HYDRIDE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hydride mean? 

• HYDRIDE (noun)
  The noun HYDRIDE has 1 sense:

1. any binary compound formed by the union of hydrogen and other elements

  Familiarity information: HYDRIDE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HYDRIDE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any binary compound formed by the union of hydrogen and other elements

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("hydride" is a kind of...):

binary compound (chemical compound composed of only two elements)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hydride"):

azoimide; HN; hydrazoic acid; hydrogen azide (a colorless explosive liquid that is volatile and poisonous and foul-smelling)

calcium hydride; hydrolith (a saltlike binary compound (CaH2) used as a reducing agent and source of hydrogen)

sodium hydride (a flammable grey crystalline binary compound (NaH))

 Context examples 

Water-soluble vitamin that is a cosubstrate or coenzyme with numerous dehydrogenases for the transfer of the hydride ion.

(Niacin, NCI Thesaurus/CRCH)

A team led by Edith Falgarone (Ecole Normale Supérieure and Observatoire de Paris, France) has used the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) to detect signatures of the carbon hydride molecule CH+ in distant starburst galaxies.

(ALMA Finds Huge Hidden Reservoirs of Turbulent Gas in Distant Galaxies, ESO)