hydrogen iodide

1. 1.

   a colorless gas that yields hydroiodic acid in aqueous solution

   Broaderiodide

Questions about hydrogen iodide

What does hydrogen iodide mean?

hydrogen iodide means "a colorless gas that yields hydroiodic acid in aqueous solution".

Is hydrogen iodide a common word?

hydrogen iodide 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.