calcium hydride

1. 1.

   a saltlike binary compound (CaH2) used as a reducing agent and source of hydrogen

   Synonymshydrolith

   Broaderhydride

Questions about calcium hydride

What does calcium hydride mean?

calcium hydride means "a saltlike binary compound (CaH2) used as a reducing agent and source of hydrogen".

What is another word for calcium hydride?

Close synonyms include hydrolith. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is calcium hydride a common word?

calcium hydride is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.