noun
definition
A compound of nitrogen where nitrogen has an oxidation state of −3.
Examples of nitrides in a Sentence
It combines directly with lithium, calcium and magnesium when heated, whilst nitrides of the rare earth metals are also produced when their oxides are mixed with magnesium and heated in a current of nitrogen (C. Matignon, Comptes rendus, 1900, 131, p. 837).
Several nitrides have been described.
Tantalum forms a sulphide, TaS 2, and two nitrides, TaN 2 and Ta3N5, have been described.
The formation of nitrides and cyanamides by actions of this kind and their easy conversion into ammonia is a useful method for fixing the nitrogen of the atmosphere and rendering it available for manurial purposes.
Nitrides, Nitrates, Several nitrides are known.
These include the nitrides, halides, oxides and hydrides.