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PRONUNCIATION OF SILVER IODIDE

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SILVER IODIDE

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Silver iodide is a noun.
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WHAT DOES SILVER IODIDE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

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Silver iodide

Silver iodide is an inorganic compound with the formula AgI. The compound is a bright yellow solid, but samples almost always contain impurities of metallic silver that give a gray coloration. The silver contamination arises because AgI is highly photosensitive. This property is exploited in silver-based photography. Silver iodide is also used as an antiseptic and in cloud seeding.

Definition of silver iodide in the English dictionary

The definition of silver iodide in the dictionary is a yellow insoluble powder that darkens on exposure to light: used in photography and artificial rainmaking. Formula: AgI.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SILVER IODIDE

silver chloride
silver collection
silver disc
silver fern
Silver Ferns
silver fir
silver foil
silver fox
silver frost
silver goal
silver jubilee
silver lining
silver maple
silver medal
silver medallist
silver nitrate
silver orfe
silver paper
silver plate
silver polish

WORDS THAT END LIKE SILVER IODIDE

aide
at the outside
decide
guide
hide
hydrogen iodide
inside
iodide
on one side
on the side
outside
periodide
pride
provide
ride
side
slide
to the wide
toluidide
wide

Synonyms and antonyms of silver iodide in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «silver iodide» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SILVER IODIDE

Find out the translation of silver iodide to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of silver iodide from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «silver iodide» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

碘化银
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

yoduro de plata
570 millions of speakers

English

silver iodide
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

सिल्वर आयोडाइड
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

يوديد الفضة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

йодистого серебра
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

iodeto de prata
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

রূপালী আইওডাইড
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

l´iodure d´argent
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Iodida perak
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Silberjodid
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ヨウ化銀
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

실버 요오드화
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Iodida perak
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

bạc iodide
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

வெள்ளி ஐயாய்டு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

चांदी आयोडाइड
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Gümüş iyodür
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

ioduro d´argento
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

jodek srebra
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

йодистого срібла
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

iodura de argint
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ιωδιούχο άργυρο
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

silwer jodied
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

silverjodid
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

sølvjodid
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of silver iodide

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SILVER IODIDE»

The term «silver iodide» is normally little used and occupies the 121.187 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SILVER IODIDE» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about silver iodide

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SILVER IODIDE»

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Physical Chemistry: Understanding our Chemical World
Why is silver iodide yellow? Mixed bonding Silver chloride is white; silver bromide is pale yellow; and silver iodide has a rich yellow colour. We might first think that the change in colour was due to AgI incorporating the iodide anion, yet NaI or ...
Paul M. S. Monk, 2008
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The Daguerreotype: Nineteenth-Century Technology and Modern ...
the result of interference, scattering, or absorption phenomena. He measured the total reflectance of silver iodide layers of known thickness on daguerreotype plates in the visible and near infrared regions of the spectrum (fig. 7.6). The mimma ...
M. Susan Barger, William B. White, 2000
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Water Chlorination: Chemistry, Environmental Impact and ...
The counter electrode (platinum wire) and the saturated calomel reference electrode are positioned 3-4 cm downstream of the working electrode. Silver iodide electrodes were prepared by first precipitating silver iodide from 0.03 M potassium ...
Jolley, 1990
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Colloid Science
Silver Iodide. — An inorganic material frequently used for the preparation of colloidal dispersions is silver iodide, and a method for the preparation of silver iodide sols which allows a variation of particle size has been reported by Volkova et ...
D. H. Everett, 1973
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Surfactants and Interfacial Phenomena
(1975) 4 (I.S. = 1 X 10'3 M) 20 i 2 2.66 Osseo-Asare et al. (1975) 5 (I.S. = 1 X 10'3 M) 20 i 2 3.10 Osseo-Asare et al. (1975) Sodium octanesulfonate Silver iodide 3 ( I.S. : 1 X 10'3 M) 20 i 2 2.60 Osseo-Asare et al. (1975) 4 (I.S. = 1 X 10'3 M) 20 i ...
Milton J. Rosen, Joy T. Kunjappu, 2012
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Weather modification by cloud seeding
The most advanced technology that has developed in connection with cloud seeding agents is the generation of large numbers of silver iodide (Agl) particles for artificial cloud glaciation. Clouds can be glaciated, as we have seen, by intense ...
Dennis, 1980
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Silver-halide recording materials for holography and their ...
Hariharan and Ramanathan [5.118] found also that silver iodide is the most stable of the three silver halides. They suggested that holograms should be bleached directly to form silver iodide, or alternatively, that already bleached holograms ...
Hans I. Bjelkhagen, 1995
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Guidelines for Cloud Seeding to Augment Precipitation
Similar studies of naturally occurring freezing nuclei exhibit this same characteristic with even fewer active nuclei in the regions warmer than — 10°C. Note the relative increase in effectiveness of silver iodide-ammonium iodide mixtures over ...
Conrad G. Keyes, 2006
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Silver in Healthcare: Its Antimicrobial Efficacy and Safety ...
The experimental practice of ''seeding clouds with silver iodide to promote rainfall '' poses a potential hazard but the true risk to human and animal populations is not fully appreciated.66,67 Silver iodide has a very low solubility in water.
Alan B. G. Lansdown, 2010
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Bureau of Standards journal of research
The acceleration of development by bathing in solutions of soluble iodide, with partial conversion of the silver bromide to silver iodide, has been known for a long time. The results are discussed at length by Luppo-Cramer.26 His hypothesis of ...
United States. National Bureau of Standards, 1929

