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haloid

The English word “haloid” has 2 meanings listed here.

adjective

  1. 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

  1. Any haloid substance.

Etymology

From halo- + -oid.

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