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Chloride

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. A binary compound of chlorine.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. any salt of hydrochloric acid, such as sodium chloride, or any binary compound of chlorine and another element or radical

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. A binary compound of chlorine with another element or radical.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. See chlorid.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. any compound containing a chlorine atom

n. any salt of hydrochloric acid (containing the chloride ion)

Word Usage

"One of the most damning indictments of lethal injections as a means of capital punishment came from a 2005 article in The Lancet, which found that 43% of inmates undergoing lethal injection may be conscious when the fatal and excruciatingly painful dose of potassium chloride is delivered, due to insufficient doses of the anesthetic sodium thiopental."

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nitrate oxide bromide sodium sulphide phosphate iodide acetate fluoride hydrogen