal ammoniac Etym: [L. sal ammoniacus], the salt usually called chloride of ammonium, and formerly muriate of ammonia.

f certain compounds of silver in which this metal has its lowest proportion; as, argentic chloride.

mpounds in which silver has a higher proportion than in argentic compounds; as, argentous chloride.

Orig., a printing-out process using paper coated with silver chloride in gelatin; now, any such process using silver salts in either collodion or gelatin; also, a print so made.