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ARSENIDE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does arsenide mean?
• ARSENIDE (noun)
The noun ARSENIDE has 1 sense:
1. a compound of arsenic with a more positive element
Familiarity information: ARSENIDE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A compound of arsenic with a more positive element
Classified under:
Nouns denoting substances
Hypernyms ("arsenide" is a kind of...):
chemical compound; compound ((chemistry) a substance formed by chemical union of two or more elements or ingredients in definite proportion by weight)
Context examples
As such, packets of charge don’t move nearly as fast as they do in semiconductors like silicon or gallium arsenide, both of which have a highly ordered crystalline structure.
(Certain organic semiconducting materials can transport spin faster than they conduct charge, University of Cambridge)
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