haloid
Meanings
adj
- Resembling salt; said of certain binary compounds consisting of a metal united to a negative element or radical, and now chiefly applied to the chlorides, bromides, iodides, and sometimes the fluorides and cyanides.
noun
- Any haloid substance.
Word forms
Etymology
From halo- + -oid.
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