silver iodide

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   an iodide that is used in photography, in seeding clouds to make rain, and in medicine

   Broaderiodide

Questions about silver iodide

What does silver iodide mean?

silver iodide means "an iodide that is used in photography, in seeding clouds to make rain, and in medicine".

Is silver iodide a common word?

silver 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.