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hydroxide
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hydroxide /hy·drox·ide/ (hi-drok´sīd) any compound containing a hydroxyl group.
hy·drox·ide (h-drksd)
n.
A chemical compound containing the hydroxyl group, especially one that releases a hydroxyl group when dissolved.

hydroxide (OH-)
[hīdrok′sīd]
an ion.

hydroxide (hīdrok´sīd´),
n an ionic compound that contains the OH2 ion, usually consisting of metals or the metal equivalent of the ammonium cation (NH42) that inactivates an acid.

hydroxide
the OH anion or a compound containing the OH ion.


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APPLICATION: The concentrations of hydroxide ion and hydrogen sulfide ion in a birch kraft cook have an impact on the results of ECF bleaching.
Since the hydroxide ion looks like a water molecule missing a proton, chemists had assumed it behaved in a corresponding way, but one that takes the ion's negative charge into account.
 
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