Crossword clues for bromide
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bromide \Bro"mide\, n.
(Chem.) A compound of bromine with a positive radical.
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A person who is conventional and commonplace in his habits of thought and conversation. [Slang]
The bromide conforms to everything sanctioned by the majority, and may be depended upon to be trite, banal, and arbitrary.
--Gelett Burgess. a conventional or trite saying; -- often used in the phrase ``old bromide''.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
compound of bromine and another metal or radical, 1836, from bromine, the pungent, poisonous element, + -ide. Used as a sedative; figurative sense of "dull, conventional person or trite saying" popularized by U.S. humorist Frank Gelett Burgess (1866-1951) in his book "Are You a Bromide?" (1906). Related: Bromidic.
Wiktionary
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.
WordNet
n. any of the salts of hydrobromic acid; used as a sedative
a trite or obvious remark [syn: platitude, cliche, banality, commonplace]
a sedative in the form of sodium or potassium bromide
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Wikipedia
Bromide can refer to:
In language:
- Bromide (language), a figure of speech meaning a tranquilizing cliché used as a verbal sedative
In chemistry:
- Bromide, the anion of bromine, or any ionic salt containing bromide as the only anion, or (as a common name) any covalent compound containing bromine in the -1 oxidation state.
- Potassium bromide, an anticonvulsant and sedative (most pharmacologic information is here)
- Sodium bromide, an anticonvulsant and sedative
In photography
- Bromide paper, paper coated with an emulsion of silver bromide, used primarily for photographic prints
In Japanese culture
- Bromide (Japanese culture), commercial photographic portraits of celebrities including geisha, singers, actors and sports-people
In geography
- Bromide, Oklahoma, a small village in the southern central part of the state.
- Bromide Basin, a basin in Utah
A bromide is a chemical compound containing a bromide ion or ligand. This is a bromine atom with an ionic charge of −1 (Br); for example, in caesium bromide, caesium cations (Cs) are electrically attracted to bromide anions (Br) to form the electrically neutral ionic compound CsBr. The term "bromide" can also refer to a bromine atom with an oxidation number of −1 in covalent compounds such as sulfur dibromide (SBr).
A bromide is a phrase or platitude whose excessive use suggests insincerity or a lack of originality in the speaker.
The term "bromide" derives from the antiquated use of bromide salts in medicine as mild tranquilizers and sedatives. Administration of a "bromide" (such as the original Bromo-Seltzer before 1975 in the US) would relieve anxiety and make the patient drowsy.
Describing a phrase as a "bromide" is meant humorously to imply that it is a verbal sedative, a boring statement with similar soporific properties.
In 1906, the author Gelett Burgess published a book called Are You a Bromide? in which he referred to boring people as "bromides".
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 of whether bromide paper was actually used for the photograph.
In 1921 the Marubell Company began marketing photographs of celebrities under the name "Promide". The first of these was a portrait of the film actress Sumiko Kurishima. Marubell sold the photographic paper as "bromide", and its finished photographs as "Promide". The two words eventually became synonymous and between the mid-1940s and the late-1980s sales of "bromides" were used to measure the popularity of Japanese idols. Sales records were released on a monthly basis for the following categories: "Male Singers", "Female Singers", "Actors", and "Actresses".
The use of the term "bromide" (or "promide") to refer to a celebrity photograph remains a part of Japanese popular consciousness, and reference books such as the Kōjien Dictionary and NHK's Broadcasting Glossary recognize the term as such. Although the term is gradually falling out of use, it still occasionally appears in Japanese media (including manga, TV shows and video games).
The term is actively used in Korean culture, where it is the name of a K-pop magazine. Based on usage of the term by, for example, sellers of K-pop goods on eBay, "bromide" denotes an oversized photo or mini-poster of a celebrity on card stock with a laminated cover or glossy finish.
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.