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tetrachloride

n. (context chemistry English) any chloride containing four chlorine atoms in each molecule

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tetrachloride

n. any compound that contains four chlorine atoms per molecule

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Tetrachloride

tetrachloride may refer to:

  • Carbon tetrachloride, CCl, also known as carbon tet
  • Germanium tetrachloride, GeCl, a colourless liquid used as an intermediate in the production of purified germanium metal
  • Molybdenum tetrachloride, MoCl
  • Selenium tetrachloride, SeCl
  • Silicon tetrachloride, SiCl
  • Tellurium tetrachloride, TeCl
  • Titanium tetrachloride, TiCl
  • Uranium tetrachloride, UCl, a dark green compound of uranium
  • Vanadium tetrachloride, VCl, a bright red liquid and starting reagent in the preparation of vanadium compounds
  • Zirconium tetrachloride, ZrCl, an intermediate in the conversion of zirconium minerals to metallic zirconium by the Kroll process.
  • Lead tetrachloride, PbCl
  • Tin(IV) chloride, SnCl, also known as tin tetrachloride or stannic chloride.

Usage examples of "tetrachloride".

The air was thick with oxides of nitrogen and sulfur, carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide and carbon tetrachloride, a mixture of industrial wastes that Svetz had been breathing since the day he was born.

The smell of burning was still acrid and the faint stench of the tetrachloride pricked his nostrils.

She dodged past fifty-five gallon drums of carbon tetrachloride and dimethyl sulfate and burst through the rear door of the shop into an alley.

There was no skin dye that would stand up dependably under weather, wear, strong soaps and the gasoline or tetrachloride which pipeline workers used to get grease off their hands.

They yielded quickly to the stream of carbon tetrachloride from the extinguisher.

Mrs Kovac not only inhales more carbon tetrachloride than is good for her, but is lucky to get six hours sleep a night, and her efficiency and her temper suffer as a result, as is the case with Doralee.

Blame the carbon tetrachloride, for making her head achey and her breath sour.

I poured all the carbon tetrachloride down the sink and kicked their piles of mending stuff around and tangled their embroidery threads.

The second principle which underlies all the most recent methods for extracting the grease from the wool, consists in treating the fibre with some solvent like benzol, carbon bisulphide, petroleum spirit, carbon tetrachloride, etc.

The carbon tetrachloride comes in here, the uranium nitrate from here comes in here, it goes up and down, it goes up through the floor, comes up through the pipes, coming up from the second floor, bluuuuurp -- going through the stack of blueprints, down-up-down-up, talking very fast, explaining the very, very complicated chemical plant.

Behind her were shelves of gas masks and medicines: bleach ointments, clouded glass bottles of petrol, methylated spirits, kerosene, liquid paraffin, and carbon tetrachloride.

The only chemical signals on the entire case were the strong contending odors of detergent, methyl alcohol, acetone, and carbon tetrachloride.

Ellsworth Welch, who taught me to dip my hands in titanium tetrachloride.

But also there’s lesser amounts of toluene, as well as some trichloroethylene and carbon tetrachloride.