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iodide - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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Noun

iodide (plural iodides)

• (inorganic chemistry) A binary compound of iodine and another element or radical.
  • ✤ Hypernyms: compound < substance, material
  • ✤ Coordinate terms: fluoride, chloride, bromide; astatide, tennesside
  • (inorganic chemistry) Any salt of hydroiodic acid.
    • ✤ Synonyms: (all obsolete) iode, iodure, ioduret
    • ✤ Hypernyms: halide < salt < compound < substance, material
    • ✤ Coordinate terms: fluoride, chloride, bromide; astatide, tennesside
    • ✤ The organification of iodide in the thyroid gland was described using a second order rate constant (KthybindC,/nmol/L﹡hr/kg thyroid weight) fitted to provide thyroidal iodide stores near the maximal value, which increased with age.¹
    • ✤ Presence of nitrides, argonides, arsenides, and iodides in the crystalline rocks²
• (inorganic chemistry) The anionic form of an iodine atom.
  • ✤ Hypernyms: halide < anion < ion
  • ✤ Coordinate terms: fluoride, chloride, bromide; astatide, tennesside

Etymology

From iodine + -ide.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈɑɪ.əˌdɑɪd/
• Audio (US): 🔊

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Footnotes

1. 2016 March 2, “Dietary Iodine Sufficiency and Moderate Insufficiency in the Lactating Mother and Nursing Infant: A Computational Perspective”, in PLOS ONE ‎${}^{[1]}$, →DOI: ↩

2. 2017, Kathleen F. Edwards, Joel F. Liebman, No Nobel for Noble Gases - Some Guesses Why: ↩

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