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hydride

Chemical compound containing hydrogen and one other element, and in which the hydrogen is the more electronegative element (see electronegativity).

Hydrides of the more reactive metals may be ionic compounds containing a hydride anion (H).



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Louis Schlapbach, a physicist at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland, calls Griessen's original experiment "a clever idea, which proves that the [current] theory of metal-to-nonmetal transition in rare earth hydrides is correct.
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