Nitrides is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.
You can make 305 anagrams from letters in nitrides (deiinrst).
1840-50; nitr- + -ide
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.
It rapidly alters on exposure to the air, probably forming a nitride.
It combines directly with nitrogen, when heated in the gas, to form the nitride Mg3N2 (see Argon).
It blackens in the air, forming a nitride, and decomposes water.
A nitride appears to be formed when nitrogen is passed over heated iron, since the metal is rendered brittle.