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Bromide   /brˈoʊmˌaɪd/   Listen
noun
Bromide  n.  
1.
(Chem.) A compound of bromine with a positive radical.
2.
A person who is conventional and commonplace in his habits of thought and conversation. (Slang) "The bromide conforms to everything sanctioned by the majority, and may be depended upon to be trite, banal, and arbitrary."
3.
A conventional or trite saying; often used in the phrase "old bromide".






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... is prepared by reducing chromic chloride in hydrogen; it forms white silky needles, which dissolve in water giving a deep blue solution, which rapidly absorbs oxygen, forming basic chromic salts, and acts as a very strong reducing agent. The bromide and iodide are formed in a similar manner by heating the metal in gaseous hydrobromic ...
— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 - "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" • Various

... "exhibited," as the phrase went; and, if the dose was not immediately successful, the brandy was increased. I myself, when a sickly boy of twelve, was ordered by a well-known practitioner, called F. C. Skey, to drink mulled claret at bedtime; and my recollection is that, as a nightcap, it beat bromide and sulphonal hollow. In the light of more recent science, I suppose that all this alcoholic treatment was what Milton calls "the sweet poyson of misused wine," and wrought havoc with one's nerves, digestion, and circulation. ...
— Fifteen Chapters of Autobiography • George William Erskine Russell

... inflection. : Potassium iodide, a slight and doubtful amount of inflection. Sodium bromide, moderately rapid inflection. : Potassium bromide. Potassium oxalate, slow and doubtful inflection. : Lithium nitrate, moderately rapid inflection. : Lithium acetate. Caesium chloride, rather slow inflection. : Rubidium chloride. ...
— Insectivorous Plants • Charles Darwin

... uncomfortable feeling in the head, and pain in the back, mental hebetude, and slight depression. The nisus generativus is greatly increased, and he says that, if in that condition, he has full and free seminal emissions during sleep, the excitement passes off; if not, it goes on. A full dose of bromide or iodide of potassium often, but not always, has the effect of stopping the excitement, and a very long walk sometimes does the same. When the excitement gets to a height, it is always followed by about a week of stupid depression." In the same ...
— Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 1 (of 6) • Havelock Ellis

... in the Pharmacopoeia has been tried, the drugs now generally used being sodium, potassium and ammonium bromide. ...
— Epilepsy, Hysteria, and Neurasthenia • Isaac G. Briggs


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