In chemistry, a nitride is a chemical compound of nitrogen. Nitrides can be inorganic or organic, ionic or covalent. The nitride anion, N3- ion, is very...

Boron nitride is a thermally and chemically resistant refractory compound of boron and nitrogen with the chemical formula BN. It exists in various crystalline...

Gallium nitride (GaN) is a binary III/V direct bandgap semiconductor commonly used in blue light-emitting diodes since the 1990s. The compound is a very...

Nitriding is a heat treating process that diffuses nitrogen into the surface of a metal to create a case-hardened surface. These processes are most commonly...

Silicon nitride is a chemical compound of the elements silicon and nitrogen. Si 3N 4 (Trisilicon tetranitride) is the most thermodynamically stable and...

ammonia: Sr3N2 + 6 H2O → 3 Sr(OH)2 + 2 NH3 Beryllium nitride Magnesium nitride Calcium nitride Barium nitride Lide, David R., ed. (2009). CRC Handbook of Chemistry...

Aluminium nitride (AlN) is a solid nitride of aluminium. It has a high thermal conductivity of up to 321 W/(m·K) and is an electrical insulator. Its wurtzite...

Magnesium nitride, which possesses the chemical formula Mg3N2, is an inorganic compound of magnesium and nitrogen. At room temperature and pressure it...

Lanthanum nitride is a binary inorganic compound of lanthanum and nitride with the chemical formula LaN. Lanthanum nitride can be prepared from the reaction...

Lithium nitride is an inorganic compound with the chemical formula Li3N. It is the only stable alkali metal nitride. It is a reddish-pink solid with a...

Cadmium nitride is a nitride of cadmium with the chemical formula Cd3N2. Cadmium nitride can be produced by thermal decomposition of cadmium amide at 180 °C:...

Calcium nitride is the inorganic compound with the chemical formula Ca3N2. It exists in various forms (isomorphs), α-calcium nitride being more commonly...

electrochemical synthesis mode involves the reductive formation of lithium nitride, which can be protonated to ammonia, given a proton source, which can be...

Titanium nitride (TiN; sometimes known as tinite) is an extremely hard ceramic material, often used as a physical vapor deposition (PVD) coating on titanium...

Arsenide nitrides or nitride arsenides are compounds containing anions composed of nitride (N3−) and arsenide (As3−). They can be considered as mixed...

Americium nitride is a binary inorganic compound of americium and nitride with the chemical formula AmN. Americium can be obtained from the reaction of...

Thulium nitride is a binary inorganic compound of thulium and nitrogen with the chemical formula TmN. It can be prepared by reacting thulium amalgam with...

Sodium nitride is the inorganic compound with the chemical formula Na3N. In contrast to lithium nitride and some other nitrides, sodium nitride is an extremely...

Tungsten nitride (W2N, WN, WN2) is an inorganic compound, a nitride of tungsten. It is a hard, solid, brown-colored ceramic material that is electrically...

The metal–nitride–oxide–semiconductor or metal–nitride–oxide–silicon (MNOS) transistor is a type of MOSFET (metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistor)...

Hydrogen cyanide (formerly known as prussic acid) is a chemical compound with the formula HCN and structural formula H−C≡N. It is a highly toxic and flammable...

Boron nitride nanotubes (BNNTs) are a polymorph of boron nitride. They were predicted in 1994 and experimentally discovered in 1995. Structurally they...

Vanadium nitride, VN, is a chemical compound of vanadium and nitrogen. Vanadium nitride is formed during the nitriding of steel and increases wear resistance...

Yttrium nitride, YN, is a nitride of yttrium. Yttrium nitride is hard ceramic material similar to titanium nitride and zirconium nitride. The nitrides of lanthanum...

Dypsrosium nitride is a binary inorganic compound of dysprosium and nitride with the chemical formula DyN. Dysprosium can be prepared from the reaction...

Erbium nitride is a binary inorganic compound of erbium and nitrogen with the chemical formula ErN. The compound forms black powder. Chemically, ErN is...

Plutonium nitride is a binary inorganic compound of plutonium and nitrogen with the chemical formula PuN. Plutonium nitride can be prepared by the reaction...

Gallium nitride nanotubes (GaNNTs) are nanotubes of gallium nitride. They can be grown by chemical vapour deposition (diameters of 30–250 nm). Single...

Holmium nitride is a binary inorganic compound of holmium and nitrogen with the chemical formula HoN. Reaction of finely ground metal, its hydride, or...

Molybdenum nitride (Mo2N) is a binary inorganic compound composed of molybdenum and nitrogen. It belongs to the family of transition metal nitrides and exhibits...