hydride
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- noun
- /ˈhaɪdraɪd/
- Specialized
:
hidruro
- Research shows that using lithium hydride can significantly enhance the performance of batteries.
- metal hydride
- nickel hydride
- hydride batteries
Examples
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Solectria engineers weighed its costs and benefits against nickel metal hydride and lead-acid batteries.
Academic text (2000) -
And in there they used sodium hydride as their catalyst.
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It comes with actual rechargeable nickel metal hydride batteries.
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Probably the best type, however, would be the new nickel metal hydride (NiMH) batteries.
Academic text (2000) -
The only outlier is Toyota, which still uses nickel metal-hydride batteries.
Blog text (25) -
Compounds with low-temperature capture and release behavior, such as lanthanum nickel hydride (LaNi5H6), have low hydrogen-mass fractions and are thus heavy to carry.
Academic text (2004) -
In chemical reactions, sodium hydride is often utilized as a strong reducing agent.
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Metal hydride compounds are crucial for efficiently storing hydrogen in fuel cell technologies.
Compounds
- Specialized
A very reactive chemical used as a strong base that reacts with water and can catch fire
Surface Forms
Morphology
hydride = hydrogen (semi-transparent) = hydr + ide
Formed from 'hydrogen' + the chemical naming suffix '-ide'; the relation is systematic but requires domain-specific knowledge of chemical nomenclature.
Etymology
Hydride comes from the root hydr- meaning 'water', the same root in hydrogen ('water maker'). A hydride is a chemical compound where hydrogen is combined with another element, so the 'water' root helps you remember that hydrogen is the main part of these compounds.