: a binary compound of a halogen with a more electropositive element or radical
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The Superdome now uses LED lights in place of the metal halide lights that added to the overall outage delay time in 2013.
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Eric Jackson, Sportico.com, 3 Feb. 2025
Their process involved taking molecules called silyl (pseudo) halides and treating them with a source of fluoride, removing elements from the former leave an anti-Bredt olefin behind.
—Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2024
Well, there are two major types of HID lights: metal halide (MT) and high pressure sodium (HPS).
—Anna Miller, Sacramento Bee, 26 Apr. 2024
Some are looking at the cutting edge materials used in photovoltaics, such as halide perovskites.
—IEEE Spectrum, 5 Apr. 2017
Perovskites, a rapidly growing area of photovoltaic research, are a hybrid of organic compounds, metals, and halides, with crystal structures mirroring those of the mineral calcium titanium oxide.
—IEEE Spectrum, 20 May 2020
The lights have replaced the original metal-halide lighting system on eight light towers spaced around Victory Field.
—Evan Frank, The Indianapolis Star, 29 Mar. 2023
The cloned cuttings are grown in a proprietary mix of soil and peat, initially in three-gallon containers under metal halide lights that shine for 18 hours a day and produce a blue-spectrum light mimicking spring-time sunshine.
—Mark Pazniokas, courant.com, 22 Feb. 2021
The alkyne-azide bond was superefficient and left the original target, the acyl halide, largely untouched.
—Bydaniel Clery, science.org, 4 Oct. 2022
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Eric Jackson, Sportico.com, 3 Feb. 2025
Their process involved taking molecules called silyl (pseudo) halides and treating them with a source of fluoride, removing elements from the former leave an anti-Bredt olefin behind.
—Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2024
Well, there are two major types of HID lights: metal halide (MT) and high pressure sodium (HPS).
—Anna Miller, Sacramento Bee, 26 Apr. 2024
Some are looking at the cutting edge materials used in photovoltaics, such as halide perovskites.
—IEEE Spectrum, 5 Apr. 2017
Perovskites, a rapidly growing area of photovoltaic research, are a hybrid of organic compounds, metals, and halides, with crystal structures mirroring those of the mineral calcium titanium oxide.
—IEEE Spectrum, 20 May 2020
The lights have replaced the original metal-halide lighting system on eight light towers spaced around Victory Field.
—Evan Frank, The Indianapolis Star, 29 Mar. 2023
The cloned cuttings are grown in a proprietary mix of soil and peat, initially in three-gallon containers under metal halide lights that shine for 18 hours a day and produce a blue-spectrum light mimicking spring-time sunshine.
—Mark Pazniokas, courant.com, 22 Feb. 2021
The alkyne-azide bond was superefficient and left the original target, the acyl halide, largely untouched.
—Bydaniel Clery, science.org, 4 Oct. 2022
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“Halide.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/halide. Accessed 12 Feb. 2025.
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