Word Meanings - CHLORIODINE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A compound of chlorine and iodine.

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• CHLORINE
  One of the elementary substances, commonly isolated as a greenish yellow gas, two and one half times as heavy as air, of an intensely disagreeable suffocating odor, and exceedingly poisonous. It is abundant in nature, the most important compound
• COMPOUNDER
  A Jacobite who favored the restoration of James II, on condition of a general amnesty and of guarantees for the security of the civil and ecclesiastical constitution of the realm. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, compounds or mixes; as, a
• COMPOUNDABLE
  That may be compounded.
• COMPOUND CONTROL
  A system of control in which a separate manipulation, as of a rudder, may be effected by either of two movements, in different directions, of a single lever, etc.
• IODINE
  A nonmetallic element, of the halogen group, occurring always in combination, as in the iodides. When isolated it is in the form of dark gray metallic scales, resembling plumbago, soft but brittle, and emitting a chlorinelike odor. Symbol I. Atomic
• COMPOUND
  In the East Indies, an inclosure containing a house, outbuildings, etc.
• SUPRADECOMPOUND
  More than decompound; divided many times.
• CHLORIODINE
  A compound of chlorine and iodine.
• FELONY; TO COMPOUND A FELONY
  . See under Compound, v. t.
• DECOMPOUNDABLE
  Capable of being decompounded.
• EUCHLORINE
  A yellow or greenish yellow gas, first prepared by Davy, evolved from potassium chlorate and hydrochloric acid. It is supposed to consist of chlorine tetroxide with some free chlorine.
• DECOMPOUND
  1. To compound or mix with that is already compound; to compound a second time. 2. To reduce to constituent parts; to decompose. It divides and decompounds objects into . . . parts. Hazlitt.