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bromide
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In Japan , bromide , or promide refers to a category of commercial photographic portraits of celebrities including geisha , singers, actors and actresses of both stage and film, and sports stars. The use of the term "bromide" or "promide" occurs regardless ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN ethidium ▪ The results were viewed after ethidium bromide staining. ▪ The amplified products were electrophoresed through a 1.5% agarose gel stained with ethidium bromide and viewed under ultraviolet light. ▪ The final ...
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n. 1 (context inorganic chemistry English) A binary compound of bromine and some other element or radical. 2 A dose of bromide taken as a sedative. 3 A dull person with conventional thoughts. 4 A platitude.
Usage examples of bromide.
Stas, in his stoichiometric researches, prepared chemically pure bromine from potassium bromide, by converting it into the bromate which was purified by repeated crystallization.
By heating the bromate it was partially converted into the bromide, and the resulting mixture was distilled with sulphuric acid.
It was a semi-liquid preparation, bromine, used extensively to form bromides and bromates and as such the two cylinders containing it were labeled in Martian characters.
It was immediately followed with a lethal dose of pancuronium bromide.
The ER docs among you might make a more experienced guess and assume that it was done with a paralyzing relaxant like pancuronium bromide, curate, or succinylcholine.
The drugs would be sodium thiopental, pancuronium bromide, and potassium chloride.
Fiat Mistura This solution deposits in a few hours the greater part of the strychnine salt as an insoluble bromide in transparent crystals.
Anyway, she was familiar with the fact that the addition of a bromide to a mixture containing strychnine would cause the precipitation of the latter.
Any uncondensed bromine vapour is absorbed by moist iron borings, and the resulting iron bromide is used for the manufacture of potassium bromide.
The action of bromine is sometimes accelerated by the use of compounds which behave catalytically, the more important of these substances being iodine, iron, ferric chloride, ferric bromide, aluminium bromide and phosphorus.
Its chief commercial sources are the salt deposits at Stassfurt in Prussian Saxony, in which magnesium bromide is found associated with various chlorides, and the brines of Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia, U.
The conditions in which bromides are most frequently used are insomnia, epilepsy, whooping-cough, delirium tremens, asthma, migraine, laryngismus stridulus, the symptoms often attendant upon the climacteric in women, hysteria, neuralgia, certain nervous disorders of the heart, strychnine poisoning, nymphomania and spermatorrhoea.
Tenderness and hyperesthesia over the spinous processes of the 4th, 5th, and 6th cervical vertebrae led to the application of the thermocautery, which, in conjunction with the administration of ergot and bromide, was attended with marked benefit, though not by complete cure.
Instead he concentrated on the few that made him feel better, the bromides about everything working out.
Her speeches were as a rule long on sonorous bromides and short on content.