noun
chloride
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noun
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A chemical compound formed when chlorine bonds with another element, such as sodium chloride (table salt).
"Sodium chloride, better known as table salt, is the most familiar chloride."
"The lab tested the water for high chloride levels."
How to Use Chloride
Learner’s notesIn plain EnglishA compound containing chlorine bonded to another element — table salt is the everyday example.
Common mistake
Chloride is the compound (like salt); chlorine is the pure chemical element/gas.
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Word Forms
chlorides plural
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Sodium _____, better known as table salt, is the most familiar chloride.
Etymology
Coined from chlor(ine) + -ide by the British chemist Humphry Davy in 1812.