oxychloride

[ ok-si-klawr-ahyd, -id, -klohr- ]

noun

, Chemistry.

1. a compound having oxygen and chlorine atoms bonded to another element, as bismuth oxychloride, BiOCl.

Other Words From

• oxy·chloric adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of oxychloride¹

First recorded in 1855–60; oxy- ² + chloride

Example Sentences

The leaked substance - phosphorus oxychloride - was later contained.

From BBC

Phosphorus oxychloride is used as a base material by the chemical manufacturing industry, and can be corrosive and highly toxic if it makes contact with the skin.

From BBC

“Once we identified the bacteria and nutrients, we noticed that the treated pavement was able to produce limestone, thus strengthening it and preventing the formation of a substance called calcium oxychloride,” Sales said, “a byproduct of road salt that highway engineers have started to learn about only in the last five years.”

From Fox News

In this process all the anode metals pass into solution except iridium and other refractory metals of that group, which remain as metals, and silver, which is converted into insoluble chloride; lead and bismuth form chloride and oxychloride respectively, and these dissolve until the bath is saturated with them, and then precipitate with the silver in the tank.

From Project Gutenberg

This represents the substance formed as a pure oxychloride of calcium which contains approximately 50 per cent of chlorine, but the article commercially produced never contains this amount of chlorine, the usual percentage being from 35-37.

From Project Gutenberg