Nitride is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.
You can make 144 anagrams from letters in nitride (deiinrt).
1840-50; nitr- + -ide
It blackens in the air, forming a nitride, and decomposes water.
It rapidly alters on exposure to the air, probably forming a nitride.
A nitride appears to be formed when nitrogen is passed over heated iron, since the metal is rendered brittle.
It combines directly with nitrogen, when heated in the gas, to form the nitride Mg3N2 (see Argon).
When free from nitride it is silver-white in color, and has a brilliant surface.
After fusion, the melt is well washed with dilute hydrochloric acid and then with water, the nitride remaining as a white powder.