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sulfide
[ suhl-fahyd, -fid ]
noun
- a compound of sulfur with a more electropositive element or, less often, a group.
sulfide
/ sŭl′fīd′ /
- A chemical compound of sulfur and another element or radical, such as hydrogen sulfide.
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Other Words From
- sub·sulfide noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of sulfide1
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Example Sentences
Their hydrogen sulfide plant blew a crater in the ground a year ago.
As the pupils of his eyes dilated he worked by touch, spreading a bit of powder on the end containing the special sulfide screen.
A man can live in a boiler factory or in a cubist art gallery, but he cannot live in a room containing hydrogen sulfide.
Or if hydrogen sulfide is mixed with the acetylene we may get thiophenes, which have sulfur in the ring.
The luminous watch dials consist of a coating of zinc sulfide under continual bombardment by the radium projectiles.
But there are two gases that he always remembers, chlorine and hydrogen sulfide.
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