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Resembling salt; - said of certain binary compounds consisting of a metal united to a negative element or radical, and now chiefly applied to the chlorides, bromides, iodides, and sometimes also to the fluorides and cyanides.

Resembling salt; - said of certain binary compounds consisting of a metal united to a negative element or radical, and now chiefly applied to the chlorides, bromides, iodides, and sometimes also to the fluorides and cyanides.

1. Resembling common salt; noting a salt composed of a base and a halogen, such as sodium chloride.

The salts of halogenous bodies. See Halogen.

In composition resembling common salt. Haloid salt, the compound of a metal with chlorine, iodine, or the like.

Belonging to or derived from the halogens. [Gr.]