We found 3 definitions of halides from 2 different sources.
NounPlural: halides |
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halide - a salt of any halogen acid | ||
salt the taste experience when common salt is taken into the mouth | ||
bromide any of the salts of hydrobromic acid; formerly used as a sedative but now generally replaced by safer drugs | ||
fluoride a salt of hydrofluoric acid | ||
iodide a salt or ester of hydriodic acid | ||
chloride any salt of hydrochloric acid (containing the chloride ion) |