periodide

[ puh-rahy-uh-dahyd, -did ]

noun

, Chemistry.

1. an iodide with the maximum proportion of iodine.

Word History and Origins

Origin of periodide¹

1810–20; period(ic acid) + -ide ( def )

Example Sentences

I incline, however, to believe, that a portion of protiodide of mercury is retained dissolved in the periodide, and that to its slow decomposition the feeble conducting power is due.

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I was unable to contrast it with the protiodide, the latter being converted into mercury and periodide by heat.

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Periodide would be formed, as a secondary result, at the anode; and the mercury at the cathode would also form, as a secondary result, protiodide.

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Iodides of potassium, zinc and lead, protiodide of tin, periodide of mercury; fluoride of potassium; cyanide of potassium; sulpho-cyanide of potassium.

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Such a periodide does exist; and it is very rarely that the iodide of lead formed by precipitation, and well-washed, can be fused without evolving much iodine, from the presence of this percompound; nor does crystallization from its hot aqueous solution free it from this substance.

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