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SILVER IODIDE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term silver iodide is used in the context of the following news items.
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Arizona State to tackle global warming by spraying sky with silver
Arizona is leading the way with plans to create artificial rain clouds by flying planes over the Rockies and seeding the sky with silver iodide. They hope the ... «Daily Mail, Apr 15»
2
Enhancing the clouds: A solution to Arizona's water challenges?
“Typically the seeding of the clouds are done by ground-based generators, propane burners that burn (silver iodide) to aerosolize it, and aircraft seeding, flares ... «Cronkite News, Apr 15»
3
Boom Time in the Vineyards
He's also skeptical of an alternative technology that shoots silver iodide into clouds to create smaller hailstones that will melt as they fall. That practice didn't ... «Bloomberg, Mar 15»
4
Company guarantees a rain-free wedding day with cloud-seeding …
The day before the event, a pilot flies over the site of any identified rainclouds, spraying silver iodide into the air, which attracts moisture in the cloud, turning the ... «Stuff.co.nz, Mar 15»
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$150000 cloud-bursting service guarantees sunny wedding weather
The service requires three weeks of planning involving meteorologists and pilots skilled with using silver iodide to seed the clouds to prompt the rain. «CNET, Feb 15»
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If You Want a 100% Sunny Wedding Day You Can Pay $150k to …
Cloud-seeding with silver iodide is used in Canada to shrink hail storms as they happen. In China, making artificial rain this way is a fairly common practice, and ... «Gizmodo, Jan 15»
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Oliver's Travels offers 'cloud bursting' service to banish rain for …
This involved firing rockets packed with silver iodide crystals into rain clouds over the suburbs of Beijing. It was also reportedly used by Paul McCartney at one of ... «Daily Mail, Jan 15»
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Meteorology: Sowing the seeds of weather control?
Seeding with tiny crystals of silver iodide provides nuclei for snowflakes to form within ... Levels of silver in the snowpack, soil and meltwater were not increased ... «Financial Times, Jan 15»
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Biggest Cloud-Seeding Experiment Yet Only Sparks More Debate
Researchers found that seeding clouds with droplets of silver iodide does slightly increase precipitation, boosting levels by 5 to 15 percent. However, experts ... «Yahoo News, Dec 14»
10
Cloud seeding used to boost snowpack
The torch burns silver iodide, which drifts up in tiny particles to seed the clouds. The particles attract water droplets in the cloud and effectively “teaches” them ... «Washington Times, Dec 14»

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