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hydride
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hy·dride (hdrd)
n.
A compound of hydrogen with another, more electropositive element or group.


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Louis Schlapbach, a physicist at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland, calls Griessen's original experiment "a clever idea, which proves that the [current] theory of metal-to-nonmetal transition in rare earth hydrides is correct.
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