How to Use hydride in a Sentence

hydride

noun
  • This battery runs on hydride ions — hydrogen atoms packed with an extra electron.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 15 May 2026
  • One promising class of materials, known as hydrides, emerged in recent years.
    — Quanta Magazine, 8 Mar. 2023
  • And instead of nickel metal hydride, the traction battery is now lithium-ion, which is smaller and lighter.
    — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 5 May 2023
  • Only when helium hydride started forming could the universe cool down and expand.
    — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 18 Apr. 2019
  • This new finding of how helium hydride ions function challenges how physicists think stars formed in the early universe.
    — Perri Thaler, Space.com, 16 Aug. 2025
  • Once the uranium can no longer hold the gas, the two materials combine to form a new compound called uranium hydride.
    — Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 31 May 2026
  • If enough hydrogen is added, a hydride may even become superconducting.
    — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 6 Sep. 2019
  • In the experiment, six of these quibits were used to map the energy states of the six electrons in the beryllium hydride molecule.
    — Jeremy Kahn, Bloomberg.com, 13 Sep. 2017
  • The automaker swapped an older nickel-metal-hydride battery for a smaller, lighter lithium-ion battery.
    — Dallas News, 16 Nov. 2022
  • Toyota still uses nickel-metal hydride batteries rather than the more expensive lithium-ion cells.
    — Mark Maynard, sandiegouniontribune.com, 7 July 2017
  • As molecules go, beryllium hydride is puny—just two hydrogen atoms tacked onto a single beryllium atom.
    — Gabriel Popkin, Science | AAAS, 13 Sep. 2017
  • Lanthanum hydrides have glittered at the front of the superconductor stage since 2020.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 8 July 2024
  • It can be driven at low speeds for short distances on battery power from 37 kWh nickel metal hydride hybrid battery.
    — Mark Maynard, sandiegouniontribune.com, 6 Apr. 2018
  • And the hybrid model was updated with a lithium-ion battery pack, replacing nickel-metal hydride.
    — Mark Maynard, sandiegouniontribune.com, 15 May 2018
  • This work reflects what would happen to most rechargeable batteries, such as lithium-ion, nickel-metal-hydride, or lead-acid, for example.
    — Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics, 13 May 2022
  • Before the lithium-ion battery became ubiquitous, the nickel metal hydride battery was the rechargeable battery of choice.
    — WIRED, 27 Oct. 2023
  • Hydrogen is key to the new material’s superconducting ability and to that of any hydride.
    — Sophie Bushwick, Scientific American, 10 Mar. 2023
  • Those two versions retain a nickel-metal-hydride battery pack, while the LE switches to a lighter, more powerful lithium-ion unit.
    — Joe Lorio, Car and Driver, 22 June 2017
  • Unfortunately, its beefy 288-volt nickel-metal hydride battery eats up all of the cargo space under the folding rear seat.
    — Austin Irwin, Car and Driver, 12 July 2023
  • All Prii now use a lithium-ion battery pack that’s mounted under the rear seat; the old nickel-metal-hydride pack that was still found in certain versions of the outgoing car is gone.
    — Joey Capparella, Car and Driver, 16 Nov. 2022
  • The scientists claimed that the novel design allows for efficient hydride ion conduction at room temperature.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 19 Sep. 2025
  • In another, a mix of hydrogen and lanthanum were squeezed together to form a lanthanum hydride, which contained lots of hydrogen within its crystal structure.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 14 Oct. 2020
  • Last month, the 5,800 pounds of nickel hydride batteries finally plummeted back to Earth.
    — Michael Kan, PCMAG, 16 Apr. 2024
  • It can be converted into a metal hydride, but this process, which involves mixing it with stable isotopes, decreases its energy density.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 25 Aug. 2025
  • According to the researchers, a helium hydride ion — or HeH+ — became the first ever molecule.
    — Perri Thaler, Space.com, 16 Aug. 2025
  • The debris came from a pallet released from the ISS containing aging nickel hydride batteries.
    — Joe Hindy, PCMAG, 24 June 2024
  • Both helium hydride ions and molecular hydrogen were critical to the development of the first stars hundreds of millions of years later, the researchers said.
    — Perri Thaler, Space.com, 16 Aug. 2025
  • The amount of helium hydride ions in the universe may therefore have had significant bearing on the speed and efficacy of early star formation, the researchers said in a statement.
    — Perri Thaler, Space.com, 16 Aug. 2025
  • Though naturally occurring helium hydride has never been found on Earth, scientists were able to force the two atoms together in the lab almost a century ago.
    — Ken Croswell, Discover Magazine, 12 Dec. 2019
  • Today’s lithium-ion batteries are a big improvement over early lead-acid, nickel-cadmium and nickel-metal hydride technologies.
    — Paul A. Eisenstein, NBC News, 1 Jan. 2018

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