Protide, deuteride and tritide are used to describe ions or compounds that contain enriched hydrogen-1, deuterium or tritium, respectively.
In the classic meaning, hydride refers to any compound hydrogen forms with other elements, ranging over groups 1–16 (the binary compounds of hydrogen). The following is a list of the nomenclature for the hydride derivatives of main group compounds according to this definition:
*alkali and alkaline earth metals: metal hydride
*boron: borane, BH
*aluminium: alumane, AlH
*gallium: gallane, GaH
*indium: indigane, InH
*thallium: thallane, TlH
*carbon: alkanes, alkenes, alkynes, and all hydrocarbons
*silicon: silane
*germanium: germane
*tin: stannane
*lead: plumbane
*nitrogen: ammonia ("azane" when substituted), hydrazine
*phosphorus: phosphine (note "phosphane" is the IUPAC recommended name)
*arsenic: arsine (note "arsane" is the IUPAC recommended name)
*antimony: stibine (note "stibane" is the IUPAC recommended name)
*bismuth: bismuthine (note "bismuthane" is the IUPAC recommended name)
*helium: helium hydride (only exists as an ion)
According to the convention above, the following are "hydrogen compounds" and not "hydrides":
*oxygen: water ("oxidane" when substituted; synonym: hydrogen oxide), hydrogen peroxide
*sulfur: hydrogen sulfide ("sulfane" when substituted)
*selenium: hydrogen selenide ("selane" when substituted)
*tellurium: hydrogen telluride ("tellane" when substituted)
*polonium: hydrogen polonide ("polane" when substituted)
*halogens: hydrogen halides
Examples:
*nickel hydride: used in NiMH batteries
*palladium hydride: electrodes in cold fusion experiments
*lithium aluminium hydride: a powerful reducing agent used in organic chemistry
*sodium borohydride: selective specialty reducing agent, hydrogen storage in fuel cells
*sodium hydride: a powerful base used in organic chemistry
*diborane: reducing agent, rocket fuel, semiconductor dopant, catalyst, used in organic synthesis; also borane, pentaborane and decaborane
*arsine: used for doping semiconductors
*stibine: used in semiconductor industry
*phosphine: used for fumigation
*silane: many industrial uses, e.g. manufacture of composite materials and water repellents
*ammonia: coolant, fuel, fertilizer, many other industrial uses
*hydrogen sulfide: component of natural gas, important source of sulfur
*Chemically, even water and hydrocarbons could be considered hydrides.
All metalloid hydrides are highly flammable. All solid non-metallic hydrides except ice are highly flammable. But when hydrogen combines with halogens it produces acids rather than hydrides, and they are not flammable.