hydrogen azide

1. 1.

   a colorless explosive liquid that is volatile and poisonous and foul-smelling

   Synonymshydrazoic acidazoimideHN

   Broaderhydrideexplosive

Questions about hydrogen azide

What does hydrogen azide mean?

hydrogen azide means "a colorless explosive liquid that is volatile and poisonous and foul-smelling".

What is another word for hydrogen azide?

Close synonyms include hydrazoic acid, azoimide, HN. 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 hydrogen azide a common word?

hydrogen azide 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.