Bromide
['brəʊmaɪd] or ['bromaɪd]
Definition
(noun.) any of the salts of hydrobromic acid; formerly used as a sedative but now generally replaced by safer drugs.
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Definition
(n.) A compound of bromine with a positive radical.
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Examples
- Now only the image-forming silver bromide particles remain, and these have been transformed to metallic silver. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- When attacked by pyro, those silver bromide particles which have been affected by light--and only those--change to black metallic silver. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Collodion emulsion with bromide of silver was invented by Sayce and made known in 1864. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- In brief, film is a cellulose base coated with silver bromide and gelatine. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- I did not know it at the time, but I had made bromide of nitrogen. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
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