Nido may refer to: *

Nido (brand) Nido is a milk substitute powder and milk powder brand manufactured by Nestlé. It was introduced in 1944 in Switzerland. The range claims to offer "nutrition solutions for each stage of childhood". Overview The different varieties include inst ...

, a brand of powdered milks * Nido Creek, a creek in British Columbia, Canada *

Nido Formation The Nido Formation is a stratigraphic unit of Neogene age in northwestern British Columbia, Canada. Name The Nido Formation takes its name from Nido Creek, a stream flowing northeast from the eastern flank of Mount Edziza into Nuttlude Lake. Nid ...

, a geological formation in British Columbia, Canada

People with the name

* Alberto A. Nido (1919–1991), American Air Force officer * Miguel Nido (born 1963), Puerto Rican tennis player *

Tomás Nido Tomás Enrique Nido Vicéns (born April 12, 1994) is a Puerto Rican professional baseball catcher in the Detroit Tigers organization. He has previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Mets and Chicago Cubs. He made his MLB ...

(born 1994), Puerto Rican baseball player *

Nido Pavitra Nido Pavitra is a Congress Party MLA and Parliamentary Secretary in the Health and Family Welfare Department of Arunachal Pradesh, India India, officially the Republic of India, is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countrie ...

, Indian politician * Nido Qubein (born 1948), American Lebanese-Jordanian businessman and motivational speaker * Nido Taniam (1990s–2014), Indian student and murder victim

Chemistry

* Nido cluster, a type of deltahedral

atom cluster Nanoclusters are atomically precise, crystalline materials most often existing on the 0-2 nanometer scale. They are often considered kinetically stable intermediates that form during the synthesis of comparatively larger materials such as semic ...

where one vertex is missing. The descriptor ''nido''- is typically applied

boranes A borane is a compound with the formula although examples include multi-boron derivatives. A large family of boron hydride clusters is also known. In addition to some applications in organic chemistry, the boranes have attracted much attention ...

, derivatives such as

carborane Carboranes (or carbaboranes) are electron-delocalized (non-classically bonded) clusters composed of boron, carbon and hydrogen atoms.Grimes, R. N., ''Carboranes 3rd Ed.'', Elsevier, Amsterdam and New York (2016), . Like many of the related boron ...

s, and deltahedral

metal cluster compound Metal cluster compounds are a molecular ion or neutral compound composed of three or more metals and featuring significant metal-metal interactions. Transition metal carbonyl clusters The development of metal carbonyl clusters such as Ni(CO)4 a ...

s such as

stannide A stannide can refer to an intermetallic compound containing tin combined with one or more other metals; an anion consisting solely of tin atoms or a compound containing such an anion, or, in the field of organometallic chemistry an ionic compound ...

plumbide Plumbide is an anion of lead atoms. There are three plumbide anions, written as Pb−, Pb2− and Pb4− with 3 oxidation states, −1, −2 and −4, respectively. A plumbide can refer to one of two things: an intermetallic compound that contain ...

s and

bismuth polycations Bismuth polycations are polyatomic ions of the formula . They were originally observed in solutions of bismuth metal in molten bismuth chloride. It has since been found that these clusters are present in the solid state, particularly in salts wher ...

. The term is usually used in the context of

polyhedral skeletal electron pair theory In chemistry the polyhedral skeletal electron pair theory (PSEPT) provides electron counting rules useful for predicting the structures of clusters such as borane and carborane clusters. The electron counting rules were originally formulated by ...

systematic nomenclature Chemical nomenclature is a set of rules to generate systematic names for chemical compounds. The nomenclature used most frequently worldwide is the one created and developed by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC). IUPAC ...

inorganic chemistry Inorganic chemistry deals with chemical synthesis, synthesis and behavior of inorganic compound, inorganic and organometallic chemistry, organometallic compounds. This field covers chemical compounds that are not carbon-based, which are the subj ...

. From the Latin for

nest A nest is a structure built for certain animals to hold Egg (biology), eggs or young. Although nests are most closely associated with birds, members of all classes of vertebrates and some invertebrates construct nests. They may be composed of ...

, see :Wiktionary:nido-.

People with the name

Chemistry

See also