halid

plural halids

1. biologyAny spider in the now obsolete family Halidae, which since 2006 is considered part of the family Pisauridae.

plural halids

1. archaicchemistryArchaic form of halide.

   These compounds,^([the alkyl halids]) also known as halid anhydrids, are the halogen compounds of the acidyls.

   1906, Rudolph August Witthaus, The Medical Student's Manual of Chemistry, W. Wood & Company, page 352

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   The process of liquid separation of solids, which consists in separating the solids in a liquid which is the halid of a metal, whose halids are volatilizable, conveying the separated ingredients produced by the separation from the liquid and subjecting the same to a heat sufficient to volatilize, and adding to the liquid a halid of ammonia prior to said volatilization.

   1911 October, Francis I. du Pont, “1,004,815. Liquid Gravity Separation of Solids”, in Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office, Volume 171, United States Patent Office, page 94

   All the mercury halids show a great tendency toward the formation of complex ions of this same type with the halids of other metallic elements.

   1917, William Conger Morgan, Qualitative Analysis as a Laboratory Basis for the Study of General Inorganic Chemistry, Macmillan, page 109