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arsenide
noun
ar·se·nide
ˈär-sə-ˌnīd
: a binary compound of arsenic with a more electropositive element
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Future research can investigate why helical magnets such as manganese phosphide and chromium arsenide can become superconducting while other helical magnets such as manganese silicide do not, even when high pressure suppresses their magnetism, the investigators said.
—IEEE Spectrum, 12 Mar. 2015
The team's device, which produces these particles just in pairs, is a indium arsenide quantum dot connected to a little LED.
—Andrew Moseman, Discover Magazine, 19 Nov. 2019
Physicist Tony Kent and his colleagues at the University of Nottingham in England managed to create such an amplifier from a thin, layered lattice made of two semiconductors, gallium arsenide and aluminum arsenide.
—Laurie Rich, Discover Magazine, 26 Sep. 2010
To test those predictions, Hu and his colleagues placed a tiny piece of boron arsenide less than 100 microns thick in the gap between two diamonds.
—Rachel Nuwer, Scientific American, 14 Mar. 2023
Physicist Tony Kent and his colleagues at the University of Nottingham in England managed to create such an amplifier from a thin, layered lattice made of two semiconductors, gallium arsenide and aluminum arsenide.
—Laurie Rich, Discover Magazine, 26 Sep. 2010
But there’s still a long way to go until cubic boron arsenide can be used outside of the lab.
—Nicholas Gordon, Fortune, 16 Aug. 2022
According to the July study, cubic boron arsenide conducts heat ten times better than silicon.
—Nicholas Gordon, Fortune, 16 Aug. 2022
The materials the company is using are relatively unusual: aluminum as the superconducting wire and indium arsenide as the semiconductor that surrounds it.
—John Timmer, Ars Technica, 15 Mar. 2022
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Word History
Etymology
borrowed from German Arsenid, from Arsen arsenic entry 1 + -id -ide
First Known Use
1799, in the meaning defined above
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“Arsenide.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/arsenide. Accessed 8 Nov. 2024.
Medical Definition
arsenide
noun
ar·se·nide
ˈärs-ᵊn-ˌīd
: a binary compound of arsenic with a more positive element
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